Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers

This research is a case study of education for sustainable development (ESD) with Regional alliances education. The research reveals the status of environmental education initiatives across the region at Notogawa-minami elementary school district, Higashimi-shi, Shiga Prefecture. Also, it examines the impact giving to each other that relationship between the school and the local community. The school has a role as a center of environmental education in the region. That is the school possesses a function as a center of community regeneration and responsible for the maintenance in the region.

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The teaching practice of the orienteering in a usual class time of the high school (for 50 minutes) was done as a strategy for the study of the navigation in the geography education, and the effect was verified. 110 students at Chiba prefectural Matsudo international high school participated in this class. A lot of students liked this class very much. Moreover, the student who had studied the topographical map beforehand put a result that was better than the student who was not doing in the orienteering practice. The map study on paper is guessed to be effective to the navigation.

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The climate study plan, which I see from soil.The high school, which is a student. Soil of their place of residence. This is a subject matter. I take a prepared slide in the soil, which the student extracted. I add a little water to thousand knead a few with a finger.Then add a mounting medium.And I put on the hot plate for roast meat.I heat until a mounting medium bubbles.Then put a cover glass.I warn against burning oneself with working gloves etc. And press down with a finger.I cool pressing down by a fingertip about 30 seconds.I do this identification Event with an optical microscope.In a paddy field it is plant opal of a diatom. Volcanic glass. These will be detected.The plant opal of wheat will be identified in the Environment of a field.If generous as compared with Samples soil will identify a color tone by a color-of-the-earth classification book.

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Groundwater and surface waterare widely utilized as a water resource in the Ayeyarwady River Delta but there are some chemical problems in the middle part of the study area. It is important to make clear the actual conditions of physical and chemical characteristics of groundwater in this delta. Database of the water samples for the the middle Part of the Ayeyarwady Delta were collected from 06th to 09th January 2010. Most water samples were taken with a bucket the surface water from wells, reservoirs and rivers. We were measured through EC and pH in the field and iron concentrations, isotopic and deuterium composition of all water samples are analyzed. Chemical water analysis included the determination of PO4, NO2, Br, NO3, SO4, HCO3, NH4, K, Mg, Cl, Na, EC, pH, 18O and tritium isotopes. The regional water quality of the middle Part of the Ayeyarwady Delta was mapped for key inorganic chemical determinants using a GIS System and Field Survey database. Integration of water data and GIS maps for all parameters revealed that there is probably no drinking water in Ayeyarwady Delta according to the WHO standards. Some determinants also exhibit localized high concentrations related to poor in drainage conditions with flood plains and small lakes as well as swampy areas, soil pollution caused by past land use, bedrock geology, and the agricultural use of fertilizers and the ingression of seawater into the estuary. The resultant maps revealed the major factors affecting the general characteristics of regional water quality.

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