Designing a Curriculum Model for Extracurricular Activities for Elementary School Students with Emphasis on Environmental Education

Asadzadeh, Somayeh; Seif Naraghi, Maryam; Naderi, Ezatollah; Ahghar, Ghodsi

doi:10.30473/ee.2020.6760

Designing a Curriculum Model for Extracurricular Activities for Elementary School Students with Emphasis on Environmental Education

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Professor, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30473/ee.2020.6760

Abstract

The present study aims to explain the elements of the extracurricular curriculum with emphasis on Environmental education for second-year elementary school students The research method is practical. Accordingly, by studying and reviewing the documents Curriculum of extracurricular activities in some countries a model for curriculum mined and validated by specialists and teachers of the second elementary school The statistical population of this study includes all curriculum specialists and teachers of the second elementary school of Miandoab city (35 specialists and 445 teachers). all the curriculum specialists of the curriculum selected by using Morgan 210 teacher table with simple random sampling.Data collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. Then for Data analysis descriptive statistical methods (frequency, frequency percentage) and inferential statistics (Chi-square test) were used. Research results showed more than 90% of the curriculum specialists and teachers have been confirmed goals, content, teaching-learning,g and evaluation strategies in the above model(P >.05).

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