Although concerns are mounting about children's lack of interest in the physical sciences, classes in which companies send employees to conduct experiments at elementary and junior high schools are proving popular.
Petrochemical firms and drug makers are actively dispatching employees to such classes, hoping they will arouse curiosity in the physical sciences.
In one such class at a Tokyo elementary school, Makoto Shimazaki, an official of Bayer Yakuhin Ltd., demonstrated the mechanism of digestion.