2024 Volume 12 Pages 21-30
The purpose of this study is to develop learning materials for elementary school social studies using Google sites. In the middle grades of elementary school, the subject of learning is “local area.” However, in many schools, there is the present condition that community is not learned. Many teachers take the case studies published in textbooks as they are. One of the reasons for this is that the contents of the social studies supplementary readers are insufficient. It is difficult to learn about the region in local governments where the contents of social studies supplementary readers are insufficient or where there are no such books. Based on these problems, we developed learning materials for elementary school social studies using Google sites, taking the 3rd grade unit “Yamada Nishiki Story (Story of the rice for Japanese sake)” as an example, and analyzed class practices using learning materials.
