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		My Geography Adventure to Japan A project to help children learn about the culture and country of Japan through research and creative fun.
	Learn about the culture and country of Japan through this creative research project almost guaranteed to bring a smile to your learners face. Suitable for Gr. 4 and higher, this project combines using multiple sources for research with narration, art, and creativity as learners pretend to travel to Japan to visit a cousin. My Geography Adventure to Japan Project is a fun way to learn as well as present information about Japan and it's people. Each project challenges learners to answer fifteen What I Want to Know questions covering such topics as geographical information, culture, educational system, current political leadership, economy, currency, transportation, holidays, religion, family customs, everyday living, and more. Learners provide a written narration or account of the information in their project notebook. The real creative fun is in the illustrations. Each project has graphics to represent your learner (either boy or girl) as well as a graphic to represent the main project character. Our main character in this project is a nine year old girl named Mizuki. Learners use the included graphics to represent themselves as well as the main character in their adventures in Japan. Narrations could easily be done with the one to one rule - one question answered on one page using at least one graphic character to illustrate or add interest to the content. Other graphics, photos, brochures, clippings, etc. could also be add additional interest. You are encouraged to use any number of resources you may have at home, to help learners complete the project. These could be books, videos, magazines, etc. The internet is a very handy resource as well. Be careful to monitor websites for content changes which may have occurred after publication of this project. See the pictures above for examples.
Project Overview Steps: Step 1: Print out the My Geography Adventure to Japan.PDF file. File will include instruction sheet and project sheets. Step 2: Prepare project notebook. Read through the instruction sheet and prepare your project notebook. You may print out the following pages and glue into a marble notebook or other notebook, or print and glue onto half of a file folder to be bound on the left hand side with brags when completed. Simply cut on the blue lines to make this project suitable for notebook use. You could also just print it out and use as is. These were designed for smaller notebook use and so they may not centered for single sheet use. Step 3: Go over the project and its goals with your learner. Step 4: Provide the support for your learner complete this project with lots of personal encouragement and resources from your shelf at home, your local library, or the internet.
Project Files Select the resources you would like to use and download it by right clicking on the link and selecting "save target as."
Basic Files My Geography Adventure to Japan .PDF file				Additional Resources Images of International Flags Images of Maps My Book Mini-book about St. Maximilian Kolbe Saint Biography Research Template My Book Mini-book about Japan
Internet Resources www.web-japan.org/kidsweb/ - Main suggested resource in this project. You will find lots of information here about kids in Japan, customs and the actual school that our fictitious main character attends - Tokamachi Elementary School. www.countryreports.org/kidslife/ - Good site for children to learn about many countries and cultures of the world. Saints.sqpn.com - A very large database of saint biographies Printed resources that we have used with this project Japan (Color & Learn), Illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Edupress Inc. Japan (Country Topics) by S&R Tames, Franklin Watts Publishing Japan (Letters From Around the World) by Alison Brownlie, CherryTree Publishing Japan, World Country Series by Jane Whitear, S&S Publishing The Reader's Digest Children's Atlas of the World, Edited by Colin Sale, Reader's Digest Children's Books

J.M.J.

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My Geography Adventure to Japan

A project to help children learn about the culture and country of Japan through research and creative fun.

Step 1: Print out the My Geography Adventure to Japan.PDF file.

Step 2: Prepare project notebook.

Step 3: Go over the project and its goals with your learner.

Step 4: Provide the support for your learner complete this project with lots of personal encouragement and resources from your shelf at home, your local library, or the internet.