Development of Teaching Methods regarding : Learning Strategies in Elementary School Science

The purpose of this research is to develop teaching methods where students can voluntarily use learning strategies in studying elementary school science. （1）Over a period of 2 years, we studied what types of learning method items children could use, among students who were encouraged to use learning method items in science class. As a result, the following 2 points became clear. ①Students used learning method items when they did such things as predict results, plan experiments, verify their ideas, and summarize results. ②Students used learning method items when they decided the direction in which to advance their studies and when they tried to make their thoughts more solid. （2）In various problem solving study situations, the relation between the usage of learning method items and metacognition was investigated. As a result, the students were conducting thinking activities where they looked back at their own thoughts from subjective, third party point of views. From this, there is a possibility that learning method items function as metacognition. （3）We examined the learning method items children used from the process and skill points of view and created learning method items that are conceivably necessary when students conduct problem solving. We then provided children with these learning method items and proposed teaching methods that make it possible for students to use voluntarily use these items