Presented at the GHOU 2018 conference in Vienna, Austria from 13-15 August. http://handsonuniverse.org/ghou2018/program/

1. Report of the
Global Science Opera workshop
at Soka-higashi high school
in Japan
Hideo Shinohara (Soka-higashi high school)
Toshihiro Handa (Kagoshima university)
Hanae Ono (Tokyo university)
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2. What is the “Global Science Opera”?
“The Global Science Opera” (GSO) is a new
style science education through collaboration
science and art.
・Make the opera story based on knowledge of science.
・Students in many countries play and film one scene
of the opera.
・All the scenes are merged in one opera and casted
to the world through internet.
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3. Global Science Opera workshop at
Soka-higashi high school jn Japan
・Soka-higashi high school had participated in this
Global Science Opera for two years, 2016 and 2017.
・We held workshops to make one scene of the Opera.
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4. GSO 2016
~ “Ghost Particles”
“Ghost Particles”：
Photon, Neutrino, Higgs Boson
・Main character is a boy, Joao.
・He is interested in elementary
particles
・Joao hopes to find new particle.
・He goes on a journey with his girl
friend, Little Girl. GHOU 2018 (13 - 15, Aug. 2018, @Vienna)

5. Participants in the GSO 2016
About 20 groups from all over the world participated
in this project in GSO 2016
・Norway, Netherlands,
England, Switzerland,
Germany, Greece, Romania,
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Serbia
・Principe，Uganda
・Japan, China, Iran
・Australia
・USA, Canada
・Chile, Brazil
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6. Some scenes from the GSO 2016 video
Dance of the particle
accelerator and collider
(Chile)
Dance of Beta decay
(China)
Dialogue between
Joao and Firefly
(Greece)
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7. Some scenes from the GSO 2016
Joao’s
father's
Monologue
(Uganda)
Photon and neutrino’s
race (Principe)
Encounter with
Joao and Little
Girl (Japan)
Dialogue between
Joao and Little Girl
(Germany)
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8. GSO 2016 Workshop at our school
＜Participants＞
・Lecturer ： Ms. Janne Robelstat
・Students ： Drama club and Music club members
(about 25 students)
・Teachers ： 5 or 6 teachers
(Author, English teacher, and so on)
・Date ： Oct. 8th to 10th, 2016 (for three days)
・Place ： Saitama prefectural Soka-higashi high school
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9. Time table of the GSO WS
Oct. 8th (Sat) 9th (Sun) 10th (Mon)
AM Preparation for the
Workshop
warm-up
visualising the place where the
story happens
constructing the set
warm-up
filming the scene
interview students and
teacher
PM
Introduction
warm-up
working with our scene
music & science exercises
intro scenography and
costumes
working with lights
working with costumes
practice scene
clean up
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10. Participating Students
＜Drama club member＞ 10
＜Music club member＞ 16
Boys ： 3（Sci：0, Lit：3）
Girls： 7（Sci：1, Lit：6）
Boys : 3（Sci：3, Lit： 0）
Girls :13（Sci：3, Lit：10）
Sci :Science course
Lit : Literature course
Boys ： 6
Girls：20
＜Summary＞ 26
Sci. ： 7
Lit. ：19
Girls >> Boys
Lit. >> Sci.
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11. Snapshots of GSO-WS
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12. Snapshots of GSO-WS
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13. Evaluation for the GSO-WS by students
・Beyond the subject boundaries
→ It’s a “Cross-Subjects Education Program”
・Beyond the border
→ Creating one opera with participants from all over the world
・Beyond language barriers
→ The official language of the workshop is English
We did questionnaires before/after workshop in order to know how
students‘ awareness changes (or not) through this workshop.
GSO workshop has remarkable characteristics;
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14. Evaluation Perspectives
Students answered questionnaires twice, before and after
the workshop. (Partially three times; after watching the
video)
We measured how students had changed through the
workshop at those perspectives above.
① It has 3-characteristics; ”Global”, ”Science”, ”Opera”
② It is based on the concept of ”eco-scenography”
③ “English” is the official language in the workshop
④ The theme is “Particle physics”
⑤ All about the GSO workshop
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15. Evaluation 1
”Global”, ”Science”, ”Opera”
This GSO workshop has three remarkable characteristics as follows;
(a) “Global” ： Persuading with world wide participants
(b) “Science” : The theme of the opera is about science topics
(c) “Opera” : Played in Opera style
Question is “How much are you interested in these characteristics?”
① Very much ② Much ③ Not so much ④Less ⑤Nothing
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16. Evaluation 1-1; “Global”
・After the workshop, “very much” remarkably increased.
・After viewing the video, the trend has further strengthened
Interests for
"Global"
Before
W.S.
After
W.S.
Impression
for
"Global"
After
watching
video
Very much 3 14 Very much 17
Much 4 9 Much 6
Not so much 11 1 Not so much 1
Less 3 2 Less 1
Nothing 4 0 Nothing 0
How much are you interested in “global” in the GSO?
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17. Evaluation 1-2; “Science”
・After the workshop, “very much” and “much” increased.
・After viewing the video, “very much” remarkably increased.
Interests for
"Science"
Before
W.S.
After
W.S.
Impression
for
"Science"
After
watching
video
Very much 1 4 Very much 13
Much 8 18 Much 7
Not so much 4 2 Not so much 4
Less 7 2 Less 1
Nothing 5 0 Nothing 0
Table.2 Interests or impression for "Sciencel"
How much are you interested in “science” in the GSO ?
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18. Evaluation 1-3; “Opera”
・After the workshop, “very much” increased.
・After viewing the video, “very much” and “much” reduced slightly.
Interests for
"Opera"
Before
W.S.
After
W.S.
Impression
for
"Opera"
After
watching
video
Very much 1 8 Very much 5
Much 12 11 Much 9
Not so much 5 5 Not so much 9
Less 2 2 Less 1
Nothing 5 0 Nothing 1
Table.3 Interests or impression for "Opera"
How much are you interested in “opera” in the GSO ?
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19. Evaluation 2; “eco-scenography”
・After the workshop, “very much” and “much” increased.
Interests for
"eco-scenography"
Before
W.S.
After
W.S.
Very much 5 12
Much 6 12
Not so much 8 2
Less 4 0
Nothing 2 0
Table.4 Interests for "eco-scenography"
How much are you interested in “eco-scenography”?
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20. Evaluation 3; “English”
・Many students felt “anxiety" before workshop than "challenging"
・After the workshop, most students felt it was “challenging"
What do you think that English is the official language in the W.S.
Evaluation for
"English"
Before
W.S.
After
W.S.
very challenging 1 12
challenging 4 10
not so much 2 2
anxiety 5 0
very anxiety 13 2
Table 5 Evaluation for "English"
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21. Evaluation 4-1; particle physics(knowledge)
・After the workshop, the answer "much" remarkably increased.
・But they couldn’t understand “very much” through the workshop.
Very much 0 Very much 0 Very much 0
Much 1 Much 17 Much 14
Not so much 5 Not so much 5 Not so much 8
Less 7 Less 3 Less 1
Nothing 12 Nothing 1 Nothing 2
Before W.S. After W.S.
Table 6 How much do you know/understand about particle physics?
After watching video
How much are you know about particle physics?
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22. Evaluation 4-2; particle physics(Interests)
・Before the workshop, 10 students had no interests at all.
・After the workshop, “nothing” decreased and “much” increased.
Very much 1 Very much 4 Very much 2
Much 7 Much 9 Much 10
Not so much 5 Not so much 9 Not so much 11
Less 2 Less 3 Less 1
Nothing 10 Nothing 1 Nothing 1
Before W.S. After W.S. After watching video
Table 7 How much are you interested in particle physics?
How much are you interested in particle physics?
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23. Evaluation 5; whole the workshop
・Most of the students thought that the workshop was very good,
and they hope to participate in the next Global Science Opera.
Do you want to
participate ?
After
W.S.
Absolutely Yes 11
Yes 11
Have no idea 1
No 1
Absolutely No 1
Table 11
Do you want to participate
in the next GSO workshop?Evaluation for
whole the workshop
After
W.S.
After
watching
video
Very good 21 13
Good 4 9
So so 1 2
Not so good 0 1
Not good 0 0
Table 10 Evaluation for whole the workshop
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24. Summary
・Evaluation for three characteristics; ”Global”, ”Science”,
“Opera” is very high!
→ GSO is an effective method as a inter-subjective
science education.
・Students’ interests for ”eco-scenography” is increased
through this workshop
→ This workshop can be an environmental education
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25. Summary
・GSO workshop can give students sense of accomplishment
for doing in English.
→ GSO is very effective for English education in
Japan
・GSO workshop is partially effective for increasing
interests or knowledge about particle physics
→ Some other lectures will be needed for
learning expert knowledge about physics.
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26. Summary
・Evaluation for whole the GSO Workshop is very high.
→ ・Students discussed how to make the opera each
other all through the GSO workshop.
・The workshop has “active learning style”
・But, It is insufficient to convey professional
knowledge.
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27. GSO 2017 workshop
~ “Moon Village”
・The theme of the GSO 2017
was ”Moon Village”
The year is 2040. 100 persons live on the Moon
Village. Two of them are expecting a child: Sofia is
the first child born in space. Soon, more children
are born on the Moon. Robi the Robot is their
nanny. Gravity plans to make life difficult for them.
As the children grow, they explore Space. When
they learn about the troubles on Earth, some of
them (including Sofia’s boyfriend) decide to return
back to Earth. ････ GHOU 2018 (13 - 15, Aug. 2018, @Vienna)

28. “Pre-meeting” of GSO 2017 workshop
・We had pre-meetings on Sep. 26th, preparing for
the GSO workshop
・They are discussing about our scene.
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29. “Pre-meeting” of GSO 2017 workshop
In the pre-meeting, I prepared other program.
・I did a brief lecture about the Moon.
・We watched the Moon using
telescope at the rooftop of our
school building.
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30. Moon Watching in the pre-meeting
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31. GSO 2017 workshop ~ “Moon Village”
・GSO workshop was held on Oct. 7th and 8th, 2017.
Oct. 7th 8th
AM
Warming up
Guidance for the workshop
Brief lecture about the Moon
Kowing about our scene
Warming up
Practice scene
Constructing the set
PM
Making drama set, sound
Making costumes
Working with lights
Constructing the set
Filming the scene
Interview students
Clean up
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32. Snapshots of the workshop 2017
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33. Snapshots of the workshop 2017
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34. Snapshots of the GSO 2017 workshop
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35. Post-workshop meeting
We had a post-workshop meeting on Dec. 22nd
and watched the GSO video on YouTube together.
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36. Evaluation for the workshop 2017 by students
We took questionnaire from the students before/after
the workshop 2017.
We are currently analyzing the data.
Report of the GSO workshop will be continued to the
next GHOU meeting.
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37. Global Science Opera 2018?
We are going to participate in GSO 2018.
We are planning to hold a workshop in
October this year.
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