Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Global
warming is the long term heating of Earth’s surface caused as a result of
natural or human activities primarily burning of fossil fuel, bush burning,
logging, and other anthropogenic processes as a result of population increase,
which result in increased emission of greenhouse gases such as, Carbon (iv)
Oxide, Nitrous oxide, Chlorofluorocarbons, Ozone, Methane, Sulphur oxide and so
on. Teaching and learning of global warming in secondary school is still very
unpopular. This study adopted a quasi-experimental design. This study explore
field trip and inquiry methods to teach global warming to 300 Chemistry
students drawn from 10 schools in Boki and Etung Local Government Areas in
Central Educational zone of Cross River State (150 students from each area of
study) by criterion reference sampling technique. The choice of these Local
Government Areas is based on the fact that activities that can result in global
warming are high in these areas. The students were selected by simple balloting
with replacement from a population of 3000 senior secondary (SSII) Chemistry
students in the area of study. The instrument used was a 20 item achievement
test tagged Global Warming Achievement Test (GWAT).The reliability of the
instrument which was tested with Cronbach Alpha gave a reliability of 0.68 which
indicates that the test was reliable. Students from Boki L.G.A were taught
using the field trip method, while those from Etung L.G.A were tutored using
Inquiry method. The methods of instruction were carried mainly in the forest
where activities of logging were prevalent for two weeks for each group
simultaneously with the help of Research Assistants. At the end of the teaching
session, a twenty (20) item achievement test, Global Warming Achievement Test
(GWAT) was given as post-test for one hour. The scripts were collected and
marked over 100%. The results were analysed using Analysis of covariance
(ANCOVA). The findings indicated no significant relationship between the
achievement scores of students taught with field trip and those taught without
field trip. The findings also showed no significant relationship between
achievement scores of students taught with inquiry method and those taught
without inquiry method. The findings however indicated no significant
interaction effects between male and female students when taught using the
teaching approaches. The study recommended among others, that hands-on and
practical teaching strategies to be introduced in the curriculum for effective
teaching and learning of global warming.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2024 pp. 100-110