2025 Volume 66 Issue 1 Pages 137-145
In this study, we created original digital content through collaboration between the museum and a startup company, and delivered them to all sixth-grade elementary school students in Toyohashi City, utilizing the content as teaching materials during class visits. The effectiveness and usefulness of the content was examined and analyzed, revealing that 56% of the 3,431 students in 73% of the 52 schools used the content, and the digestion rate of the questions in the content was 24.6% among the students who used it. Results of the visiting class, the question digestion rate increased to 55.2%. In today’s world, where almost every child has a personal computer, it is expected that classes make use of digital teaching materials. The development of teaching materials in collaboration with the startup company and the museum can promote a new collaboration between schools and museums, as well as digital archiving of the museum’s exhibits and assets.
