Construction of Physics Education Program based on Solar Activity Database and its Evaluation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00954
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• Principal Investigator: Yaji Kentaro 国立天文台, 太陽観測科学プロジェクト, 専門研究職員 (10399305)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 大山 政光 滋賀大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (80332716) ; 大朝 由美子 埼玉大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (10397820)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HANAOKA Yoichiro 国立天文台, 太陽天体プラズマ研究部, 准教授 (10238040) ; AGATA Hidehiko 国立天文台, 天文情報センター, 准教授 (30321582)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUMOTO Naoki 慶応義塾高等学校, 教諭 ; SAKAE Takashi 埼玉県立浦和西高等学校, 教諭 ; SUZUKI Daisuke 川口市立科学館, 主事 ; TSUJINO Taichi 元・JICA, 青年海外協力隊員 ; KAJITA Yasuo ICT, 岡山熱血リーダー
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 太陽 / 黒点 / 太陽活動 / データベース / 授業実践 / Hα線 / 国際比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research is aimed at development, practice and evaluation of physics education program which is available for universities, high schools and junior high schools on the basis of solar activity database accumulated at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Actually, we had practice with developed education programs and teaching materials at the schools and the science museums. After the practice, we surveyed effectiveness of the teaching materials. Saitama Univ. continued solar observation in white light and Halpha line and use the observation data for lectures and exercises of teacher training course. Shiga Univ. developed teaching materials with solar images and movies taken by satellites and had lessons for elementary schools and junior high schools. As the results, it was shown that the developed teaching materials enabled the students to deeply understand solar physics.

Free Research Field

太陽物理学, 天文教育