Teachers at the elementary schools are striving to grow communication skills of their pupils, recently. They study to have classes with cooperative learning, where children are asked to give presentations to their study group and/or have discussions in the group. To study the effectiveness of various methods, I have given a series of classes about the phases of the Moon by three methods, namely, ① lecture type, ② communication type, and ③ cooperative learning type. And then, I have compared the students’ achievement of leaning with those methods. The results show that the cooperative learning is the most effective, i.e. many students meet the valuation standards. It is also found that how well children understand is related with how many times they raise their hands in the classroom.

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