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Ideological and Political Design and Practice of Hydrology and 
Water Resources Curriculum based on Blending Learning 

Jinfeng Wang, Wen Dai 

Liupanshui Normal University, School of Tourism and Historical Culture, Liupanshui, Guizhou, 
553004, China 

Abstract. Curriculum ideological and political is a breakthrough and new starting point for the 
establishment of morality in colleges and universities, and is an effective way to train socialist 
builders and successors. We mainly take the geographical science professional course "Hydrology 
and Water Resources" as an example, starting with the curriculum ideological and political design 
concept, design ideas, teaching implementation and effects, and discussing the strategy of 
developing curriculum ideological and political under the online and offline mixed teaching mode, 
and It analyzes the methods in detail and methods of integrating political identity, professional ethics, 
professional literacy, scientific exploration spirit, dialectical thinking, scientific and cultural literacy, 
environmental protection awareness and other ideological and political elements before, during and 
after class, and implements the goal of training geography teachers to achieve the purpose of 
educating people for the party and educating talents for the country. Through a questionnaire survey 
of the 2019 students of geographic science class, the result shows that the ideological and political 
design and practice of hydrology and water resources courses based on the online and offline hybrid 
teaching of Chaoxing Xuetong have been highly praised by the students. 

Keywords: Blending Learning; Hydrology and Water Resources; Curriculum Reform. 

1. Introduction 

Ideological and Political Courses refers to the formation of synergy between various courses and 

ideological and political theory courses in the form of building a whole staff, whole process and whole 

ideological and political education pattern. Its essence is to integrate ideological and political 

education into all links and aspects of curriculum teaching and reform, so as to achieve the goal of 

establishing moral integrity in cultivation[1]. Essentially speaking, its purpose is to realize morality 

and cultivate Curriculum ideological and political is a breakthrough and a new starting point for the 

establishment of morality in colleges and universities, and is an effective way to train socialist 

builders and successors. It is helpful to improve the comprehensive quality of students and promote 

the comprehensive development of students' morality, intelligence, physical education, and labor [2]. 

The main form of curriculum ideological and political education is to integrate the elements of 

ideological and political education into various courses, which will have a certain impact on students' 

ideology and behavior [3]. Ideological and political education includes not only the theoretical 

knowledge and political concepts of ideological and political education, but also ethics, values, 

ideological understanding and spiritual pursuits. In the view of this, colleges and universities should 

actively and deeply undertake this important responsibility and carry out ideological and political 

courses and curriculum ideological and political. In the course of professional course teaching, 

ideological and political elements are incorporated, and the correct concept of country, nation, history, 

and culture is subtly established in the hearts of contemporary students, so as to solve the problem of 

‘what kind of person to cultivate’ and ‘how to cultivate people’. 

Hydrology and water resources is a compulsory basic course for geography science majors, a 

preface course for soil geography and plant geography, and a core course for devoloping geography 

teachers in middle schools. Through this course, students will analyze the causes and effects of 

hydrological phenomena and retell the concepts of surface water, groundwater, precipitation, 

infiltration, water vapor transportation, evaporation, runoff, and water resources. They can use their 

own language to describe the mechanism of water cycle and flow generation, understand the frontiers 

of water science, be able to use the principle of water cycle to judge various hydrological phenomena, 



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analyze their influencing factors and their results, and be able to design questions about hydrological 

knowledge in middle school geography. Finally, let they form a correct teacher's professional ethics, 

have a scientific attitude that respects facts, strives for perfection, and is rigorous and realistic, and 

has the mission of geography education given to middle schools by the times. The course is rich in 

content and contains a large number of ideological and political elements, but the teaching hours are 

limited, and the majors are combined with liberal arts and sciences. The basic gap of students is too 

large, and students cannot carry out repeated learning of their own difficult knowledge and ideological 

and political elements. How to effectively carry out curriculum ideology and politics in the teaching 

process of hydrology and water resources is a brand-new topic before teachers. In the view of this, 

the authors propose the ideological and political course of hydrology and water resources based on 

blending learning, deeply excavates the ideological value and spiritual connotation contained in the 

professional knowledge system of hydrology and water resources, and scientifically and rationally 

expands the breadth, depth and temperature of the course. And they insist on establishing themselves 

by virtue, learning by virtue, and teaching by virtue, guiding students to establish a correct world 

outlook, outlook on life and values, focusing on strengthening the inheritance and innovation of 

Chinese excellent traditional culture, and cultivating morality, intelligence, physical education, and 

comprehensive services for the society. Developed talents train qualified builders and reliable 

successors for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.  

2. Ideological and Political Design Ideas 

2.1 Design Concept 

As the old saying goes, "Teachers preach and teach karma to solve puzzles." The primary purpose 

of teachers in educating students is to "preach", that is, to teach students the principles of life. Morality 

is the foundation of being a person. "Educating people" must first "educate morality". Ideological and 

political education is the work of being a person. It is necessary to pay attention to the organic unity 

of preaching, teaching, and cultivating talents, and comprehensively promote the curriculum 

ideological and political construction. Curriculum ideological and political is not a simple "course" 

plus "ideological and political" [4], the organic integration of professional knowledge and moral 

education content, mutual promotion and coordinated development, from the outside to the inside, 

from the near and far, and attracting people to the country’s feelings, ethics, values, ideological 

understanding, spiritual pursuit, The historical changes in the social system and the historical 

achievements of the country are naturally integrated into all aspects of the curriculum to achieve a 

quiet teaching effect. 

2.2 Design Ideas 

The ideological and political design of hydrology and water resources courses takes patriotism as 

the main line, and continuously optimizes the supply of ideological and political teaching content of 

the curriculum around key knowledge such as political identity, professional ethics, professional 

literacy, scientific exploration spirit, dialectical thinking, scientific and cultural literacy, and 

environmental awareness. The ideological and political design of the course utilizes information 

technology to make full use of online and offline carriers to integrate with each other, integrate the 

inside and outside of the classroom, and the obvious and hidden elements to naturally penetrate the 

ideological and political elements into all aspects of the curriculum, and generate emotional resonance 

and understanding with students, and realize the internal The teaching effect of turning to the heart, 

externalizing to the action, and moisturizing the things silently. Online integration of related subject 

development history, historical background, deeds of Chinese and foreign celebrities, examples or 

current events, actual cases, etc. into hydrology and water resources knowledge points, stimulate 

students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning, and continuously improve students' ability to discover 

and solve problems. Offline integrate online ideological and political content into classroom learning 

through positive education, finishing touches, discipline restraint, and implicit penetration [5], so as 



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to achieve the purpose of preaching, teaching and deciphering, educating people and cultivating 

talents through preaching and deeds. At the same time, it integrates materials containing ideological 

and political elements into homework, discussion and communication. When students read material 

analysis questions, discuss and speak, they subtly and naturally internalize ideological and political 

elements into students' exploration, thinking and comprehension. 

 
Fig 1. Incorporating curriculum ideology into the blending learning system 

3. Ideological and Political Implementation 

3.1 Pushing Online Ideological and Political Resources before Class 

According to the characteristics and advantages of geography disciplines, in-depth study of the 

educational goals of geography sciences, in-depth exploration of the ideological value and spiritual 

connotation contained in the hydrology and water resources courses, and scientifically and rationally 



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expand the breadth, depth and depth of the hydrology and water resources courses temperature. By 

analyzing the support of hydrology and water resources courses to the graduation requirements of 

geography sciences, summarizing and refining the goals of hydrology and water resources courses, 

combining quality goals, selecting content and ideological materials that meet the ideological and 

political content of online teaching courses from the teaching content. 

 

Table 1. The main content and ideological and political integration points of hydrology and water 

resources course 

Serial 

number 

Course 

Contents 

Ideological and political 

integration point 

Material 

presentation 

form 

1 
The history of the 

discipline 

My country’s great water conservancy project Du 

jiangyan, the design and construction of this project 

fully demonstrated the wisdom and foresight of the 

ancient people of our country, and cultivated students’ 

sense of national identity, sense of responsibility, 

historical self-confidence and patriotism. 

Video 

2 

Distribution of 

water and water 

resources on the 

earth 

By telling the total amount of water resources in 

our country, the characteristics of temporal and spatial 

distribution, and the main problems, students are trained 

to gradually form a sense of social responsibility and 

mission to save water and protect water resources, and 

promote water conservation and protection of water 

resources for the whole people. 

Tell 

3 

Rivers, water 

systems and 

watersheds 

The "Talking about the Yangtze River" video 

shows the deep and vast Yangtze River and the 

unremitting perseverance of the scientific research 

personnel to explore the true source of the Yangtze 

River, cultivate students' scientific spirit of lofty 

ambition and the pursuit of true knowledge, and inspire 

students' sense of science and technology to serve the 

country and their mission. 

Video 

4 

The hydrological 

situation of the 

river 

The advanced deeds of flood fighting and disaster 

relief in 1998 in the Yangtze River Basin guided 

students to intuitively experience the occurrence and 

development of floods, grasp the essence of flood 

fighting spirit, and inspire students to carry forward the 

spirit of responsibility and dedication. 

Case 

5 
Overview of the 

water cycle 

“Discuss whether water resources are 

inexhaustible”, “Discuss the rationality of introducing 

Bohai into Xinjiang” and other topics, train students to 

use Marxist dialectical principles to develop multi-

dimensional thinking, analyze the versatility of things, 

and cultivate the future The overall view of decision 

makers. 

Discuss 

6 Run-off 

"Discuss the impact of human activities on runoff, 

especially the impact of urbanization on runoff and peak 

flow", exercise students' divergent thinking, train 

students to have the ability to integrate and apply 

knowledge, and to take a comprehensive view of 

problems and the sense of ownership of scientific 

decision-making. Have a global view of future decision 

makers. 

Case 

7 
Lakes, swamps and 

glaciers 

A systematic introduction to the current situation, 

causes and hazards of the ecological environment of 

lakes and swamps in my country, as well as the 

countermeasures of ecological environmental protection 

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and restoration, to guide students to have a deep 

understanding of the profound significance of the 

thoughts on ecological civilization construction since 

the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of 

China, and to have a deep understanding and 

understanding of General Secretary Xi Jinping The 

profound meaning of the theory of "green water and 

green mountains are also golden mountains and silver 

mountains" actively cultivates the concept of ecological 

civilization of students. 

8 

Distribution and 

classification of 

oceans 

"Caring for the ocean like life", "caring for the 

ocean, knowing the ocean, and managing the ocean", 

"developing ocean economy and ocean scientific 

research", "building a powerful modern navy", 

"community with a shared future for the ocean" and 

other "sea spirit" Encourage students, train them to learn 

and love the sea, and inspire students to shoulder the 

mission of building a maritime power. 

Classic 

quotations 

9 

Type of 

groundwater 

 

The positive and negative heads of confined water and 

whether the Baotu Spring of Jinan is discharged in the 

form of fountains, guide students to understand the 

professional knowledge of the characteristics of 

confined water, stimulate students' love for my country's 

great rivers and mountains, and cultivate students' 

understanding of resource regulation The necessity. 

Case 

10 
Water resources 

and water quality 

Establish and practice the concept that green waters and 

green mountains are golden mountains and silver 

the harmonious coexistence of mountains, adhere to 

man and nature, adhere to the path of peaceful 

development, and promote the construction of a 

community with a shared future for mankind 

Literature 

 

Online teaching uses virtual space as the carrier, and the middle circle focuses on the third 

classroom of network ideological and political. Through online education, we can realize the linkage 

education with the offline first classroom, and promote the "dual improvement" of students' 

ideological and professional qualities. Hydrology and water resources courses rely on the Chaoxing 

learning platform to build an online and offline hybrid teaching system. And according to the course 

syllabus and course teaching progress, the learning resources closely related to hydrology and water 

resources knowledge points are released before class (Table 1). Mainly in the form of videos, 

narrations, cases, discussions, literature, classic quotations to stimulate students' interest in learning, 

actively think, and expand reading. In the process of self-learning before class, he is deeply affected 

by ideological and political influence, so as to cultivate professional talents in the basic research and 

teaching of geography science with the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, 

physical education, art and labor for the society. 

3.2 Ideological and Political Integration in the Curriculum 

Based on the opinions of group discussions, exchanges, and speeches in class, students use the 

discussion area of Chaoxing Learning Communication Platform to express their personal feelings or 

thoughts, supplement materials related to ideological and political content, and conduct re-learning 

and re-discussions. For example, when studying the overview of the water cycle, students in the pre-

class class completed discussions, exchanges, and speeches on topics such as "discussing whether 

water resources are inexhaustible" and "discussing the rationality of introducing Bohai into Xinjiang". 

After class, apart from sharing my thoughts and insights on Marxist dialectical principles, I can also 

discuss the question "From the perspective of water pollution speed exceeding the purification load, 



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do you think water can be fully regenerated?" These questions can guide students to explore the 

advantages and disadvantages of weighing the pros and cons, and make the most advantageous 

strategic choices, so as to inspire students to attach importance to dialectical thinking. At the same 

time, they are required to be good at dealing with the relationship between local and overall, current 

and long-term, key and non-key points, use dialectical thinking to grasp strategic planning, and 

consciously adhere to and use dialectical materialist world outlook and methodology. Through the 

online and offline hybrid teaching model, ideological and political education is naturally and 

effectively integrated into classroom teaching, making the education system more scientific, three-

dimensional and concrete. 

4. Implementation Effect 

Ideological and political education is an innovation with rich connotation and lofty intention, 

which integrates the factors of ideological and political education into the curriculum, enriches the 

connotation of professional courses, excavates its educational value and expands its educational and 

teaching functions [6].In order to understand the effect of the ideological and political implementation 

of the curriculum, for the ideological and political design and implementation of the hydrology and 

water resources curriculum, the questionnaire is used to find out the students’ Political identity, 

professional ethics, professional literacy, scientific exploration spirit, dialectical thinking, scientific 

and cultural literacy, environmental awareness and other aspects of education under the hybrid 

teaching mode. According to the five-level scoring standard, students have achieved good results in 

political identity, professional ethics, professional literacy, scientific exploration spirit, dialectical 

thinking, scientific and cultural literacy, and environmental awareness. Among them, 87% of students 

believe that political identity, professional ethics, dialectical thinking, and environmental awareness 

have a greater impact. It shows that the ideological and political design and practice of hydrology and 

water resources courses based on the online and offline hybrid teaching of Chaoxing Learning 

Communication have been highly evaluated and widely praised by the 2019 students of Geography. 

In addition, since the national, provincial, and school launching first-class courses, hydrology and 

water resources have been approved and completed for school-level excellent courses, and at the same 

time, they have been approved and completed for provincial-level first-class courses. In 2021, it is 

proposed to be recommended to apply for the country's second batch of online and offline mixed first-

class courses. After the evaluation by the school supervisors, the enlightening teachers and students 

of the hydrology and water resources courses, the integration of the course ideology and politics into 

nature, and the active and in-depth classroom discussions were highly praised by the supervisors and 

left a deep impression. The course team won the first prize and the second prize of the school-level 

young teacher science and engineering group teaching competition once. 

The students majoring in geography science bear the heavy burden of geography teaching in 

middle school. In the process of undergraduate study in colleges and universities, college teachers 

should master the design and implementation of ideology and politics, and have the awareness and 

ability of " ideology and politics". In different teaching environments, they use different teaching 

methods and correctly guide students to establish a correct world outlook, values and outlook on life. 

The teaching of hydrology and water resources courses is based on understanding the requirements 

of teacher professional certification, and further explores the ideological and political education 

resources of the course in the course construction. This course combines curriculum professional 

knowledge with ideological and political elements, and explores the combination of teaching content 

and ideological and political elements. In terms of teaching methods and means, reform methods are 

proposed, and teaching and educating people are put into the main channel of classroom teaching to 

provide references for the ideological and political education of geography science major courses. 



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Acknowledgments 

This study was supported by the Guizhou teaching content and curriculum system reform project 

(2020187) and Undergraduate teaching engineering project of Liupanshui Normal University (lpss 

yjxtd201805). 

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