Development of the educational program that utilizes marine education that contributes to science education at elementary school

The education in ocean blessed Japan imposed various educational problems, and one of them is the marine education. In order to establish the marine education, introduction to the curriculum in the school education is effective, and participation by lectures of specialized institution is expected. In this research, curators of the university museum organized an educational program linked to the marine education combined with learning contents of science of 5th grade elementary school while receiving advice from elementary school teachers, and visited to elementary school to give lessons. New teaching materials related to oceanic education are Whitebait of marine fish and marine plankton. The new teaching materials of the educational program were related to marine education such as marine nature, marine life, marine and human relations, marine environmental problems, etc. It became contents related to the public’s understanding of the ocean. We analyzed and validated a investigation result of questionnaires that we took surveys after the lessons about educational effects of the educational program. The subjects are 22 Shizuoka elementary schools, 1194 students and 57 teachers. The content of the educational program was proved to be effective for science in elementary school, as it was able to respond to student’s intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn and obtained understanding and evaluation of teachers.