The effectiveness of a Program based on Museum Education using the Blended Learning to develop the National Heritage Awareness and Learning Motivation for Prep stage students in history

Abstract

: The current study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a museum-based education program using Blended learning to develop awareness of the national heritage and motivation for learning in the history course of first-grade Prep students. On a sample of (42) pupils, the researcher used the analytical descriptive curriculum and the experimental approach with one group, and the researcher in the study used measurement tools consisting of measures of awareness of the national heritage in its three aspects (cognitive- behavioral - emotional), The driving measure of learning in the subject of history, and the measurement tools were applied tribally to the students research group, The researcher then taught the fourth and fifth unit of the history course for the first grade preparatory semester the first semester with a program based on the entrance to museum education using Blended learning, and then applied the measurement tools later on to the same group, The results of the research showed statistically significant differences between the average grades of pupils sampled in the tribal and remote applications of the measures of the national heritage Awareness and the measure of learning Motivation in favor of the remote application, In light of these results, the researcher recommends using the entrance to museum education with the Blended learning into the teaching of the history course to develop awareness of the national heritage and motivation for learning among middle school students.