This report states three full accounts of what was perceived during the science class. First, the attractiveness of the subject is to be brought about only when teachers are fully engaged. Second, the children's ability to enlighten one another activates their potential and motivation spontaneously. Third, the student's engagement becomes independent when the feeling of accomplishment is individually experienced.

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It is very difficult for students from technical high schools to enter the national university in the normal entrance examination. Then, in 1994 faculties of engineering at Niigata, Nagasaki, and Toyama Universities set about the task of preparing entrance examinations specially suited to the educational backgrounds of them in order to activate technical high schools on the one hand and national universities on the other in the long run. These three universities began providing students with supplementary lessons in 1995, and collaborated on a study of the curriculums and methods used to teach students from technical high schools. This survey shows that their records are almost the same as the average records of the other students.

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Japan is the country which has the development power of science and the technology. The economy of the domestic manufacturing industry occurs in the severe conditions in the foreign countries of the factory by the move and the overseas production of the industrial goods. And, raising of the talented people who adapt themselves to the social change is being asked at the violent present day in such cases as the information technology revolution. I proceed with the education which is the most suitable for raising of the talented people to live through the future age in the technology and home making course of the junior high school. I held the whole country junior high school student creative manufacturing education fair, and announced the result of the education activities in a society for the study of the whole Japanese junior high school technology and home making course. The importance of the manufacturing education and need were confirmed from the work of the students in this fair and the figure with an athletic meeting.

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Notable project in the educational co-operation between Faculty of Engineering of Ehime University and regional elementary and secondary school teachers was started two years ago. This project was intended to provide scientific and technical experience and deep impression to the school teachers who have a responsibility of the elementary or secondary education. The well experienced and/or deep impressed teachers can educate more effectively to their students to arouse the enthusiasm for science and/or technology through the daily class activity. The precise explanation of the project and two years achievement will be reported.

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Diversification of undergraduate students needs immediate improvement of engineering education at the faculty of engineering. The smooth transition from education of high schools to undergraduate education as cooperation between high schools and universities plays an important role. An admission committee is in action on admission to our faculty in cooperation with admission advisers who are well up in the actual situation of high schools. Education experiences for students of senior and junior high schools are opened every year in order to be familiar with science, technology and our faculty. Preparations and improvements of systems of remedial education for mathematics and physics are made with questionnaire survey of students. Furthermore, follow up surveys are conducted on academic achievement of graduates who have been admitted on recommendation.

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Present educational linkage between high school and university are based upon the traditional linear model. Students of the same age group and the same university departmental inclination learn together. Their attention is focused more upon how to solve the problem efficiently. But what the society needs now more are strategy-oriented students, who can make adequate decisions under widely changing situations. If design based PBL is introduced and if high school and university students as well as teachers and professors work together as a team across the age and domain boundaries, then it is expected high school students can pick up such strategic capabilities and would eventually contribute to strengthening Japanese global competitiveness.

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The technology education is incorporated into the curriculum systematically from the stage of elementary education in each country in the West. The educational reform in the technology and vocational education in secondary and post-secondary education is promoted aiming at the improvement of the education related to career preparation as well as the development of specialized technological skill, in order to correspond to the sharp change of the industrial and employment structure. The activity of every country aiming at the overall technology and vocational education from elementary to post-secondary education is full of suggestions, considering not only the way of the future technology and vocational education in our country, but the way of the education for fostering students "Zest for Living" emphasized in the Course of Study.

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I had the experiences of the geological research during many years in the Geological Survey of Japan. After retirement, making good use of the experiences I had the lecture of the geological education during 8 years in the lower secondary school. During the secondary education, I discovered the bud training the engineering education in the geological education. I believe that this discovery is very important for the creation of the engineering and technological country.

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In recent years, the quality and indeed the quantity of Japanese education has been severely harmed by the restrictive guidelines and curriculum, and poor textbook screening methods of an increasingly authoritarian educational system."The New Science Textbook for Junior High", is an excellent, very scientifically valid and useful set of three volumes which have not been screened by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. They have become very popular with the public because of their unaltered, accurate and easy to understand qualities. I highly recommend them as tools for increasing the level of scientific literacy in our country.

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This is a report of a research which was carried out into teaching collaboration based on mutual accreditation between technical high schools and technological universities. Teaching staffs from both the educational facilities collaborated to discuss teaching materials to be developed for practicing fundamental and consistent educational contents through both the high schools and universities, and mutual accreditation system by both the educational facilities to be applied to those students who have completed the educational contents with a good grade.

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In order to stimulate young students' interest in science and engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) and Wakasa Senior High School (WSHS) started a collaboration project in 2000. KIT gives a two-day pre-college engineering course for students from WSHS. Students are asked to design stronger bridges using as little material as possible. As students have little engineering knowledge, we intend to achieve the objective of the course by three pedagogical concepts: the Plan-Do-Check-Action Cycle, hands-on exercises, and cooperative learning. Besides gaining technical knowledge, this project also helped students in initiating their decision on their majors before entering universities. This paper discusses the experience of the pre-college engineering course and results of student feedback.

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YUMEKOBO (Factory for Dreams and Ideas) at Kanazawa Institute of Technology holds KIT Summer Science School for elementary, junior high, and high school students as a contribution to our community. The purpose of the KIT summer Science School is to afford younger students an opportunity to experience the science world through hands-on projects. In addition, we would like to help them to cultivate both the idea that "Science is interesting" and "To device is fun." This summer event has become such a popular annual activity that there are twice as many applicants as there is capacity. In this paper, we introduce the management style of the event and discuss the results and the improvements made to date.

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Recently, the crisis of the education of science and technology has been pointed out. Scientific experience in life and motivation to learn are needed for the current education of science and technology. Colleges of Technology are suitable institutions for such education in elementary schools and junior high schools. In this study, educational effect of chemical experiments and exhibition in the school events of Oyama National college of Technology is discussed. The feature of the four kinds of school events was extracted. Chemical experiments in four kinds of the school events were effective on the science education of the junior high school students.

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering in Yonago National College of Technology has offered for the first time the experience-based learning opportunities of machining and manufacturing successfully to elementary school pupils with the support by our college volunteer students. It comprised two classes. One was that the teaching staff visited elementary school; the other that the elementary school pupils and their parents visited the college. The subjects included were arc welding, free forging, melting and casting of metals, those being quite effective enough to raising the pupil's interests. We will discuss about what subject should be selected and what problems still remain.

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By the rapid progress of advanced information technologies, information education is going to be developed in schools. In the subject of technology (industrial arts) and homemaking in junior high schools, it is especially important to consider the information education in the relation with training the capability of devising and creating. This paper describes the study contents of "programs and measurement & control" in a part of "information and computer" of the subject of technology and homemaking in junior high school, and the effectiveness is verified from the viewpoint of training the capability of devising and creating through the lesson practice based on the study contents.

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Japanese educational facility has serious problems for the decline of students' basic ability of science and mathematics. We studied mathematical materials for e-learning system throughout the working group in the collaboration with the university, the high school, and the junior high school. Furthermore, we developed the e-learning system and the corresponding contents and examined the practical use in each educational facility. Especially, the contribution to the students' learning ability was confirmed through the remedial course of mathematical class in the university.

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Engineering education in Japan is now requested to make progress along with social changes such as great advancements in high technology, information technology and globalization. Due to the declining population and low birthrate it is important for newcomers to have a diverse learning history and enthusiasm for technology. Under this situation, it is essential for universities to collaborate with high school, asking for the improvement of the education. After much discussion Hachinohe Institute of Technology has established two cooperative programs with various high schools. The aims are (1) that mutual teachers have strong interests about each other's education and understand the actual circumstances, (2) and that university teachers get knowledge about the newcomers as soon as possible and use the knowledge appropriately. (3) Finally we aim to give the high school students stronger incentive to go on to universities. In the present paper, we present the details of the high school-college cooperative education program such as internship activity, pre-enrollment lectures and some problems clarified in the process of the practice.

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Kagoshima National College of Technology has carried out a two-year research project titled "The benefits and issues concerning IT educational assistance by students." This project started in reply to a request from a neighboring junior high school for an educational support in the form of sending our students into its IT-related classrooms. Although our college aims to bring up a practical engineer and training students to teach others is not a main concern, we have come to conclude that such an unprecedented trial like this turned out to be very effective and meaningful to both students and teachers involved in this project. This paper reports the educational effects to the both students, the benefits recognized and problems solved or left unsolved in the course of this project.

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The collapse of steel buildings due to past strong earthquakes caused mostly from poor engineering. The satisfactory engineering in steel building construction is obtained by sufficient knowledge for steel structure especially complicated connection details. In order to improve the engineering education, we propose two visual teaching materials recommended to national college of technology and technical high schools in Hokkaido. One is models of steel sub-assemblage including welded and high strength bolted connections, the other sub-text of construction process by means of photograph presentation. On the basis of educational evaluation, it is concluded that the proposed teaching materials can be contributed to the engineering education and curriculum on steel structure and construction.

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Some students who entered Kisarazu National College Technology (K.N.C.T.) are not interested in watching natural phenomena and are not willing to do experimental work by themselves. This problem is some times called "science outbuilding". To prevent such trend, science programs for primary and secondary school students are started by the stuff of K.N.C.T., groups and individuals of Kisarazu area. This report presents the present condition and discusses the future subjects of this science support project.

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Toshiba Science Institute considers bringing technology to youth to be an important mission, and offers school children opportunities to conduct various kinds of work classroom. These activities are seen as contribution to the community, both within and beyond the company. Recently, we have been asked to provide opportunities to carry out experiments by a neighboring elementary school. This paper discusses a policy on the direction of future action and introduces concrete examples, including cooperation with the school administration.

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