Development of Teaching Material to Design a Vehicle on Data Science in Junior High School Technology Education

The Society 5.0, advocated by the Japanese government in 2016, represents the society of the near future. In this context, the development and securing of human resources in mathematics, data science, and AI are urgent issues to promote technological innovation in the future. In this paper, a teaching material specializing in chassis of the vehicle performance in junior high school technology education was developed. The students manufactured their own teaching materials and evaluated them based on the data. The problems were identified and redesigned and remanufactured to solve them. The proposed class was practiced by students who were going to become teachers in a teacher training course, junior high school technology education. The results showed the educational effect of the material. In addition, a 13‐h lesson plan that is the basis of The Lower Secondary School National Curriculum Standard was proposed. © 2021 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.