- Associate professor
- Hiroyuki YAMASHITA
- Research Field
Science Education, Field Learning, Biology Education, Earth Science Education
- Keyword(s)
Teaching Material Development, Disaster Prevention, Quantitative Experiments
- Research theme
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- Development of model teaching materials that relate basic flow velocity principles and natural disasters
- Development of the instruction method to be introduced field learning into in earth science education
- Development of quantifiable teaching materials using optical methods, etc.
I am mainly researching the development of science teaching materials that can be used in educational sites. In elementary and junior high school science, especially in elementary school science experiments, most of them are qualitative experiments. For example, when investigating the properties of things that are “invisible” to the human eye, such as light and magnetic force, we use relative terms such as “bright” and “strong.” Even in qualitative experiments that rely on bodily sensations, we can “see” the nature of things. However, if we can compare this experience with numerical values such as “how bright” and “how strong”, we will be able to “see more” what we “see” until now. Experiments that compare numerically like this are called quantitative experiments. When we can “visualize” the properties of things with these educational materials, we are sure that the observer’s eyes will have a higher resolution and be moved by the wonder and charm of the natural world. We are conducting research on the development of teaching materials that can be “more visualized” in various fields of science education.

- Desired cooperation
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- Development of model teaching materials related to disaster prevention
- Development of educational programs to understand the morphology and structure of vertebrate bones
- Development of educational programs using self-made reflectometers, self-made specific polarimeters, self-made nephelometers, etc.