| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have conducted a questionnaire survey on teaching science at elementary school to students belonging to the department of Faculty of Education at 15 universities. The results show that the students have a problem not having the ability to think scientifically to understand the principles of science.The results also show that most of them are not confident to teach science at elementary school. In this research, we developed and evaluated a learning program for such students to acquire plain knowledge and skills through simple experiments for some specific themes of science. Our lessons consist of (1) instruction by lectures, (2) hands-on training of experiments, and (3) understanding of the results by lectures and discussion. As a result, the students acquired the sufficient understanding and skills necessary to teach scientific experiments, indicating that such lessons are useful to improve their ability.
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