Efforts to Develop a Curriculum for Programming Education in Public Elementary School as Part of a Project to Aid the Digitization of Education in Mizuho City, Gifu Prefecture

As of October 2018, the Center for Teaching Profession, Asahi University is in the process of developing a programming curriculum outlined in the educational guidelines for the next course of study in elementary schools. It was done at the request of the Mizuho Board of Education as part of a project to aid digitization of education in Mizuho city that started in 2017. This report introduces teaching materials in line with two different organizational principles (system-oriented and experience-oriented) that were conceived in this endeavor. It also examines some tools for a desirable elementary school programming education.