2020 Volume 61 Issue 2 Pages 287-297
In elementary school safety instruction, “It is necessary to acquire the ability to evaluate the situation adequately, to consider what is required to realize a safe life, to collect essential information, and to make appropriate decisions and act (thinking, judgment, and According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT)).” For this study, we developed a science teaching material in line with this aim to systematize school safety in science classes. The teaching material was developed assuming a disaster caused by heavy rain, the lesson was implemented in the fifth-grade unit, “Working of flowing water and change of the land,” and its educational effects were examined. The results of the practice revealed that, based on the acquired knowledge and skills related to natural disasters, and through lively discussion activities utilizing the teaching material, the students could appropriately evaluate their own safety situation and confirm necessary information, to prudently select their own actions. Additionally, it was suggested that knowledge-based situation judgment and discussion are indispensable for proper consensus building for action selection.
