Experimental Studies of Curriculum Development of Environmental Educationa-Applied Study of the Forest Air for Teaching Materials of Environmental Health Education-

有一次，我为了沐浴森林空气，检查空气质量，进入了佛教弥诺布三寺附属的一片茂密的森林，这里一直是佛教信徒祈祷和过苦行生活的著名圣地。这片森林形成了一个生态系统，由几种根伸得很紧的大树、各种昆虫、鸟类和从较低的地面冒出来的泉水组成。密闭的室内环境作为一种用双层玻璃窗屏蔽以防止噪声污染的学校建筑，往往会给教室里的学童带来意想不到的气温和湿度的升高，昏昏欲睡和无精打采的感觉，以及空气污染物对上呼吸道的刺激。我们确实经历过这些恶劣的条件。植物的挥发性化学物质，如α -蒎烯是一种兴奋剂，活的植物吸收空气中的污染物。我们尝试在密闭的教室里引入盆栽植物，使教室里的孩子们……更能改善由于室温升高和密闭的空气而产生的疲劳和窒息感。房间里的二氧化碳和二氧化氮浓度几乎没有下降，因为供学生使用的植物太少，无法改善房间的空气质量。如果城市地区的机动化变得更加严重，教室里的空气质量是难以预料的，应该在学校内外推广森林保护和绿色学校计划。在最后一年，我们尝试开发环境教育教材，不仅考虑到“森林与人类生命和健康”的相互关系，而且还引入了农业，工程，林业，生态，建筑和环境保护的跨学科方面。开发了环境教育的教材，提取了相关的课程领域，可以提高他/她的生命力。这三个步骤是：1)自然历史的信息检索，森林对人类是友好的和有益的。2)构建自然科学与人文科学统一的新范式。3)将发展过程本身运用到课程中。森林将为人类提供由植物净化和调节的空气，调节人类的自主神经系统、内分泌系统和免疫系统，增强人类的自愈能力。此外，森林保持生态系统，调节水循环，土壤和空气。森林是人类教育的起点。人类与森林共生进化发展。在环境教育统一课程中，我们利用这些事实和概念来开发新的教材。少

Once I entered into a thick forest attached to Buddhism Minobu-San Temple in order to bathe the forest air and to examine the quality of the air, which has been a famous sacred place for the Buddhism believers to pray and to lead an ascetic life. The forest formed an ecosystem composed of several kinds of large trees with tightly extended roots, various insect species, birds, and a spring coming out in the lower ground.Air tight indoor environment as a school building shielded with double glassed window to prevent noise pollution often brings unexpected increase in atmospheric temperature and humidity, drowsy and listless feeling to the class room school children, and stimulation by air pollutants to upper respiratory tracts. These bad conditions were actually experienced by us.Volatile chemicals from plants such as alpha-pinene is a kind of stimulants, and live plants absorb air pollutants.We tried to introduce pot plants in an air tight class room, which caused class room children to … More improve their fatigue and choking feeling due to the raised room temperature and the tight air. Concentration of carbon dioxide and mitrogen dioxide in the room decreased little, as the number of plants to school children were too small to improve the room air quality. If the motorization in the urban area will become more serious,air quality in class rooms is hardly expected that forest conservation and green school program should be promoted in and out of the school.In the final year, we tried to to develop teaching materials to environmental education, not only considering the mutual relation of "forest with human life and health" but also introducing interdiciprinary aspects of agriculture, engineering, forestry, ecology, architecture, and environmental conservation. Theaching materials for environmental education were developed extracting the related areas of curricula which could raise his/her life force. The three steps were considered : 1) Information retrieval of the natural history how the forest had been friendly and curative for man. 2) To construct a new paradigm unifying natural science and humanity. 3) To make use of the developing process itself to the course.The forest will provide man improved air refreshed and conditioned by plants, which regulate autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system, increasing his self-cure force. In addition, the forest conserve the ecosystem, regulating water cycle, soil, and air. The forest makes a starting point of human education. Man evolved and developed symbiotic with forests. Those facts and concepts were used to develop our new teaching materials in the unifying curriculum of environmental education. Less