Estimation and Proposal Concerning Life Environmtnt By Means of the Use of the Five Senses' Icons by Elementary School Children

- Comparison between Third and Fourth Graders -

Abstract

This paper aims to consider the environmental proposition regarding the change from the third grader to the fourth grader concerning life environments. The method can be categorized into two stages, the first being the conduction of the questionnaire and workshop, organized as follows “attempt to research”, “attempt to encode”, “attempt to survey”, “attempt to propose” and “attempt to criticize”, the second being the comparison of the tendency about the result data. According to the analysis, when a school year changes from the third into the fourth grader, the child tends to recognize the allover space similar to a bird's eye view and tends to estimate it objectively. However, there is no difference about icons' type in the proposal phase, and the five senses are maintained.