This is an integrated research proposal composed of subjects in different fields, including environmental sciences (environmental medicine, environmental education and management of natural resources), health sciences (sports medicine and physical fitness) and psychological sciences (health psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive science and adolescent psychology. The investigators as well as the senior high-school teachers majoring natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, health and physical education) and counseling will develop two new science curriculato promote the physical and psychological health of senior high-school students.
The novel curricula will be devoted to environmental biopsycho-science and individual biopsycho-science respectively, in order for the students to apprehend, perform, experience and monitor the correlating factors of environment to individual in improving the self well-being. Theyare then expected to appreciate the holistic significance of such a health curriculum, and to realize that one of the major goals of science and technology is to promote human health.
This proposal will be conducted in three years including a main project and three sub-projects each year. The sub-project 1 is aimed to promote the PBL program, develop the curriculum of environmental biopsycho-science, to construct the content and experiment and to implement it into formal curriculum. The sub-project 2 is aimed to develop the curriculum of individual biopsycho-science, to construct the content, for the students to experience and to implement it into formal curriculum. The sub-project 3 is a meta-study of sub-projects 1 and 2 aiming to assess the contents, the experiment designs, the consequence of different teaching scenarios, the research validity and the outcome analysis of promoting such a curriculum.