Application of materials for Environmental Education incorporating the concept of life cycle thinking in Period for Inquiry-Based Cross-Disciplinary Study

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K12365
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 64060:Environmental policy and social systems-related
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: Matsumoto Shinya 横浜国立大学, 大学院環境情報研究院, 教授 (50345469)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: ライフサイクル思考 / 総合的な探究の時間 / 課題設定指導 / 教員研修 / 日常生活 / 環境教育 / SDGs

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we developed a training program and teaching materials for high school teachers to use the concept of life cycle thinking to instruct students when they set their research questions in the period for inquiry-based cross-disciplinary study in Japan. A training program was constructed using teaching materials such as lectures, games, and group work. These materials were prepared based on the related teaching materials that are already being used in life cycle thinking-based environmental education. The developed program was implemented for high school teachers. Additionally, the opinions and requests from the training participants were reflected to expand this project into writing a book on the relationship between the life cycles of foods and products in daily lives, and global warming and SDGs in order to practically support teachers in their instruction on research question setting of students in inquiry-based learning.

Free Research Field

環境教育、機能性色素化学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

教員研修の受講者から、新しい学習指導要領の象徴的な教科である総合的な探究の時間の探究課題設定の指導に、身近な製品や食品などのライフサイクル思考が資するとの評価を得たことは、本課題の社会的意義を示す結果である。更に今後、ライフサイクル思考を活用した探究課題の指導方法や具体的な事例を提示した書籍の刊行により、この概念を参考にする教員の増加から俯瞰的視野を持つ生徒の増加に結び付くことで、本課題の成果が拡がることを期待する。