Japan: Provision of an Elementary School Educational Program Incorporating Panasonic GREEN IMPACT Begins
Panasonic Group, together with ARROWS Inc, a company that develops and runs one of the biggest online platforms for school teachers, began to provide an educational program based on the long-term environmental vision Panasonic GREEN IMPACT to sixth graders from January 2024. By providing free teaching materials for domestic elementary schools it is promoting environmental education in cooperation with schools and teachers actively engaged in such education.
Efforts for environmental education are underway in Japanese elementary schools through various teaching materials, but not many of these materials can be used as they are in classrooms, and it is also difficult for them to inspire children to take their own actions. To solve these problems and reduce the burden on teachers in actual classrooms, an educational program was created for social studies classes of sixth graders titled Stop Global Warming! Protect the Earth with Carbon Neutrality based on PGI (consisting of slides, videos, worksheets, collected examples, and a lesson progress script). The program has quizzes using personal computers and smartphones allowing learning at home with one's family. It reinforces environmental education through specific actions.
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Panasonic Group has run the Panasonic GREEN IMPACT PARK since March 2023 in the Panasonic Center Tokyo as a place to really experience PGI. It welcomes school groups such as for study outside of school or school trips. By providing this program it has boosted support for education in actual classrooms to further broaden environmental education to children who will bear the burden of the future.
