Professor Seiichi Numazawa of the Faculty of Education, Tokyo University of Social Welfare received the Encouragement Award at the "34th Learning Digital Teaching Material Contest" sponsored by the Learning Software Information Research Center.
The "Learning Digital Teaching Material Contest" aims to contribute to the utilization of digital devices in school education and the advancement of computerization of education.We are soliciting teachers, educators, and organizations for self-made digital teaching materials, homepages, teaching plans for classes using various digital teaching materials, and practical examples.Not only do we award excellent works, but we also introduce them to educators and make them available.
The title of the work of Professor Numazawa, who won the Encouragement Award, is "Water Journey (Development of teaching materials to capture the invisible flow of water and to understand it from the whole picture)".A PowerPoint teaching material intended for use in social studies in the 4th grade of elementary school, based on "Water Journey" announced by Professor Numazawa in 2016 (Sendai City Self-made Audiovisual Teaching Material Examination Committee Computer Software Division Excellence Award Winning Work) , Renewed to make it easier to understand.
The teaching material is to follow the flow of water starting from Kamafusa Dam (Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture).Many elementary schools have a tour of the structure and function of the water purification plant, but there is little opportunity to learn about other water flows, so Google's aerial photographs and terrain, photographs taken locally, and the Waterworks Bureau. By incorporating the results of interviews with the company, we have expanded the learning content, which tends to be fragmentary, from multiple perspectives so that we can grasp the overall picture.
Professor Numazawa said, "The flow of water is invisible, but it makes sense just to make people aware that it is flowing through water pipes. What we are doing in water and the work related to water. It is necessary to make the children aware that there are people who are doing this, and I think that will lead to the spirit of "let's take good care of water", "he said.
