2022 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 1-4
To promote the fire context-based science education, the author is developing two kinds of web-based learning materials. The first material is designed for the 6th grade elementary school students to give fundamental knowledge of the thermal radiation from hot matter and the thermal decomposition of paper, aiming for preventing fires caused by daily-use electricity such as electric space heaters and incandescent filament lamps. The second material is designed for high school chemistry learners to give fundamental knowledge of the reactivity difference between esters and hydrocarbons, aiming for preventing fires caused by daily-use combustibles such as cooking oils and petroleum products. The present paper reports some tentative contents for those materials, and suggests ideas for the use of the materials to enrich students’ understanding of energy concept in the unit “Use of Electricity” of the 6th grade elementary school science and the unit “Properties of Organic Compounds” of high school chemistry.
