Designing Scientific Practice Activities for Junior Students in Elementary School Aiming to Scientific Literacy: with a Project-based Learning Model

The scientific practice activity of elementary school students is an important form to cultivate young students' scientific literacy. Project-based learning, as a typical design model of interdisciplinary exploration activity, is highly compatible with the requirements and characters of the scientific practice activities. Therefore, based on the psychological rules of the junior students in elementary school, three design principles of scientific practice activities were put forward. Using the model of project-based learning, the design framework of scientific practice activity was also elaborated, which includes determining the theme, planning the activity process, building the evaluation system, and optimizing the design scheme. After that, the activity named “I make friends with vegetables” was presented as a case to show the systematic application of the design framework, and the key points and mistakes of the design work were summarized at the end.