Practical Learning of Science for Elementary School Students via Programming and Control Experimentation

Authors
Yoshihiro Ohnishi1, *, Takeshi Nakano2, Teruyuki Tamai1, Shinnosuke Mori1, Kazuo Kawada3
1Faculty of Education, Ehime University, 3, Bunkyocho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
2Ohzu Elementary School, 711, Ohzu, Ehime 795-0012, Japan
3Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Yoshihiro Ohnishi
Received 9 November 2019, Accepted 22 October 2020, Available Online 28 December 2020.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.201215.012
Keywords
Programming; teaching material; temperature control
Abstract
In Japan, it has been decided that programming education will be required in elementary schools from 2020. In the new study guidelines, new programming subjects will not be established, but programming will be handled within existing subjects such as mathematics and science. Therefore, it is desirable to conduct independent research by analyzing information with programming related to existing subjects. Based on the above, we developed a teaching material on temperature control programming that uses heat generated by heating wire in the unit of “Use of electricity” in the 6th-grade elementary school. In this paper, after considering the index of the control performance, teaching materials using temperature control are introduced.
Copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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