Developing Educational Materials for Sustainable Development and to foster Attitude toward Science in Secondary Education

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1 Development, revision and practice of educational materialsTaking aim of education for sustainable development as pursuing to improve the quality of life, we established a framework with three objectives : to understand the duality of benefits and risks of science and technology, to have positive thinking about science and technology through knowing the efforts of scientists and engineers, and to show a willingness to make judgments and decisions and to be active about scientific and technological issues. We found it is possible to implement the Electricity material, included a lot of illustrations and figures, using various teaching styles as three students played three characters and all students read lines together. The students' descriptions of their impressions written in the study history sheets showed they learned the objectives defined in the framework, because the contents related to each objective were written in them. We had the opportunities to practice the Air Pollution material English version in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. The students tackled it faithfully. We found the teachers did not use some teaching methods included the material, for example investigation activities, and it was necessary to discuss the teaching method sufficiently before implementing the material.2 Practices of one page portfolio assessmentWe made the study history sheets based on one page portfolio assessment and used them as the method to assess the educational materials we developed. The students' descriptions of their impressions written after learning the educational materials showed favorable reactions to the materials as well as to science and technology. We developed and practiced twelve check points to make summaries. We found the contents and the methods they wrote have changed large if you gave them the time to think how to make summaries and to be taught it.