小中学生を対象としたソーラー自転車キットの開発

Abstract

Recently the importance of Monozukuri (manufacturing) has been watched with keen interest as a social; problem, which has a relation with schoolchildren's decline of their academic standards, pointed out by the reports of PISA of OECD and TIMSS, etc., and their “losing interest in science” and “dislike of science”, some people worry about, which will lead to the decline of technology in the home industry, the top-class personnel shortage, and the decrease of economical power in this country in the future. In order to solve such a problem, science pavilions, universities, and academic societies of science and engineering etc. in various places hold “Monozukuiri Classrooms” or “Science Classrooms”. This paper reports the solar bike kits for elementary and junior high school students. The solar bike has been composed of a motor, battery, a solar cell panel and an electronic circuit. By using this kit, it is possible to improve interest to science and technology in elementary school child and junior high school student.