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| Japanese Holidays |
Research Japanese holidays and compare them with holidays celebrated in your home.
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| Story Starter Photos |
These are some of my favorite images of Japan. These are photographs that can be used as story starters for children. For example, the cat picture could be used to inspire a story told from the cat's point of view.
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| Lesson Plan Data Base |
Indiana University provides a variety of lesson plans for US-Japanese Studies. There are also links to many other useful sites.
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| Online Games and Activities |
One more area that is wonderful, provided by Indiana University. Students can learn about many parts of Japan and Japanese culture using games posted on this site.
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| Sadako |
This activity packet is for use with the book Sadako. Many of the pages are based on information from a other resources.
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| Create a Meal |
Practice the Japanese language as you listen to the pronunciation of foods and create your meals for a day.
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| Steffens's Activities |
These are activities that Dr. Steffens created after her experience in Japan in 2000.
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| Kamishibai |
This site provides information about Kamishibai, a traditional method of storytelling in Japan. Also, there is a link to ideas for teachers to use and an actual kamishibai story. This site is part of the Indiana University site.
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| Japan Online Project |
A posting of lessons (for upper elementary through high school)created by teachers for use in their classrooms.
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| Origami and Math |
This website has information about using origami in the classroom with mathematics. There is a wonderful folding activity for use with discrete math and color theory.
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