The development of the biological science curriculum for the 21st century

在现代科学中，生物学的进步是非常显著的，人们说21世纪是生命科学的时代。特别是对生命之源基因的研究有了显著的进展。随着基因分析的深入，人们发现大多数生命活动，如形态建成和生理现象，都依赖于基因的功能。另一方面，随着遗传学的发展，遗传操作技术也在不断完善.本研究的目的在于发展适合未来时代的生物整合课程，并探讨生物整合课程的发展趋势。2004年，我们调查了小学生对遗传现象和发育机制的认识，目的是探讨如何在小学科学的“生物与环境”学习中引入基因功能和基因的一般概念。2005年在小学五年级生命延续的学习过程中，我们实施了一些实践课程，目的是介绍基因和基因在受精中的作用以及花粉在授粉中的作用。儿童对有关遗传和信息的描述率从10%迅速上升到80%。我们认为小学五年级的孩子可以理解生物体的形态在受精或授粉过程中由父母传给孩子的信息。

The progress of biology is very remarkable during the modern science and they say 21 centuries is the age of life science. Specially, the research on the gene, which is the draft of the life, remarkably improves. As analysis about gene progressed, it was found that most of the, life activities, such as morphogenesis and physiological phenomenon, were depended on the function of the gene. On the other hand, the genetic operation technology improved as proceedings of genetics. It became possible that a gene that was not included in the species originally, was inserted into it. New industries, related the genetic modified food and so on, are developed rapidly as the applications of the research of gene.This study aims at the development of the integrative biology curriculum that is suitable for the future age. We investigated recognitions of schoolchildren about the genetic phenomena and the mechanism of development, in 2004, for the purpose of examining how to introduce the gene functions and the general idea of gene on the study of "Organisms and the Environment" in the elementary school science. We enforced some practical classes in 2005, with a purpose of introducing gene and the gene function through the sperm in the fertilization and pollen function in the pollination, in the course of learning of the continuity of the life at the fifth grade in the elementary school. The rates of the children who did the description that related to the heredity and the information increased rapidly from 10% to 80%. We thought the children at the fifth grade in the elementary school could understand the information that the morphology of organisms were taken over by parents to the children in the process of the fertilization or pollination.