THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GUIDED INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITY PACKAGE FOR PROMOTING THE INTEGRATED SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING OF GRADE 5 STUDENT

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were 1) to develop the Guided Inquiry-Based Activity Pack for promoting science process skills, scientific reasoning, and learning achievement of Prathomsuksa 5 students, and 2) to study the results of using the activity package. The sample group were 46 Prathomsuksa 5 students at a private school in Bangkok through cluster random sampling. The pre-experimental research was used in this research. The Inquiry-Based Activity Package included booklet for teacher and students, five lesson plans about “Change of substance” concept and tests. The statistics used in the study were percentage, the mean and standard deviation. t-test for Dependent Sample and t-test for One-Sample was used in hypothesis testing. The results showed that 1) all components of the developed Inquiry-Based Activity Package are in high quality based on the assessment of the experts at the most appropriate level. 2) The students’ science process skills, scientific reasoning, and learning achievement mean scores, in overall and each component, after implementing the activity package were higher than the ability before implementation with a statistical significance of .01 level. When compared the scores after implementing the activity set with the criteria at 70%, there is only the science achievement scores passed the criteria with statistical significance at the .01 level, while the students’ science process skills and scientific reasoning scores were less than the determined criteria with statistical significance of .01 level.