Title |
URL Address |
Notations |
Japanese Food
 |
Kids Window Restaurant
http://www.jwindow.net/ OLD/KIDS/REST/ JapaneseCookbook for Kids http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/cook.html |
Visit the
sites on food and restaurants.
Activity: Find a recipe, for a traditional Japanese dish. Copy it on a card. Prepare it and serve to your classmates. |
| Origami
|
Kids Web Virtual Origami:
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/ virtual/origami/origami.html |
Shows pictures
and movies on how to make an origami crane, helmet and an airplane.
Activity: Create an origami animal or objects. |
| Legends
|
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/folk.html | Legends
are important in Japan. Read some famous legends.
Activity:Write a legend about an animal who lives in a small Japanese town. |
| Ikebana:
Flower Arranging |
Kids Web Virtual Ikebana
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/ virtual/ikebana/ikebana.html |
Pictures
of Japanese flower arranging
Activity: Study Japanese flower arranging and create a small display for the class using flowers or leaves from your yard. |
| Japanese Online
|
Language Class for three Dialects
http://www.jwindow.net/ OLD/KIDS/SCHOOL/LANG/ KidsWeb Language Lab http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/language.html Japanese On-line Language Index http://www.japanese-online.com/l anguage/LSNIndex.HTM |
Lessons
to learn Japan.
Activity: Have your parents help you learn to count to ten in Japanese or learn two basic phrases. |
| Puppets
|
How to make a Bunraku Puppet
http://www.mahoroba.or.jp/ ~bunraku/seisa-e.htm Bunraku http://www.jnto.go.jp/04budhint/ special/Bunraku.fldr/Bunraku.html |
Banraku
Puppet shows
Activity: Write a puppet show or create a puppet out of "stuff" in your house. NO wood carving allowed. |
| Mt. Fuji &
Volcanoes |
Volcanos of Japan
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/ volc_images/north_asia/japan_tec.html |
Japan is
a series of islands formed by volcanoes.
Activity: Create a volcano. |
| Japanese Kites
|
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/
~et3m-tkkw/index.html |
View photos
of many Japanese kites or read directions of how to make a kites
Activity: Paint or draw a picture of a design for a kite or follow the directions to build a kite to fly. |
| Haiku
|
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/japan/
d/q2.html |
The poetry
form called Haiku was developed in Japan. Read how to write haiku.
Activity: Write a haiku about spring. |
| Japanese Writing
|
http://members.aol.com/writejapan/index.htm | Three different character sets are used to write Japanese.
Activity: Study one character set and practice writing one character to demonstrate to the class. |
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