Comprehensive Study with the Theme of Velocity and Time

Compatibility of the programme in terms of children's understanding and validity of the principle to make the programme

Abstract

Comprehensive study was programmed on the subject of time and velocity to create a new relay race game different from the one which was made on the basis of a footrace game. This paper examined whether the programme aroused interests of children in the sixth year in elementary school in terms of their understanding toward the problem they had.
The results obtained were as follows:
1) The programme held appeal for the children and deepened their understanding.
2) The validity of our principle to draw up the programme was recognized.
3) To identify the experience of others with that of oneself at the stage of exchanging the outcome of problem solving, sharing the process to form the problem through experiences common to many children, worked effectively and was important to deepen understandings.
4) It was suggested that sharing the problem at the stage of forming problem caused feelings over reliance and gratitude to others and produced a fellow feeling.