Development of Creative Program for Chemical Experiments to Senior High School Students by Cooperation between University and High School

The creative program for chemical experiments in high school has been developed for five years by cooperation between Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki and Miyakonojo Izumigaoka Senior High School through the science partnership program (SPP) planed by the Ministry of Education and Science. Practical experiments of the formation of organic gel and then evaluation of its properties were mainly selected for the program. Although the students learned the gel formation for the first time in this program, they felt great interest in exciting behavior of the gel. The useful educational materials to the high school students was established in the SPP.