Practice of the environmental education by the CO sub(2) density measurement in the elementary school

Japan has faced environmental problems including an artificial thing for several times since the prewar periods. They are the industrialization that advocates measures to enrich and strengthen our country without considering living environment of inhabitants, the concentration of the population to the city and urban development due to the postwar high economic growth policy and the use of the pesticide for mass production of food to meet the food demand to sustain them. In addition, there were alarms to the lifestyle caused by such incident as oil crunch or Nixon shock. The Japanese can overcome some of them through the diligence and technical improvements to make what our country is now. However, globalization goes underway as time goes by and the solution of global problems like environmental problems including prevention of global warming has become necessary. Now the Japanese have achieved the life of comfortable, safe and gluttony. But the chances for Japanese to confront environmental problems at the cost of present lifestyle are extremely low. The challenge that is imposed on us is to make Japan where we can leave what we have realized to our descendents with lifestyle balanced with environmental issues. One of the measures for that purpose is to provide environmental education and to cultivate a person having a gene about the environmental problem solution by nature. Our environmental education program, which was created by the integration of state-of-art technology of civil engineering and information technology, was adopted and practiced at the science special support class of the Ibaraki Hitachinaka City Sotono elementary school and Maewatari elementary school. We report about the achievement and future plan.