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Wood Processing Lab (Jun Tanabe)
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The lab studies the properties of wood and develops teaching materials for learning about them.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning differences in wood into lessons in making things.
Prof. Tanabe specializes in wood processing, with wood science and science education as the main research fields.
The lab studies variation in wood quality and develops teaching materials for learning about the properties of wood.
In its research on teaching materials, the lab has taken up woodworking lessons in junior high school Technology classes and materials testing machines used as teaching materials.
In the Faculty of Education, Prof. Tanabe is a faculty member in Technology Education. In graduate school, the lab belongs to the Mathematics, Science, and Technology area of the Department of School Education, Graduate School of Education.
Key terms
- Wood quality
- The properties of wood as a material, such as density, flexibility, and strength
- Clone
- A group of genetically identical individuals. For trees, it refers to trees propagated from the same parent tree
- Materials testing machine
- A device that applies force to a material and measures how much force it can withstand and how much it deforms
ResearchResearch themes
The lab pursues both research on variation in wood quality and research on developing teaching materials for learning about the properties of wood. It has developed woodworking materials for Technology classes and experimental materials for learning the basic properties of wood.
Variation in Wood Quality
The lab examines how properties such as wood density change from the center of the trunk outward in trees such as Sakhalin spruce, and how they differ among clones. In a joint study with researchers at Shizuoka University and elsewhere, it published results in 2023 on differences in wood quality among Sakhalin spruce clones and their relationship to the weather at their places of origin.
Woodworking Teaching Materials That Make Use of Differences Between Tree Species
The lab studied woodworking materials and lessons for junior high school Technology classes that make use of the different wood qualities of each tree species. It analyzed students' written responses to projects that use several tree species, and presented a classroom practice in which students choose the material for a woodworking vise.
Experimental Materials for Learning the Properties of Wood
Centered on wood science, the lab developed and tested experimental materials that foster inquiry-based and creative thinking. In 2025 it wrote up the features and educational significance of materials testing machines as teaching materials in a paper, and it also ran a lecture in a teacher training program on developing a materials testing machine.
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- Associate ProfessorJun Tanabe
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