Researches into the Flora of Wild Plants Growing on the Yards of Elementary Schools in Hyogo Prefecture

Abstract

This paper is a basic study for the purpose of developing module of botanical teaching materials concerned with familiar wild plants for elementary school science. We have researched into familiar wild plants which grow at elementary school yards in Hyogo. We devided the Hyogo prefecture into twenty three areas and chose one school per each area. We carried out a survey concerned with wild plants twice a year on spring and summer of 1982 there. The findings of this study are as following : (1) We confirm that sixteen kinds of wild plants are growing on all of twenty three selected elementary schools in Hyogo and twenty six kinds of them are also growing on eighty seven percent of these school yards (twenty schools of them). Under this view, we guess that these forty two kinds of wild plants also grow up on the other elementary schools in Hyogo. we think that many elementary schools in Hyogo are possible to use these kinds of familiar wild plants for developing module of botanical teaching materials. (2) Besides that, it is known that thirty four kinds of these forty two wild plants are distributed in ail parts of Japan. By this meaning, it is possible to use these thirty four kinds of familiar wild plants as a developed module of botanical teaching materials in various parts of Japan widely.