A Study on the Utility Status of School Biotope and the Teachers’ Consciousness:

From the Questionnaire Survey of Elementary Schools with School Biotope in Kobe

Abstract

School biotope in elementary school has been paid attention from the viewpoint of environmental education and nature reservation in Japan. In this study, the auther investigated how to make and maintain school biotope and the teachers’ consciousness of school biotope in Kobe where the number of making school biotopes is a lot. As a result, a pond is established in elementary school for environmental education under the name of school biotope and curriculums in school biotopes are concentrated in observation of creatures in most cases. In addition, the teachers’ eagerness is enhanced by the following consciousness that school biotope is useful for ecosystem, and the consciousness is related with the number of various biotope components that each school has. Finally, I propose the direction for school biotope in the elementary school.