Using educational stations in science teaching to develop visual thinking And the pleasure of learning among primary school students

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Lecturer of Curricula and Methods of Teaching Science - Faculty of Education - Assiut University.

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The present research aimed at identifying the effectiveness of instructional stations in teaching science, on developing visual thinking and learning enjoyment among primary stage pupils. To achieve the research aims, the descriptive analytic and quasi experimental designs have been used. The present research depended on the two groups quasi experimental design. The materials and tools of research were; the teacher’s guide for teaching the selected lessons according to the instructional stations’ strategy, work sheets, visual thinking test, learning enjoyment scale. The research group consisted of 80 pupils divided into 40 experimental and 40 control groups enrolled in the second term of the school year 2018-2019.
The research proved the effectiveness of the instructional stations strategy in developing visual thinking and learning enjoyment among primary stage pupils through the following results:
 

The large effect of the strategy in developing the research variables (visual thinking and learning enjoyment.
There was a statistically significant difference at (0.01) between means of scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-testing of the visual thinking test as a whole and in each one of its dimensions favoring the experimental group.
There was a statistically significant difference at (0.01) between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-testing of the learning enjoyment scale as a whole and in each one of its dimensions favoring the experimental group.
There was a statistically significant correlation at (0.01) between the scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-testing of the visual thinking test and the learning enjoyment scale.

 
Based on the research results, the following recommendations have been reached: Attracting the attention of teachers to the necessity of achieving the learning enjoyment among students as it has a big role in increasing learning motivation among learners. Also, attracting attention to the importance of using the instructional stations’ strategy as it has a big role in achieving a lot of instructional results. Also, the results recommend the necessity of training science in-service teachers on the development of visual thinking skills and learning enjoyment through teaching science.

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