NTNU Campus Tour Activity

After participant students received the pre-test and the orientation for the NTNU Campus Tour activity (Figure 11(A)), students were randomly arranged into groups of six, totally five groups. Each student carried an iPod which was already equipped with the NTNU Campus Tour application downloaded from Apple APP store as mobile

device as well as each group also had one iPad for group discussion. There were five challenge stations in the activity, each group started from different stations and kept going on in orders shown in Figure 10. Students found the location of their challenge station via GPS. Arrived at the challenge station, they first read the information about the building or landmark of this station (Figure 11(B)), and then they had to find out the target item to recognize (Figure 11(C)). After successfully recognized the target item, the scientific knowledge pop up, students should carefully read it and obtain the knowledge (Figure 11(D)).

Besides, there was one instructor in each station. All the instructors were graduate students from the Graduate Institute of Science Education in National Taiwan Normal University. Instructors were requested to stay at each challenge station and assist students in finding out the target item as well as accomplished challenge activity (Appendix III). After students read the pop-up scientific knowledge of the target item, the instructor notified students of the challenge activity. When students successfully complete the activity (Figure 11(E)), they won a prize and record in main picture in the application (Figure 11(F)). Then, students could move to next challenge station to complete the whole activity.

Figure 10: The Order of Five Challenge Stations.

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(F)

Figure 11: The process of the Activity in One Challenge Station.

There were five challenge stations in the NTNU Campus Tour activity Each challenge station had one target item, and each target item accompanied scientific knowledge and one challenge activity. Here the five challenge stations, target items, scientific knowledge, and challenge activities are described in detail in the following text and also summarized in Table 3:

(1) Science Education Building

 Challenge station (building/landmark): Science Education Building.

 Campus guide: The introduction of the Graduate Institute of science Education. (Appendix IV)

 Target item: Granite.

 Scientific knowledge: The knowledge of granite. (Appendix V)

 Challenge activity: Students should drop some waters on the burnished granite, non-burnished granite and brick to observe the permeability.

 Learning objectives: Students are able to describe one feature of the granite and the reason that granite is a good architecture material.

 Teaching objectives: Let students understand the definition of permeability and are able to recognize the permeability feature which is a good architecture material of granite via the permeability experiment.

(2) General Hall

 Challenge station (building/landmark): General Hall.

 Campus guide: The introduction of the demonstration of rainwater harvesting and recycling system. (Appendix VI)

 Target item: Hoop Pine.

 Scientific knowledge: The knowledge of Hoop Pine. (Appendix VII)

 Challenge activity: Students should observe the shape of Hoop Pine seed and deduce the way how the seed dispersal.

 Learning objectives: Students are able to list the characteristics of Hoop Pine seed and describe the way how the Hoop Pine seed dispersal.

 Teaching objectives: Let students observe the shape of Hope Pine seed and understand the way how the seed dispersal by searching the information via wireless network on the mobile device.

(3) Security Room

 Challenge station (building/landmark): Security Room.

 Campus guide: The introduction of National Taiwan Normal University.

(Appendix VIII)

 Target item: Brick tile.

 Scientific knowledge: The knowledge of the brick tile. (Appendix IX)

 Challenge activity: Students should discuss the differentiations of natural and man-made architecture materials.

 Learning objectives: Students are able to list the features of natural and man-made architecture material and differentiate them.

 Teaching objectives: Let students express their viewpoints of this topic after they searched the information via Internet and had a group discussion (collaborative learning).

(4) Field and Track

 Challenge station (building/landmark): Field and Track.

 Campus guide: The introduction of the Department of Athletic Performance. (Appendix X)

 Target item: PU (polyurethane) track.

 Scientific knowledge: The knowledge of PU (polyurethane) track.

(Appendix XI)

 Challenge activity: Students had a game here. They had to use three puzzle foam floor mats to move forward in a distance; in the process, students’ feet could not leave the puzzle foam floor mats.

 Learning objectives: Students are able to solve problems via team work.

 Teaching objectives: Let students solve problems collaboratively by having a game.

(5) Europe Park

 Challenge station (building/landmark): Europe Park.

 Campus guide: The introduction of Europe Park. (Appendix XII)

 Target item: Serpentinite.

 Scientific knowledge: The knowledge of serpentinite. (Appendix XIII)

 Challenge activity: Students should take five pictures of different animals or plants in Europe Park.

 Learning objectives: Students are able to record when they are doing observation.

 Teaching objectives: Let students record their finding by operating the camera on the mobile device.

Table 3: The Contents of Each Challenge Station.

Station Building/landmark Guide Target item Scientific knowledge Challenge activity

1 Science Education Building

5 Europe Park The introduction of

Europe Park

During the whole activity, each student carried one iPod and each group also had one iPad. Students are able to freely use any functions on the iPod and iPad such as take notes, take pictures, surf the Internet and so on. The screen of iPad is larger than iPod which is much easier for students doing group discussion. The whole process of the NTNU Campus Tour activity is shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12: The Process of the NTNU Campus Tour activity.