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Kimono Collagraph Prints

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students gain an appreciation for art/textiles for Japan. They use different textures to create a collagraph plate. They hand color a print with colored pencil to create interest.
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Koi Pond

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students engage in a creative project of making a paper koi pond meant to illustrate the type of life that can be found in the pond ecosystem. They build cultural appreciation for the Japanese by researching the use of the koi ponds.
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Magpies across the milky way

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make origami birds after studying about Asian legends and culture. In this Asian legends lesson plan, students also learn about Asian art, constellations, and the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Papel Picado ( Mexican Cut Paper)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders describe the characteristics of a piece of "papel picado", or Mexican cut paper, which is seen in the Dia de los Muertos festival. They predict what medium was used in the papel picado art. They explain how the scene in the...
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JAPAN, IMAGES A PEOPLE

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students interpret Japanese and American paintings; evaluate paintings as sources of cultural and historical information
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Langston Hughes: Artist and Historian

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the life and works of Langston Hughes. In groups, they research the characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance and how Hughes' poems relate to the era. They use the themes in his writings and relate it to the Great...
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Sadako

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners engage in a literature study in order to comprehend the times of the Japanese during World War II. Specifically they look at the life of a little girl named Sadako in Hiroshima and how she overcomes her deadly disease of Leukemia.
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Are You Happy?

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this language arts instructional activity, students practice writing answers to common questions. Students read 32 questions and write short answers. Example: Are you happy? (No, I'm not.)
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Transportation Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language.  In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place.  Students answer...
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Sadako And the Thousand Paper Cranes

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students are asked to write a letter that the story character may have written. They are asked to write about ways to spread peace and hope throughout the world.
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Seasonal Scroll Painting

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students take a field trip to a Botanical Gardens. They observe plants and the seasonal changes they go through and create their own scroll painting.
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What is Manga?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students research graphic novels. In this manga lesson, students work in small groups as the read graphic novels in literature circle format.
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Japan: Images of A People

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study Japan and explore the use of screens.
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Adjective Order 1

For Students 5th - 8th
In this adjective order learning exercise, students must choose the correct order of adjectives from four given choices. Students must determine the proper order of four adjectives for each question.
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Kitano Takeshi

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Kitano Takeshi instructional activity, students read a passage about Kitano Takeshi and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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Fear, Civil Rights and Personal Freedoms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write and perform a one-act play. They present constitutional, personal and cultural issues of the internment camps of the 1940's. They research and present a historical examine internernment camps.
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A Boy at War: A novel about Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This A Boy At War PowerPoint introduces the historical context of the novel and information about the novel's author. Facts and trivia about Pearl Harbor that are relevant to the novel's plot are reviewed. Historical photos and a map of...
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The Attack On Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Pearl Harbor worksheet, students read about what happened on December 7th, 1941, read Roosevelt's speech in response, and complete activities in the passive voice about what they read. Students write the past participle of 10...
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Ayumi Hamasaki

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous people learning exercise, learners read a passage about Ayumi Hamasaki and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...
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Chiro Suzuki

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Chiro Suzuki and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Tadao Ando

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people learning exercise, students read a selection about Tadao Ando and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to a synonym match, spelling, writing and sequencing activities.
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Dressing for the Heat in Japan

For Students 5th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, learners select the correct connector from the list of 10 options and fill in the blanks of the sentences. There are 11 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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Soccer: Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this reading comprehension activity worksheet, students read a 1 page selection entitled "Soccer". Students respond to 12 multiple choice questions pertaining to the passage.
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Correct the Mistake

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this correcting grammatical errors in sentences worksheet, students read sentences, identify the wrong words, and check their answers in the pop-up online/interactive answer button. Students correct 9 errors.

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