Educational activity by using nuclear chart in Japan; Constructing three-dimensional nuclear chart and distributing nuclear charts through crowdfunding

日本における核図表を用いた教育活動; 3次元核図表の作成と高校生向けクラウドファンディング活動

小浦 寛之   

Koura, Hiroyuki

JAEA has published a paper-based nuclear chart since 1976. We expand the nuclear chart for the usage of educational activities. (1) Three-dimensional nuclear chart: We constructed some three-dimensional (3D) nuclear charts created using toy blocks. With the chart, lectures entitled "Alchemy of the Universe", a story of nucleosynthesis in stars, were delivered to science cafes and science lectures in high schools, and so on. (2) Crowdfunding in Japan: In 2020, we started a crowdfunding project "one nuclear chart for one high school" to deliver nuclear charts to high schools in Japan. The donation reached to 1.731 million Yen (17,310 USD, 1 USD=100 Yen) by 157 supporters. We distributed the charts to 284 science-programmed high-schools, namely super science high school (SSH) approved by the ministry for education, overall Japan, 122 high schools in Fukushima prefecture, etc.