2010 Volume 58 Issue 3 Pages 15-26
Distributions of traffic accidents form some spatial patterns that are strongly reflected by movement patterns of people and cars, relating to geographic aspects of place of each district in city. This article proposes the usefulness of traffic accident as teaching materials of geographic education in junior high school, because students will be able to develop their geographic thinking by analyzing several relationships between the spatial pattern of traffic accidents and the geographic aspect of place, and also they will develop their geographic skills by experiencing field observation at their school district and using various maps and statistics of traffic accidents. An example of geographic research activity in junior high school locating at a suburban area in Osaka Prefecture is presented with the teaching design table of estimated time of ten class periods, constituting of lesson objects, students activities and some examples of maps and statistics.
