An environmental education program developed in Aichi Prefecture, designed to help children deepen their understanding of climate change through measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in places around them, has been introduced at a number of schools in the Tokai region and also in Taiwan.
The program, which is the brainchild of Masakazu Ito, 59, professor at Nagoya Sangyo University in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture, is also expected to be offered to audiences in China, the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter by volume.
Ito developed the program in 2003 for elementary to high school students. In elementary schools, students walk through the school grounds and surrounding areas with instruments that measure the presence of carbon dioxide and create a concentration map using different colors to show the varying levels of density of the gas.