Dec. 2023

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
9(Sat.)	13:30-15:00	The “Doboku” World of Big machines! / Vehicles at Work	Yoshikazu Takahashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	All elementary grade students
10(Sun.)		Cafeteria*		All elementary grade students
16(Sat.)	10:00-11:30	What Kind of Animal is the Snow Leopard, The Cat That Lives in the World’s Highest places?	Kodzue Kinoshita, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies	All elementary grade students
17(Sun.)		Learn the seasonal constellations		All elementary grade students
23(Sat.)	13:30-15:00	Oh No, Someone Has Fallen Over! Let's Learn How to Use AED with Dr. Poo.	Chika Nishiyama, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	All elementary grade students
24(Sun.)		Christmas party		All elementary grade students
25(Mon.)	13:30-15:00	Discovering the Wonders of Volcanoes and Earthquakes through Experiments	Yoshitsugu Furukawa, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
26(Tue.)		Japanese roly-poly toy		All elementary grade students
27(Wed.)	13:30-15:00	Let's Take Care of Our Patients!	Mie Torii, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Chifumi Otaki, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Mariko Asase, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	All elementary grade students
28(Thu.)		Snow falling inside the box		All elementary grade students

Jan. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
4(Thu.)		Cafeteria*		All elementary grade students
5(Fri.)	10:00-11:30	What Kind of Water Tastes Good?	Naoko Tokuchi, Professor, Field Science Education and Research Center	All elementary grade students
6(Sat.)		Making a string telephone		All elementary grade students
7(Sun.)		Experiments using liquid soap		All elementary grade students
8(holiday)	13:30-15:00	Try to Beat Professor Puzzle	Hiroshi Higashida, Organizer, KU Higashida-style Puzzle Class	All elementary grade students
13(Sat.)	13:30-15:00	Something about Reptiles	Hikida Tsutomu, Professor Emeritus, (Graduate School of Science)	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
14(Sun.)		Cafeteria*		All elementary grade students
20(Sat.)	13:30-15:00	Let's Discover Trilobites	Terufumi Ohno, Professor Emeritus (KU Museum)	All elementary grade students
21(Sun.)		Making a spring flower bed		All elementary grade students
27(Sat.)		Making a parachute		All elementary grade students
28(Sun.)	10:00-11:30	Chasing Fish from Around the World	Hiromichi Mitamura, Professor, Field Science Education and Research Center	All elementary grade students

Feb. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sat., 3		Making a electrostatic generator		All elementary grade students
Sun., 4	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	What to Do About the Earth Getting Hotter and The rain is getting heavier?s	Eiichi Nakakita, Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kenji Tanaka, Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute	All elementary grade students
Sat., 10	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	What Does Barrier-Free Mean? You Do Things Your Way and I’ll Do Things My Way.	Jun Murata, Associate Professor, Agency for Student Support and Disability Resources	All elementary grade students
Sun., 11		Cafeteria*		All elementary grade students
Mon., 12	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	The Wonder of Water and Bubbles	Dr. Yoshikatsu Ueda, Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere	All elementary grade students
Sat., 17		JAMP-JAM (game move body)		All elementary grade students
Sun., 18	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's move the cyborg!	Yusuke Kusano, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	All elementary grade students
Fri., 23	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Book Talk	Bunri Usami, Professor, Research Administration Center (KURA)/Graduate School of Letters Hideharu Numata, Professor, Institute for the Future of Human Society Futaba Fujikawa, URA, KU Research Administration Center	All elementary grade students
Sat., 24		Experience the history of the ancient capital at the Yoshida Shrine		All elementary grade students
Sun., 25	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Insects are Our Friends	Hideharu Numata, Professor, Institute for the Future of Human Society	All elementary grade students

Mar. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sat., 2		SDGs/Crafting with Cardboard		All elementary grade students
Sun., 3	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Kimonos Made by Silkworms!	Ryoko Masaki,Part-time lecturer / Kimono researcher, Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Doshisha University	All elementary grade students
Sat., 9	10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m.	Mathematics without numbers	Tadashi Tokieda, Professor, Stanford University	All elementary grade students
Sun., 10	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Viruses Can Be Fun?!	Akiko Makino, Associate Professor, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences (LiMe)	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sat., 16		SDGs/Making Eco Bag		All elementary grade students
Sun., 17	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let’s Learn More about Modern Mongolia!	Jargalsaikhan Jargalmaa, Researcher / International Student, Office of Society Academia Collaboration for Innovation	All elementary grade students
Wed., 20	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	The Mystery of Parasitic Bees	Junji Takabayashi, Professor Emeritus, Center for Ecological Research	All elementary grade students
Sat., 23	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Let’s Try Games from Around the World!	Junko Kawai, Professor / International student, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences	All elementary grade students
Sun., 24		Let's Experience Japanese Culture "Let's Learn Japanese Tea Ceremony"		All elementary grade students
Tue., 26	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Studying Monkeys in Tropical Jungles	Kazuki Matsuda, Professor, Wildlife Research Center	All elementary grade students
Wed., 27		Exploring the Kamogawa River		All elementary grade students
Thu., 28	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Red, Blue, Green, and Mysterious Experiments with Light	Toshinao Tsunemi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Fri., 29		Let's Enjoy the Soil "Let's Make Clay Paints"		All elementary grade students
Sat., 30	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Aren’t Poisonous Animals Scary?	Masahiro Miyashita, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture	All elementary grade students
Sun., 31		Exercise Program "Let's Play with Dots, Lines and Surfaces"		All elementary grade students

Apr. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Mon. Apr. 1		STEAM/Making Plastic Sheet(Heat,Material)		All elementary grade students
Tue. Apr. 2	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Experience Mysterious Flavors! Although it is not a specific allergic food, those who are allergic to lemon, kelp, bonito flakes, or seeds cannot participate.	Yukako Hayashi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture	All elementary grade students
Wed. Apr. 3		SDGs/Crafting with Cardboard		All elementary grade students
Thu. Apr. 4	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Seeing the Invisible: The Unknown World of Radiation	Yuichi Kadoyama, Associate Professor, Agency for Health, Safety, and Environment	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Fri. Apr. 5	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Life Lessons: The Gift Owned by Everyone	Sayaka Takenouchi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	All elementary grade students
Sat. Apr. 6	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	What If You Take a Close Look at Wood?	Suyako Tazuru, Senior Lecturer, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere	All elementary grade students
Sun. Apr. 7		Making Filtration Equipments		All elementary grade students
Mon. Apr. 8	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Preventing the Extinction of African Wildlife: How Can Genetics Help?	Miho Murayama, Professor / International student, Wildlife Research Center	All elementary grade students
Tue. Apr. 9		Exercise Program "Let's Experience Non-Verbal"		All elementary grade students
Sat. Apr. 13	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Space Exploration "Japanese Manned Space Activities"	Takao Doi, Program-Specific Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability/Astronaut	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sun. Apr. 14		Programming		All elementary grade students
Sat. Apr. 20	(Closed due to the installation of cushioning in the playroom.)
Sat. Apr. 21	(Closed due to the installation of cushioning in the playroom.)
Sat. Apr. 27	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	What Kind of Sound Do Trees Make?	Kazushi Nakai, Program-Specific Associate Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere	All elementary grade students
Sun. Apr. 28		Let's Make the Green Wall!		All elementary grade students
Mon. Apr. 29		Kyoto University Exploration and Mapping		All elementary grade students

May. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Fri. May. 3	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Take a Quiz to Learn About the Elements *Postponed: Instead, we will offer an experiential program by Pasona Foster.	Koichi Hagino, Professor, Graduate School of Science	All elementary grade students
Sat. May. 4		SDGs/Crafting with Cardboard		All elementary grade students
Sun. May. 5	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Fun Facts about Plankton in Lake Biwa	Shinichi Nakano, Professor, Center for Ecological Research	All elementary grade students
Mon. May. 6		Making Masks by Art Lecturer		All elementary grade students
Sat. May. 11		Exploring Nature(Search for Creatures)		All elementary grade students
Sun. May. 12	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	The Mysterious World of Numbers	Tetsufumi Ito, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science	All elementary grade students
Sat. May. 18		Making Kaleidoscopes		All elementary grade students
Sun. May. 19	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let’s Learn About Hydrogen Energy with LEGO!	Juro Yagi, Associate Professor, Institute of Advanced Energy	All elementary grade students
Sat. May. 25		Programming		All elementary grade students
Sun. May. 26	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's explore the secrets of plants!	Tomohiko Tsuge, Associate Professor, Institute for Chemical Research	All elementary grade students

Jun. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sat. Jun. 1	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Crocodiles Growl, Monkeys Howl, Humans Sing!	Takeshi Nishimura Associate Professor Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sun. Jun. 2		Making Paper Beads		All elementary grade students
Sat. Jun. 8	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Learning about iPS cells with Card Games	Hiroyuki Wadahama Program-Specific Researcher Center for iPS Cell Research and Application	All elementary grade students
Sun. Jun. 9		Making Sensory Bottles		All elementary grade students
Sat. Jun. 15		Kamo River Walk: Let's Take Early Summer Photos with an iPad!		All elementary grade students
Sun. Jun. 16		Programming		All elementary grade students
Sat. Jun. 22		Cardboard Crafts: 3D Pop-Up Picture Books		All elementary grade students
Sun. Jun. 23	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Academic program on medicinal herb was held by Kyoto University students.	Hina Nishimura Second-year master's student Graduate School of Letters	All elementary grade students
Sat. Jun. 29		Making Colorful 3D Umbrellas
Sun. Jun. 30	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Let's Look into the Mysteries of the Body!	Tomoko Wakamura Professor Graduate School of Medicine	All elementary grade students

Jul. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sat. Jul. 6		Making Tanabata Decorations
Sun. Jul. 7	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	The Mysteries of Electricity and Temperature	Itsuhiro Kakeya Associate Professor Graduate School of Engineering	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sat. Jul. 13	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	(Parents and children can participate) Picture book reading & doodling workshops *The event will be organised by the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, a German cultural institution. Pasona Foster staff will escort your child from KuSuKu to the site. For more information, please see below. https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/de/ver.cfm?event_id=25757909 (German version)	Hiroko Hori Library/Residence Program Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Jul. 14	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	What Kind of Animals Were Dinosaurs?	Takeshi Setoguchi Director Kyoto Municipal Science Center for Youth (Professor Emeritus)	Open to all elementary grade students
Mon. Jul. 15	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Hatch Cicada Eggs!	Hideharu Numata Program-Specific Professor (Professor Emeritus) Kyoto University Research Administration Center (KURA)	Open to all elementary grade students
Sat. Jul. 20	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Get to Know the Baby in the Tummy!	Chifumi Otaki, Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Medicine	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Jul. 21	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Turn and compare Earth and planets	Astronomy Outreach Student Group "ASUCHIKA"	Open to all elementary grade students
Tue. Jul. 23	10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m.	Cardboard Crafts: Squid Airplanes (Parents and children can participate) Paste and tear magic show 　(Have fun learning math through magic tricks while sticking and tearing paper strips!)	Tadashi Tokieda, Professor, Stanford University	Open to all elementary grade students
Wed. Jul. 24	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Cut, Knit, & Learn: Papercraft Seismology	Masumi Yamada Associate Professor Disaster Prevention Research Institute	Open to all elementary grade students
Thu. Jul. 25	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Regenerate Immune Cells to Fight Cancer and Viruses!	Hiroshi Kawamoto, Director and Professor Hiromi Sumita, Program-Specific Assistant Professor Institute for Life and Medical Sciences	Open to all elementary grade students
Fri. Jul. 26		Making Water Pistols
Sat.Jul. 27	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Head into Town for Jizo-Bon!	Masahiro Maeda Associate Professor Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Jul. 28		Making Wind Chimes
Mon. Jul. 29	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	The Future: Where Electricity Comes from the Sky, and Batteries Never Run Out(TBD)	Naoki Shinohara Professor Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Tue. Jul. 30	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	The Mystery of Tails: Understanding People through "Tail-ology"	Sayaka Tojima Program-Specific Assistant Professor Hakubi Center for Advanced Research	Open to all elementary grade students
Wed. Jul. 31	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Viruses Can Be Fun?!	Akiko Makino Associate Professor Institute for Life and Medical Sciences	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)

Aug. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Thu. Aug. 1		Let's Draw Pictures Using All Five Senses!
Fri. Aug. 2	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Tough Stories from the Sea: The Great Adventures of a Baby Fish	Masatomo Tagawa Associate Professor Graduate School of Agriculture	Open to all elementary grade students
Sat. Aug. 3		Closed for facility maintenance
Sun. Aug. 4		Making interesting slime
Mon. Aug. 5	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Check Out Trilobites! *Postponed: Instead, we will offer an experiential program by Pasona Foster.	Terufumi Ohno, Professor Emeritus (KU Museum)	Open to all elementary grade students
Tue. Aug. 6		Cardboard Crafts: Let's Make Pictures with Scraps
Wed. Aug. 7	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Parenting of Adelie penguins in Antarctica	Nobuaki Arai Professor Emeritus	TBD
Thu. Aug. 8	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Listen to the sounds of dugongs, dolphins and penguins!	Kotaro Ichikawa Associate Professor Field Science Education and Research Center	TBD
Fri. Aug. 9		Cardboard Crafts: Let's Make Pictures with Scraps
Sat. Aug. 10	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Make Fractal Shapes and Have Fun with Shadows!	Hideki Tsuiki Professor Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sun. Aug. 11		Painting Advisor Day
Mon. Aug. 12		Closed
Tue. Aug. 13		Closed
Wed. Aug. 14		Closed
Thu. Aug. 15		Closed
Fri. Aug. 16		Closed
Sat. Aug. 17		Free Research / Solar Lanterns
Sun. Aug. 18		Summer Festival
Mon. Aug. 19		Kid's Expo
Tue. Aug. 20	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	What you Can Learn by Studying Rocks while Camping in Antarctica (tentative title)	Tetsuo Kawakami Professor Graduate School of Science	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Wed. Aug. 21		Thinking With Your Body: Let's Play With Time, Speed, and Distance
Thu. Aug. 22	10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.	Can you do it well? Let's master the use of chest compressions and AED using an iPad!	Taku Iwami, Professor Chika Nishiyama, Associate Professor Graduate School of Medicine	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Fri. Aug. 23	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Good for One, But Bad for the Other?―Thinking About Our Food Supply Systems	Yayoi Kito Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Agriculture	Upper elementary grade students (recommended)
Sat. Aug. 24		Programming
Sun. Aug. 25		Make Your Own Insect-opedia!
Sat. Aug. 31		Thinking With Your Body: Let's Play With Dots, Lines, and Surfaces

Sep. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sun. Sep. 1	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Experiments, Experiments, and More Experiments! Dynamics of the blowgun	Haruhiko Funahashi Professor Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences	Open to all elementary grade students
Sat. Sep. 7		Make a Flying Squid
Sun. Sep. 8		Stained Glass Bookmarks
Sat. Sep. 14	10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Have You Heard of Polymers? Unbreakable String, Unburnable Cloth, and Magic Powder That Absorbs a Thousand Times More Water	Yoshiki Chujo Professor Emeritus	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Sep. 15		Programming
Mon. Sep. 16		Writing Haiku for the Season
Sat. Sep. 21	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Anything Can be Used to Make a Painting	Sota Koike Illustrator and picture book author	Lower elementary grade students (recommended)
Sun. Sep. 22		Want to Be a Detective? Fingerprint Investigation
Mon. Sep. 23	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Look at Weeds!	Yoshiko Shimono Associate Professor Graduate School of Agriculture	Open to all elementary grade students
Sat. Sep. 28	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	What Kind of Creature is a Slug?	Hiroko Udaka Assistant Professor Graduate School of Science	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Sep. 29		Searching for Creatures Along the Kamo River

Oct. 2024

Date and Time		Title of the Program	Teacher	Eligibility (Recommended)
Sat. Oct. 5	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Mysteries of the Sun and the Universe	Ayumi Asai Associate Professor Graduate School of Science	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Oct. 6		Making a Sound Box
Sat. Oct. 12		SDGs/Collecting Trash Along the Kamo River
Sun. Oct. 13	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Let's Touch Trees and Wood	Miyuki Matsuo Associate Professor Graduate School of Agriculture	Open to all elementary grade students
Mon. Oct. 14		Programming
Sat. Oct. 19	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Learn About the Elements with a Quiz	Kouichi Hagino Professor Graduate School of Science	Lower elementary grade students (recommended)
Sun. Oct. 20		Make a Halloween Bucket
Sat. Oct. 26	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Look at the Glowing Plankton!	Yuichi Tsunoyama Associate Professor Agency for Health, Safety and Environment	Open to all elementary grade students
Sun. Oct. 27	10:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Making Halloween Cookies Kyoto University Exploration(Faculty of Medicine Campus)	Michitaka Inami, Section Chief Yukari Tsubouchi, Technical Staff Facilities Department	Open to all elementary grade students