Development of a Hands-on Activity Task to Design a Sustainable Marine city for the 2022 Revised Middle School Technology Curriculum

The purpose of this study is to develop a hands-on activity Task for designing a sustainable marine city for the content area of ​‘sustainable technology and convergence’ in the revised 2022 middle school technology curriculum, and to enable students to develop the ability to respond to future environments that have changed due to climate and ecological changes. In this study, hands-on activity tasks were developed based on educational needs analysis, including literature review related to sustainable development and marine cities and analysis of the 2022 revised middle school technology curriculum. The hands-on activity tasks were revised through expert validity test and field testing. The developed hands-on activity task consisted of a total of 9 periods and are composed of a lesson plan, teaching materials, and portfolios for students. The developed hands-on activity task in this study were applied to the middle school and the results of a survey on student satisfaction showed that the icogram designer was suitable as a design tool, and the learning materials developed in this study were helpful in students understand the concept of sustainable development and the elements necessary for designing marine cities. In addition, the hands-on activity task developed in this study provided students with the experience of designing a marine city and the opportunity to learn about the infrastructure and environmental protection of a marine city.