Design of high-school mathematics class utilizing electrical energy as teaching materials

Energy environment education is important in high-school for sustainable development of the society and the world. The energy environment educations are lectured in the Integrated Study at most of high-schools. However, it is difficult to provide enough time for lecture of the energy environment education because the period of the Integrated Study is limited. We designed the energy environment education in high-school mathematics class Math II focusing on electric energy. Some teaching materials such as text and work sheets for the exercise were developed in the lectures of the integral calculus and the graphs of trigonometric function. Some experiments using hand electricity generators were employed to increase the motivation and the understanding deeply of the high-school students in the class. The effectiveness of the designed lecture was evaluated based on questionnaire surveys and mini tests. The evaluation results indicated that the designed lecture was effective to increase motivation for learning mathematics and energy environment tasks. Copyright © 2015 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.