2023 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 155-162
This study is a practical research on the “Mechanism of Combustion” in the sixth grade of elementary school. By reading a section of Faraday’s “The Chemical History of a Candle”, children were able to understand “the formation of carbon dioxide by the bond between carbon and oxygen”. The three times reading method, so-called SANDOKU-HOU (Ishiyama, 1991), was utilized for interpretive reading the scientific documents , they could discover the proposition as the scientific problems in the text. Furthermore, the children were able to read the theory, the experimental method, and the results obtained, making the experiment significant and meaningful to them. The success of the experiment ensured that the children read the texts and attained understanding of the target concepts. The introduction of the particle model aided the reading of the text because it evoked the image of a “bond between carbon and oxygen”. The children conducted the experiments on the main content of the text, but the teacher demonstrated the experiments on the supplementary content, which allowed for the class to be taught expediently, within the standard time frame of the unit. Children were thus able to successfully understand “the bond between carbon and oxygen” through the reading of a Science text.
