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Our classes made salt and flour maps of the
four main islands of Japan.
Start by pasting a copy of a map to
cardboard, mix
ingredients, and put compound over map.
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If possible, try to be sure to incorporate
topography into the lesson.
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Paint and label and show it off!
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We rented two museum
teaching kits from the Boston
Children's Museum. The kits gave us some
of the ideas for our projects.
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It's important to explore the three
different styles of Japanese writing - Hirigana, Katakana,
and Kanji.
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And, of course, origami is very important.
Our younger children made the cat and the samurai
helmet.
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We explored the way the Japanese dress
traditionally
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and the way they eat.
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One of the kits
we rented had some exhibit materials.
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We explored the World Wide Web using
John Donaldson's site and others. The children used worksheets to focus their learning.
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Every theme should be celebrated with an
open house.
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This bulletin board directs people to come
to our open house.
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