A survey was conducted in elementary, junior and senior high schools in Niigata, Toyama and Fukui prefectures with 1546 questionaires examined. The papers are composed of two reports and this first report shows the relations between students' living actirities and their views and concerns. 1. Girls have stronger concerns and positive views for the elderly than boys. 2. Experience of living with grandparents has no particular influences on students' positive views and concerns. 3. Students who are more active in sharing housework, in attending the community and who learn about welfare and the elderly in school have deeper understanding for the elderly and have stronger intentions to help them.

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The purpose of this paper was to understand students' learning motivation of studies concerning welfare and the elderly. The subjects were mentioned in the previous paper. The results were; 1. Girls had more learning motivation on studying about welfare and the elderly than boys. As students moved to a higher school level, their learning motivation decreased. 2. Students who were active in the community and independent in their daily lives, and had learned about the elderly had stronger learning motivation.

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Since the New Homemaking Education was started in 1947 in Japan, the Family Life Area has been treated in various ways, and sometimes completely neglected. In order to clarify the issues concerning this area in Japan, textbooks were compared between Japan and the U.S.. In the background of textbooks, there are different system of schools and cultural factors involved in both countries. The results of the analysis are as follows; 1. In Japanese textbooks, understanding of the significance and functions of family life, and their problems in modern society are respected. Whereas in the U.S., recognition of affection, parenting, family relationships in the life course of individuals from various angles are consistent. 2. We can see in the U.S. textbooks, their efforts for the minorities, and for the solving of students' issues and crises. Suggestions on the educational methods for a practical subject as ours can be derived from these findings.

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This study attempted to construct effective materials and mithods to teach family finance taking account of nutrition intake and food expense. The features were as follows: 1. The "nutritional unit price" was devised to judge the economy of food by calculating the quotient of price to nutritive content per 100g of food. 2. Materials were made to aid a visual and quick understanding of the quantity of nutrients contained in food and food cost by using a personal computer. These materials and methods made it possible to teach the planning and evaluation of food expense taking account of nutrition intake theoretically.

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This study refers to the effect of teaching methods constructed for food expense. In senior high school, 80 students of 2nd grades were divided into experimintal group guided by using the constructed materials and methods; and cotrol group guided by the usual method. Three kinds of test were given to find the effects of the teaching methods. The results were as follows: 1. The methods were effective to enhance students' understanding of nutritional feature of foods connected with foods expense. 2. The methods had a positive effect on students' ability to choose and purchase food taking account of nutrition intake and food expense.

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In order to clarify the possibility of nutrition education for the lower and middle grade pulils in elementary schools, this study investigated the related nutritional terms in TV-commercials and their recognition of schoolchildren. The results were as follows: 1. There were many nutritional terms in TV-commercials for foods especially in drinks. Moreover the terms of vitamin group were numerously used on TV-commercials. 2. The lower and middle grade pupils knew most of the nutritional terms before the study of home-making education. 3. TV-commercials produced more effects on shopping for the lower grade, and so consumer education is requested from the early stage.

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