2025.11.7
As part of the collaborative initiative with the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education, we are providing environmental education under the theme of “Making Fertilizer from Food Waste,” in which discarded food waste (such as vegetable scraps and leftover food) from school lunches is reused as fertilizer for gardens and flowerbeds. As part of this initiative, we rec...
2024.9.30
We are offering classes for 6th graders at two elementary schools, as part of their comprehensive learning program. The two shools are Tahara Elementary School and Ujitawara Elementary School, both located in the town of Ujitawara. From September 27 to November 8.our project members, visited the elementary schools every Friday to give lectures. The title of the lecture is “L...
2024.6.7
As a collaborative project between the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education and RIHN, Akiyo Shioya and Utako Aoike are giving lessons as a part of the Integrated Learning Program, titled “Let’s make compost from food waste” at elementary schools in Kyoto Prefecture. During class, 5th grade students mix food scraps disposed from school lunches into the soil to make comp...
2024.6.3
Akiyo Shioya, Co-PI and Utako Aoike, started composting lessons at two elementary schools in Ide town, Kyoto. The first lesson at each school lasted 45 minutes, during which they gently explained the significance, purpose and procedure of the class to the elementary school children. They prepared the soil so that the children could start adding food scraps to the compost fro...
