Scientific literacy refers to the scientific concepts and processes needed to understand and make personal decisions, participate in civil and cultural affairs and engage in economic production. The most basic meaning of scientific literacy means that students can reasonably apply what they have learned to social and personal life. The basic task of science education is to cultivate students' necessary and sustainable scientific literacy. Life science is a part of science, so the basic task of biology education is to cultivate and improve students' biological science literacy. Biology teachers should strive to make all students have the opportunity to become people with good scientific literacy after studying this course. Through the study of biology, students are expected to develop in the following four aspects:
1. Scientific attitude and scientific world outlook: Scientific attitude refers to people's scientific beliefs and habits based on their correct understanding of scientific knowledge and understanding of scientific development, including curiosity, honesty (seeking truth from facts), cooperation and creativity (independent thinking and creative learning). The scientific world outlook embodies some basic beliefs and attitudes of scientists towards science, including: first, thinking that the world can be known; Second, scientific knowledge is constantly changing; Third, the subject of scientific knowledge has continuity and stability; Fourth, science cannot provide all the answers.
Second, the methods and skills of scientific inquiry:
1, scientific inquiry is not only the methods and skills of scientists.
If a student has personally experienced scientific inquiry activities during his study at school, he may be deeply impressed by biology when he leaves school. The new junior high school biology curriculum standard experimental textbooks all have some inquiry experiments on given topics, which can help students understand the nature of scientific inquiry well. When participating in inquiry, students should master the general skills of scientific inquiry, including the ability to ask questions, make assumptions, make plans, collect evidence, draw conclusions, express and communicate. Scientific inquiry is more important in the process than in the result. The real intention of students' inquiry is not only to master the biological knowledge itself, but more importantly, to let students learn the general methods of scientific inquiry, so that they can personally understand how scientists are confused about the problem, how to assume the "answer" of the problem, and consider ways to solve the problem, so as to gradually develop the attitude, method and thinking quality of inquiry.
2. Scientific thinking mode includes formal logical thinking, dialectical logical thinking, critical thinking and divergent thinking.
Third, science, technology and society (STS): Biology courses educate students with STS, aiming at highlighting the relationship between science, technology and society, that is, the starting point of education and teaching content is not limited to scientific knowledge itself, but also emphasizes the relationship between them.
Biological knowledge and skills: Biological knowledge includes basic biological concepts, principles and laws. It is also one of the basic tasks of biology curriculum to let students master certain biological knowledge. In the junior middle school stage of compulsory education, students should obtain the basic facts, principles and laws about biological structure, life activities, biology and environment, biological evolution and biotechnology, and have a general understanding of the whole picture of biology. Biology course should give students an opportunity to understand the progress of modern biology and the impact of modern biotechnology on human society and people's lives, which includes both positive and negative effects. It is another important goal in the field of knowledge to let students use the knowledge and methods they have learned to solve the problems around them in research study or practical activities, so that students can have the ability to use knowledge.