Local wisdom also is taken into account in Thai science teaching and learning. Local people
may learn science based on the environment; climate, ecosystem, but also the influence of
religion, culture, and ethnicity influence the local way of life. Local wisdom has developed as
part of the development of local people. Integrating local wisdom to the class may allow the
learner to proudly display? his or her conceptual knowledge (Na thalang, 2001). Learning
science based on local wisdom may enhance students’ ability to investigate and explain scientific
knowledge behind that local wisdom. Pangvong (2007), for example, developed a science
learning unit using local wisdom through STS approach. Her unit allowed students to learn
science from local learning resources, cultural activities, local values, and by sharing knowledge
with village scholars who shaped scientific ideas from their experiences and knowledge
transmission from ancestors. Pangvong (2007) integrated local wisdom into her learning unit
about soil and its problems as illustrated in Table 1.