Verification of effect of the Fast Plants as a teaching material in science classes of elemenntary school or junior high school.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23501009
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Kanazawa University
Principal Investigator	YAKURA KIMITAKA 金沢大学, 学校教育系, 教授 (50166485)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	ファストプランツ / 植物教材 / 植物の観察・実験 / 植物の生活環 / 授業実践 / 授粉 / 結実 / 植物の教材 / 種子の発芽・生長条件
Research Abstract	The goal of this study is to verify that the Fast Plants, known as a variety of Cruciferae(Brassica rapa) with extremely short life cycle, is an effective teaching material for science classes of elemenntary school and junior high school. In two science classes of the 5th grade of an elementary school, students carried out seeding, cultivating and gathering the seeds of the Fast Plants. Almost every students could treat and observe the plant through its life cycle easily within a scheduled period, indicatiing that the Fast Plants is an effective teaching material for the science class of elementary school.