At Yamaguchi University, from August 2016th to 8th, 17, the schedule will be 20 nights and 3 days, with the main venue of the Faculty of Agriculture and Joint Veterinary Medicine as the main venue, and the 4 Science Leaders Camp "From Micro Cells to Macro Ecosystem". Visualization technology and analysis method to reach "is held.Twenty high school teachers and junior high school teachers who were recommended and applied from all over the country participated.
The Science Leaders Camp is part of the "Next Generation Human Resources Development Project," which is one of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's policies for enhancing science and mathematics education. ..The program proposed by the Faculty of Agriculture this time was also implemented as the final year of the three-year plan, following 2011 and 2014.
The purpose of the program is to experience the technology and analysis method of visualizing "nature" from different scales, and to relate it to agriculture covering food production science, life science, and environmental science, and to be aware of its application.
Participants are divided into 4 groups and experience the latest technology and biological images through not only lectures but also experimental training.In addition, Tsutomu Sasaki of Tottori Prefectural Tottori Nishi High School, who was a student in 2014, became a lecturer and devised a "visualization" as a keyword when attending the Science Leaders Camp. Introduced an example of class practice.
In the future, the Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University plans to provide various image and video contents owned by the Faculty of Agriculture so that camp participants can utilize them for classes.Furthermore, it is said that it will develop support and exchanges with science teachers, such as providing information on how the basic knowledge gained in junior high school and high school will be useful for applied research.
