Teaching Materials and Tools for Education of Information Science for Elementary, Junior High and High School Students

信息科学是追求信息现象背后真理的科学，物理学是追求自然现象背后真理的科学。为了在全社会广泛传播信息科学的基本知识，我们参与了针对小学、初中和高中学生的名为“Digi-tama”的教材和工具的开发。首先，我们重新审视了我们迄今为止开发的不插电式教学工具，并对其进行了改进。另一方面，我们还开发了一套Web应用程序来替代不插电的工具。这使我们能够最大限度地减少在我们的讲座中使用不插电工具的活动所涉及的时间，这些活动通常很耗时。我们在小学和高中的访问讲座中评估和改进了开发的教材和工具。

Information Science is a science that pursues the truth behind information phenomena whereas Physics is a science that pursues the truth behind natural phenomena. In order to widely spread essential knowledge on Information Science throughout people, we involved in developing teaching material and tools named "Digi-tama", aimed at elementary, junior high and high school students. First, we re-examined unplugged teaching tools we developed so far, and refined them. On the other hand, we also developed a set of Web applications substituting for the unplugged tools. This enables us to minimize time involved in activities with unplugged tools in our lectures, which are often time-consuming. We evaluated and improved the developed teaching materials and tools in visiting lectures at elementary and high schools.