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We, the NPO Tamagawa Club, offer the environmental education leader development courses to elementary school teachers in order to promote "The Tama River Educational Program," which aims at making use of the Tama River, which is surrounded with relatively well-preserved nature compared with other urban rivers, as the venue for environmental education for children living in the basin.

Last fiscal year, we offered nature experience seminars to teachers, and also created 500 copies of an advisory brochure (A4 color pages, 28 pages in length) to support schools having difficulties in program implementation. This brochure was created based on the data obtained from the questionnaire survey on the environmental education of the Tama River, in which 131 teachers from 63 elementary schools in Tokyo and Kanagawa had participated. We have also created and distributed 1200 sets of “Insect Cards” (Tama River Version) as learning materials for teachers.

This fiscal year, we offered a total of 31 seminars and delivery lectures (reference material attached) at various places of the basin with a total of approx. 3529 participants, including children and their parents. These numbers greatly exceed those of the last fiscal year (3098 participants in 24 activities) and we are pleased with this outcome.

Currently we are in the process of compiling “Higata no Ikimono Zukan” (The Illustrated Guide to Life on Tidal Flats), as learning materials for teachers, from the data collected over the last year. We hope that the book will be a helpful tool to enhance "Tamagawa Sensei" (The Tama River Teachers).

Ken Nakamoto　Member of Kawasaki City Board of Education, Actor