February 1 to 29.2008
Project Essay Application for 2008 Education Support Begins!
We have started accepting project essays for the educational subsidy 2008.
Writing an essay would be a good opportunity to reflect on your daily educational activities, so why not consider making it as one of your goals this year and submit one?
Details of application are also posted on our webpage, so please visit the website, confirm, and apply!
Sony Science Education Program for Children
We are accepting educational programs and practices to “Foster children with an appreciation for the science” through various educational activities mainly of science/ life studies.
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/science/program/regulations2008.html
- Theme: “Foster children with an appreciation for the science”
- Importance of “Why?”/Nurturing sensibility, creativity, subjectivity
- Qualification:All public and private elementary/junior high schools.
- Deadline: September 3rd (Wed), 2008. (As indicated by the postmark on envelope)
Sony Preschool Education Program for Children
We welcome enthusiastic education proposals that carefully nurture children’s “why?”s and “how?”s to develop “rich sensibility” and “creativity”.
- Theme: “Nurturing scientific mind”
- Qualification: All preschools and nurseries/ qualified day-care centers (Activities mainly for 3-5 year olds)
- Deadline: September 18th (Thu), 2008 (As indicated by the postmark on the envelope)
We are currently sending out application guidebooks. Anyone interested, please contact program inquiry of Sony Foundation for Education.
(TEL: 03-3442-1005, FAX:03-3442-1035)
Prize project essay posted on website
Activities and approaches of the selected top schools and preschools of 2007, their summaries, and full PDF text of project essays are now available online.
You can obserb outstanding approaches exercised in educational institutions throughout Japan to nurture “scientific mind” , and to “foster children with an appreciation for the sciences” by going to the following URLs
- Sony Science Education Program for Children
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/science/thesis/winning/2007/index.html - Sony Preschool Education Program for Children
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/thesis/2007/index.html
Sony Science Education Program for Children
SSTA - Visiting branch workshops around Japan
About 1900 members from 49 branches in 46 prefectures throughout Japan participate in Sony Science Teaching Association. From the end of January, the foundation staff began visiting each branch to explain the essay application process among other things.
Photos of the visited branches are posted on the link below:
http://www-sec.sony-ef.or.jp/shibu/2007/photo.html
For previous branch activities, please see the following links:
Brach workshops: http://www-sec.sony-ef.or.jp/shibu/index.html
Branch webpage etc.: http://www-sec.sony-ef.or.jp/sstasibu/index.html
New members interested in joining, please contact branch offices in each region.
Branch Offices
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sony Preschool Education Program for Children
New Project for Guardians
Photo Contest -“In search for the Scientific Mind”
We are currently accepting picturesque shots of children for the photo contest “In search for the Scientific Mind”.
Send us photos of children before school age that show their “scientific minds”. Newly taken photographs as well as shots taken in the past are welcome. Please send them in along with a message or comment less than 50 letters, that describes the picture.
- Application deadline: March 31st (Mon), 2008
- Qualification: Guardians of children below 6 at the time of application.
- Application method: Fill in necessary items in the application form, attach photograph and send via postal mail.
- Prize announcement: Late April
Senders of the awarded photographs will receive Sony video camera, digital still camera and more.
The sent in photographs will be posted on our webpage as much as possible.
For more details (Application form can be downloaded here):
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/contest/
Web magazine updated
- Vol.67 “Life” Feel life
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/webmagazine/webmag67.html - Vol.68 “Working together with elementary school” Exchange activity to nurture hearts
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/webmagazine/webmag68.html
Comic “I see how it works now!” Updated
- No.22 “Kakigori” (Ice sherbet)
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/cartoon/22_kakigoori.html
When I opened a “Kakigori shop” using clean snow, my teacher came. After a several visit, she requested kakigori with chocolate flavoring.
But she got a stomachache and went to buy some medicine. (imitative learning).So, for small children… - No.23 “Roof”
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/cartoon/23_yane.html
As a measure against falling objects, a roof was built on top of a sand pit. Children were in joy seeing the roof and…
Book “Scientific Mind Developed in Childhood” donated to library
So that many people can read the book “Scientific Mind Developed in Childhood” published this year, we have sent copies of the book to libraries around Japan.
Donated libraries will be listed on the website at a later date. If you are interested, please look it up in a library near you.
See the link below for details of the book:
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/news/2007/070528.html
