Abstract
The purpose of this study is to show daily activities of traditional life, and to clarify educational functions of these activities. We investigated daily activities, and deliberated educational functions of each activity. As results, we classified them into three categories. 1) Senses: Children trained their senses such as sense of touch or hearing through play. They recognize the environment of water front area, and felt they exist here. 2) Sensibility, Consciousness and Sense of value: While they feared water through floods and drowning accidents, they did thanks water that brought abundant harvest through traditional religion and so on. In addition, they were conscious of a connection of the people through each role play about maintenance activities of creeks. And they had a strong sense of responsibility as a member of community through the use and maintenance of water front area. 3) Knowledge and Skill: They recognized, understood, and reacted various characters of water front area through maintenance activities, and play. There were chain processes such as one activity occurs another activity. These daily activities of traditional life in the creek settlements include wisdom or experiences about co-existence between human and water front nature, which play the great role in environmental education for people of today.
