Hands-on learning for young people who supports geophysical exploration

Abstract

Although it is necessary to develop new theories and techniques to progress the geophysical exploration, it is also important to develop human resources. Young people who do not stick a past are necessary in order to produce techniques with new idea and epoch-making geophysical explorations. At present, young people tend to keep their distance from the science and technology. It is an important problem to foster the human resources who supports future geophysical exploration, so that advertising the interest of geophysical exploration to young people, especially schoolchildren, is our immediate need. In Akita University, the hands-on learning has been carried out in order to cultivate young people. Understanding the principles is not a last goal in our hands-on learning; the purpose is to demonstrate how actually the equipment they made reacts to the target. The hands-on learning in Akita University clearly showed that the simple exploration devices were effective for the training of the geophysical exploration.