A Study for Home Economics Education for the Middle Grades of Japanese Elementary School with Aim of its Connection with Life Environment Studies-As a Case of Integrated Studies-

本研究的目的是获取日本小学烹饪活动的基本数据，并提出烹饪教育计划，为“综合研究时期”做出贡献。在第一部分中，我们报告了小学生的实际烹饪经历和他们对自己烹饪的菜肴和糖果的偏好的调查结果。据调查，80%的小学4年级学生会使用燃气灶，并能处理各种菜单。这些学生想在烹饪课上做蛋糕和饼干。在第二部分中，我们报告了我们对小学教师在课堂上进行烹饪活动的研究结果。第一部分和第二部分的结果表明，各种烹饪活动可以在小学中年级进行，这些经验可以在“综合学习时期”付诸实践。第三和第四部分的提出是在第一部分和第二部分研究成果的基础上提出的。我们调查了适合小学低年级和中年级班级的各种烹饪菜单。然后，我们为烹饪课开发了几个食谱“甜菜单”和“国际理解研究菜单”。其中一些食谱在一个幼儿园班和两个小学班进行了测试。我们在这些实验中取得了成功。孩子们很擅长烹饪，也很喜欢。我们会在“综合学习时期”开设网页，支持烹饪教育。

The purpose of this study is to obtain basic data on cooking activities in Japanese elementary school, and to suggest a cooking education plan in order to contribute to 'Period for Integrated Studies'.In part I, we reported on the results of a survey on the actual cooking experiences of elementary school students and their preferences for dishes and sweets to be cooked by themselves. It appears that eighty percent of 4th grade students in elementary school can use gas cookers and can deal with various menus. These students want to make cakes and cookies in their cooking class.In part II, we reported the results of our research on elementary school teachers into cooking activities in their classes. Part I and II's results indicated that various cooking activities could be conducted in the middle grades of elementary school, and such experiences could be put into practice during 'Period for Integrated Studies'.The proposal of part III and part IV followed the results of the researches of part I and part II.We investigated various cooking menus suitable to the class of lower and middle grades of elementary school. And then, we developed several recipes for cooking class of "sweet menus" and "menus for intrernational understanding studies". Some of those recipes were tested in the class of one kindergarten and two classes of elementary school. We succeeded in these experiments. Children were very good at those cooking and enjoyed them. We would open our homepage for support a cooking education in the 'Period for Integrated Studies'.