2012 Volume 52 Issue 3 Pages 77-87
There have been no empirical researches discussing the changes of school student consciousness by breeding and observing both insects with and without the pupal stage from the egg stage to the adult stage. Therefore, in this research, we selected emma crickets "Teleogryllus emma" as the non-pupal insect and white cabbage butterflies "Pieris rapae crucivora" as the pupal insect. By breeding and observing these two species at once, we conducted analysis and speculation based on the results from the student comments, observation records and questionnaire researches. As a result, changes of viewpoint and consciousness to creatures were found among the students in the processes during breeding and observing. Also, as it was clarified that the variation of scores was found insect by insect in the aspects of school student's affection and learning enthusiasm, the educational effectiveness through that experiment was not necessarily the same. We discussed the meaning of breeding and observing emma crickets by using the knowledge of this research. Then, we found that the students could become kinder to creatures and additionally recognize their own consciousness changes by themselves.
