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AUTHOR Brooks, Elizabeth TITLE Guide to Teaching Materials on Japan. Revised edition of the 1994 Database of Teaching Materials on Japan INSTITUTION ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Bloomington, IN.; National Clearinghouse for United States-Japan Studies, Bloomington, IN. SPONS AGENCY Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 95 CONTRACT RR93002014 NOTE 71p. AVAILABLE FROMSocial Studies/Social Science Education, Social Studies Development Center, Indiana University, 2805 East Tenth Street, Suite 120, Bloomington, IN 47408-2698. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) Information Analyses ERIC Clearinghouse Products (071)

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; Area Studies; *Asian Studies; *Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Activities; *Cultural Awareness; *Cultural Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Foreign Culture; Global Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Japanese; Languages; Multicultural Education; Non Western Civilization; Social Studies IDENTIFIERS *Japan

ABSTRACT This booklet is the printed version of an on-line database of teaching materials on Japan. The book is divided into four parts. Each part contains bibliographic information on resources for teaching about Japan at specific grade levels or subject areas. Part 1, "Elementary School Materials," includes:(1) "Art Education"; (2) "Geography";(3) "Global Education";(4) "Japanese Language"; (5) "Language Arts"; and (6) "Social Studies." Part 2, "Secondary School Materials," contains:(1) "Art Education";(2) "Economics"; (3) "Geography"; (4) "Global Education";(5) "Japanese Language"; (6) "Language Arts"; (7)"Social Studies"; and (8) "World History." Part 3, "K-12 School Materials," includes: (1) "Art Education"; (2) "Economics"; (3) "Geography"; (4)"Global Education";(5) "Japanese Language";(6) "Language Arts";(7) "Social Studies"; and (8) "World History." Part 4, "Appendix," contains an order form for ERIC Documents. (EH)

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Guide to Teaching MaterialsonJapan*

Elizabeth Brooks

National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies and the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education

*Revised edition of the 1994 Database of Teaching Materials on Japan Ordering Information

This publication is available from:

Publications Manager Social Studies Development Center Indiana University 2805 East Tenth Street, Suite 120 Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2698 (812) 855-3838 (800) 266-3815 FAX: (812) 855-0455

Revised in 1995 by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education and the National Clearinghouse for United States-Japan Studies.

Funding for the development of this publication was provided by the Center for Global Partnership, United States Japan Foundation, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, under contract RR93002014. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of any organization listed above.

IERICI ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center, is an information system sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, within the U.S. Department of Education.

1 Table of Contents

Foreword by Elizabeth Brooks iv

The ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS) and The National Clearinghouse for United States-Japan Studies

Part 1.Elementary School Materials 1

Art Education 3 Geography 5 Global Education 7 Japanese Language 8 Language Arts 10 Social Studies 12

Part 2.Secondary School Materials 17

Art Education 19 Economics 21 Geography 24 Global Education 26 Japanese Language 28 Language Arts 29 Social Studies 31 World History 39

Part 3.K-12 School Materials 43

Art Education 45 Economic! 49 Geography 50 Global Education 52 Japanese Language 53 Language Arts 54 Social Studies 5'7 World History 65

Part 4.Appendix 67

Order Form for ERIC Documents 69 Foreword

This publication is the printed version of an online database of teaching materials on Japan. The online version is accessible in two ways: through Gopher and through the World Wide Web. The

Gopher version is located at the AskERIC Virtual Library. Gopher or telnet to: ericir.syr.edu.

Once at the AskERIC Virtual Library, choose "Clearinghouses," then "Adjuncts," then "National

Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies," then "K-12 Teaching Materials on Japan". To access the database through the World Wide Web, go to the Clearinghouse home page. The address is: http://www.indiana.edu/ japan. From the home page, select "Other Online Resources" and then select "K-12 Teaching Materials on Japan."

NOTE: Many of the items in the printed version are cross-referenced under more than one subject heading.Alsu, many of the items referred to are available through the ERIC (Educational

Resources Information Center) database. An order form for ERIC documents is included in the

Appendix.

Other records were selected from A Catalogue of A. V. Materials, Resources, and Organizations from the East Asian Resource & Education Program at Yale (1993), the Pacific-Rim Publishers

Catalogue 11995), Social Science Education Consortium (SSEC) Publications Catalog (1994-1995),

Social Studies School Service Catalog (1994), and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-

Cultural Education (SPICE) Catalog (1994-1995).

The National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies seeks to make its services and publications

easily accessiblein any format that suits the needs of our audience.If you would like our services

provided in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Elizabeth Brooks, Associate Director National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies May 1995

iv The ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education

The ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS) is one of the 16 subject clearinghouses in the ERIC system. ERIC/ChESS monitors issues about the teaching and learning of history, geography, civics, economics, and political science, as typically taught in the K- 12 curriculum. ERIC/ChESS covers other topics, such as law-related education, art education, and music education. ERIC/ChESS offers a variety of products and services to meet your information needs: PublicatiGnsrange from classroom materials to analyses of theories and trends; all are available for you purchase, as well as being available from the ERIC database. ERIC/ChESS also produces brief information products called Digests. Digests are reports on social studies/social science education issues of current interest. News BulletinKeeping Uphelps keep you current with recent developments in ERIC, ERIC/ChESS, and social studies education.It is free of charge. Digest Subscription Serviceanyone interested in obtaining an entire year's worth of Digests (8-10 per year) can subscribe to this service. The cost is $5.00. The Digests are sent as they are published. Database Search Servicecustomized CD-ROM computer searches of the ERIC database on a requested topic for $3.00. Such a search will yield an annotated bibliography of up to 25 documents and journal articles from the ERIC database. Question Answering Serviceour staff is always eager to answer specific questions about our areas of subject expertise or general questions about ERIC. We have atoll free telephone number, 800/266-3815. You can e-mail us at [email protected] or visit us at our World Wide Web homepage. That address is: http://www.indiana.edu/ ssdderic-chess.html .

The National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies

The National Clearinghouse for U.S. Japan Studies, an adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse affiliated with ERIC/ChESS, provides a wealth of information on Japan for K-12 educators and specialists. Co-funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the United States-Japan Foundation of New York, the Clearinghouse is a database system.It provides timely and comprehensive information about educational resources for teaching about Japan. The Clearinghouse collects, analyzes, abstracts, and sustains a database of materials and resources that can assist school systems and individual teachersin developing and implementing curricula and lessons on broad areas of Japanese culture and society, and on U.S.-Japan relationships. Many of the resources in the Clearinghouse database are cross-referenced in ERIC. However, the Clearinghouse database also includes videos, films, some simulations, and artifact kits. The National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies services include: FREE Information Database Search Service. Reduce time and trim expenses by letting a trained searcher locate and compile information on any topic, including: Japanese education, instructional materials, annotated bibliographies, and background reading materials. FREE Publications. These include an annual newsletter, Shinbun-USA, and Japan Digests, two-page summaries of current topics on Japan. ' Part 1: Elementary School Materials Art Education

Japan: Images and Words (1994) Our International Art Exchange Project Price: $24, plus $4.50 s/h. (1989) Availability: Author: Cocciolone, Kathy R. School and Family Programs Availability: School Arts 88 (May 1989): Freer/Sackler Gallery, MRC 707 9-11. Washington, DC 20560 202/786-2087 This teaching guide discusses an international This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the art exchange project designed to teach students collection of Japanese art at the Freer Gallery. that the culture of a country is reflected in its The packet includes six posters, six slides, and art.Countries included are Saudi Arabia, six black-and-white prints. Three lesson plans Egypt, Japan, and India. and activities introduce students to paintings in Grade Level: K-6 Japan and bring Japanese art and literature Subject Areas: Art Education, Global into the classroom. Education Grade Level: 6 Subject Areas: Art Education, In Maruki and Toshi Maruki: "Water" Language Arts (1988) Author: Koetsch, Peg Technology and Thematic Units: An Availability: Art Education 41 (May 1988): Elementary Example on Japan (1993) 27-28. Author: Wepner, Shelley B. This is a lesson plan that uses "Water," by Iri Availability: Reading Teacher 46 (February and Toshi Maruld, to provide students with an 1993): 442-45. approach to artwork that deals with This teaching guide uses a thematic unit on devastating current events. Japan to show how software can become an Grade Level: 4-6 additional resource for elementary students' Subject Areas: Art Education literacy learning in social studies, science, Notes that the five language arts, and art. Haniwa Figure of a Horse (1988) week unit addresses Japan's culture and Author: Park, Tad customs. Availability: Art Education 41 (September Grade Level: K-6 1988): 25-26. Subject Areas: Art Education, This lesson plan uses a "haniwa" figure of a Language Arts, Social Studies horse to introduce students to Japanese Sumi-e Painting (1989) ceramic sculpture.It presents instructional Author: Gluekert, Alan strategies, and a photograph of the figure. Availability: School Arts 88 (May 1989): Grade Level: K-3 27-29. Subject Areas: Art Education This teaching guide describes an activity which involves a demonstration of Japanese "sumi-e" painting, with its emphasis on simplicity.Includes a chart showing the seven basic "sumi-e" strokes. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Art Education

3 Origami: Paper FoldingThe Algorithmic Way (1988) Author: Heukerott, Pamela Beth Availability: Arithmetic Teacher 35 (January 1988): 4-8. This article describes origami, the art of paper folding, as an activity to teach upper elementary students concepts and skills in geometry involving polygons, angles, measurement, symmetry, and congruence. Grade Level: 4-6 Subject Areas: Art Ed ication

Japan Activity Sheets Price: $5.95 Availability. Children's Museum Shop 300 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210 617/426-6500, ext. 236 This packet of ten activity sheets includes directions for making carp streamers, paper dolls, New Year's cards, chopsticks, paper samurai helmets, and fish printing. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Art Education

4 Geography

A Cultural Experience: Japan (1992) Journey Through Japan (1991) Author: Wood, Robert W., and others. Author: Tames, Richard Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Price: $3.95 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Availability: ED Number: ED 350 222 International Book Centre, Inc. This activities unit (179 pages) utilizes 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 principles of global education to teach about Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Japan. The activities explore seven major This book introduces students to the human goals included in the social studies geography of Japan. Each pair of facing curriculum: citizenship, multi-ethnicity, pages describes and illustrates sights in a economic understanding, effective decision- particular area of the country, as well as other making, sensitivity to time and space, cultural, historic, and economic features that examination and use of information, and are found in the area. The text guides readers analysis and adaptation to a changing world. from one area to an adjacent one, beginning The unit focuses on four major areas: with Tokyo, and progressing southwest-ward geography, government, culture, and through cities like Kamakura, Kyoto, and education. A 36-item list of refeiences is Osaka to the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. included. The text briefly mentions sumo wrestling, the Grade Level: K-6 martial arts of judo and kendo, major Subject Areas: Geography, Glot al festivals, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, Education, Social Studies large birds and mammals, gardens, and hot springs. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

5 Symbolism in Japanese Language and Discovering Japan Today: A Three-Week Culture: Activities for the Elementary Teaching-Learning Unit for Upper Classroom (1991) Elementary Grades (1988) Price: $64.95 Author: Kirkwood, Toni Fuss Availability: Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. SPICE Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Littlefield Center, Room 14C ED Number: ED 302 489 Stanford University The three sections of this unit cover artifacts, Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 geography, and the cultural and social This multimedia unit exposes students to the background of the Japanese. Seven suggested language and culture of Japan though lessons additional class activities and four maps are on folktales, greetings, rice in Japmese also included. culture, artifacts, geography, and global Grade Level: 4-6 perspective. The unit contains thirteen lessons Subject Areas: Geography, Social (121 pages), 27 slides, an artifact, an Studies audiotape, and a videotape. All necessary background materials are provided. Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Japanese Language, Social Studies

Stepping Stones: Teaching about Japan in Elementary Grades (1988) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. EDRS, 8001443-3742 ED Number: ED 329 487 These lesson plans come from teachers who participated in the Keizai Koho Center Fellowship program. The major sections include: Motivational Activities, Land and People, "Hand<.-On" Experiences, Economic Interdependence, Culture and Customs, Perceptions of the Past, and Culminating Activities. Grade Level: 4-6 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

6 Global Education

Global Issues in the Elementary Classroom Multicultural Education Resource Book, (1993) K-4 (1989) Price: $21.95 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 SSEC ED Number: ED 320 844 P.O. Box 21270 This collection of creative classroom activity Boulder, CO 80308-4270, 303/492-8154 units uses a multicultural approach to teach This resource contains 27 ready-to-use various subjects such as language arts, lessons. The sections include: globai mathematics, music, science, social studies, awareness, global issues and problems, and and home economics. The activity on Japan global history. Varied teaching strategies are focuses on optical and geometric art. used to help students explore such topics as Grade Level: K-4 toys (including Japanese lanterns), folktales, Subject Areas: Global Education, Social music, and economic interdependence. Studies Japaliese proverbs are also included. Grade Level: K-6 Our International ArtExchange Project Subject Areas: Global Education, Social (1989) Studies Author: Cocciolone, Kathy R. Availabny: School Arts 88 (May 1989): A Cultural Experience: Japan (1992) 9-11. Author: Wood, Robert W., and others. This teaching guide discusses an international Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. art exchange project designed to teach students Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742. that the culture of a country is reflected in its ED Number: ED 350 222 art.Countries included are Saudi Arabia, This activities unit (179 pages) utilizes Egypt, Japan, and India. principles of global education to teach about Grade Level: K-6 Japan. The activities explore seven major Subject Areas: Art Education, Global goals included in the social studies Education curriculum: citizenship, multi-ethnicity, economic understanding, effective decision- making, sensitivity to time and space, examination and use of information, and analysis and adaptation to a changing world. The unit focuses on four major areas: geography, government, culture, and education. A 36-item list of references is included. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Geography, Global Education, Social Studies Japanese Language

Obon (1994) A Peek at Japan: A Lighthearted Look at Author: Suyenaga, Ruth Japan's Language and Culture, Price: $8.95 paperback; $7.95 audiotape; Expanded Edition (1992) $4.95 teaching guide. Author: Metcalf, Florence E. Availability: Price: $14.95 Shen's Books and Supplies Availability: International Book Centre Inc. 821 S. First Avenue 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 Arcadia, CA 91006 800/456-6660 Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 This multimedia unit contains a picture book This book is designed to introduce young that tells the story of a Japanese American girl children to the language, history, and customs who experiences "Obon" (a Japanese summer of the Japanese. Ten chapters dealith a festival) for the first time. The teaching guide variety of themes, from the Japanese home provides background :nformation on "Obon" and school, to favorite children's songs, in Japan and the United States, and lists class stories, and activities like origami. Students activities. The audiotape contains an also learn about Japanese holidays, recipes, interactive language lesson. geographic and historical sites, and symbols of Grade Level: K-6 the Japanese nation, including the Emperor, Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Social currency, and stamps. Each page combines Studies black-and-white sketches or photos, with both Japanese words and phrases, and short Kamishibai for Kids (1993) explanations of the many basic elements of PriLe: $35 each (discount for 3 or more) Japanese culture. Availability: Kamishibai for Kids Grade Level: K-6 P.O. Box 20069, Park West Station Subject Areas: Japanese Language New York, NY 10025 212/662-5836 "Kamishibai" is a traditional Japanese form of Symbolism in Japanese Language and storytelling. There are a series of over 5 Culture: Activities for the Elementary "kamishibai" sets, each illustrating a different Classroom (1991) folktale. Each set offers an introduction to the Price: $64.95 art of "kamishibai," a summary of the story Availability: line, suggested preparatory activ'.....s and SPICE discussion questions, and background Littlefield Center, Room 14C explanations of items in the story. The Stanford University storycards are 10"x14" pieces of cardboard Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 with large, colorful illustrations and kanji This multimedia unit exposes students to the characters on one side, and a detailed story language and culture of Japan through lessons line on the back side, in both English and on folktales, greetings, rice in Japanese Japanese characters. culture, artifacts, and global perspective. The Grade Level: K-6 unit contains 13 lessons, 27 slides, an artifact, Subject Areas: Japanese Language, an audiotape, and a videotape.All Language Arts background materials are provided. Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Japanese Language, Social Studies

8 Teach Me Japanese (1991) Nihongo Daisuki! Japanese for Children Teach Me More...Japanese (1991) Through Games and Songs (1990) Author: Mahoney, Judy, and Naomi Satoh. Author: Hirate, Susan H., and Noriko Price: $14.95 Kawaura. Availability: Price: $19.95 International Book Centre Inc. Availability: 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 International Book Centre Inc. Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 These two booklets each utilize a coloring Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 book and cassette to teach young children This teacher's manual and set of units is for Japanese through narration and song. Each teaching first year Japanese in the elementary page of the booklet contains a black-and-white school. The authors have designed the lesson illustration, often with parallel hiragana and plans and materials to focus on oral and romanized texts that describe the picture. The listening sldlls.Unit themes include courtesy cassette provides narrations of the descriptive expressions, telling about oneself and family, texts, as well as versions of the songs, to and giving and following instructions.Other accompany the children's speaking or singing. units focus on foods and preferences, colors The booklet describes the overyday and sizes for shopping, school buildings and experiences of Mari and Tom during different supplies, animals in a zoo, a birthday party, seasons of the year. The songs include body features, and illness. Each lesson plan "Happy Birthday," "Simon Says," "Row, provides vocabulary and materials lists, as Row, Row," "Old MacDonald," "Silent well as detailed instructions for classroom Night," as well as at least 11 Japanese songs activities. Many of the activities are games, total.English translations of all songs and while others use a call-and-response format. texts are included at the end of each book. Grade Level: 4-6 Grade Level: K-3 Subject Areas: Japanese Language Subject Areas: Japanese Language Language Arts

Japan: Images and Words (1994) Technology and Thematic Units: An Price: $24, plus $4.50 s/h. Elementary Example on Japan (1993) Availability: Author: Wepner, Shelley B. School and Family Programs Availability: Reading Teacher 46 (February Smithsonian Institution, Ed. Dept. 1993): 442-45. Freer/Sackler Gallery, MRC 707 This teaching guide uses a thematic unit on Washington, DC 20560 202/786-2087 Japan to show how software can become an This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the additional resource for elementary students' collection of Japanese art at the Freer Gallery. literacy learning in social studies, science, The packet includes six posters, six slides, and language arts, and art.Notes that the five- six black-and-white prints. Three lesson plans week unit addresses Japan's culture and and activities introduce students to paintings in customs. Japan and bring Japanese art and literature Grade Level: K-6 into the classroom. Subject Areas: Art Education, Grade Level: 6 Language Arts, Socidl Studies Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Arts Symbolism in Japanese Language and Culture: Activities for the Elementary Kamishibai for Kids (1993) Classroom (1991) Price: $35 each (discount for 3 or more) Price: $64.95 Availability: Availability: Kamishibai for Kids SPICE P.O. Box 20069, Park West Station Littlefield Center, Room 14C New York, NY 10025 212/662-5836 Stanford University "Kamishibai" is a traditional Japanese form of Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 storytelling. There are a series of over five This multimedia unit exposes students to the "kamishibai" sets, each illustrating a different language and culture of Japan through lessons folktale. Each set offers an introduction to the on folktales, greetings, rice in Japanese art of "kamishibai," a summary of the story culture, artifacts, geography, and global line, suggested preparatory activities and perspective. The unit contains thirteen lessons discussion questions, and background (121 pages), 27 slides, an artifact, an explanations of items in the story. The audiotape, and a videotape.All necessary storycards are 10"x14" pieces of cardboard background materials are provided. with large, colorful illustrations and kanji Grade Level: 4-8 characters on one side, and a detailed story Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, line on the back side, in both English and Japanese Language, Social Studies Japanese characters. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Language Arts

10 Cooperation in Japan: Elementary Japan Through Folktales and Activities: A Literature Series, Part I (1990) Unit for Kindergarten (1992) Author: Mukai, Gary Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Price: $34.95 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Availability: ED Number: ED 352 212 SPICE This report describes an intervention to Littlefield Center, Room 14C improve American kindergarten children's Stanford University understanding of Japanese culture. As a result Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 of the intervention, American children's This multimedia unit includes 26 pages, 32 responses that indicated a knowledge of slides, and an audiotape. The theme of Japanese culture rose. cooperation is explored through slides of a Grade Level: Kindergarten children's literature book written and Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social illustrated in Japan, a cooperative carp Studies streamer making activity (which illustrates the Japanese tradition of flying carp streamers on Children's Day, May 5), and slides of a children's sports festival in Japan. Grade Level: K-3 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies

The Rabbit in the Moon: Folktales from China and Japan (1979) Price: $13.95 text only; $44.95 text and slides Availability: SPICE Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This 77 page teaching unit consists of six lessons and 51 slides based on eight folktales from China and Japan. Each lesson contains an introduction, instructions for the teacher, supplementary notes, vocabulary, questions for class discussion, and follow-up activities. Also included is a bibliography of books for teachers and students. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies

11 Social Studies

Obon (1994) Global Issues in the Elementary Classroom Author: Suyenaga, Ruth (1993) Price: $8.95 paperback; $7.95 audiotape; Price: $21.95 $4.95 teaching guide. Availability: Availability: SSEC Shen's Books and Supplies P.O. Box 21270 821 S. First Avenue Boulder, CO 80308-4270, 303/492-8154 Arcadia, CA 91006 800/456-6660 This resource contains 27 ready-to-use This multimedia unit contains a picture book lessons. The sections include: global that tells the story of a Japanese American girl awareness, global issues and problems, and who experiences "Obon" (a Japanese summer global history. Varied teaching strategies are festival) for the first time. The teaching guide used to help students explore such topics as provides background information on "Obon" toys (including Japanese lanterns), folktales, in Japan and the United States, and lists class music, and economic interdependence. activities. The audiotape contains an Japanese proverbs are also included. interactive language lesson. Grade Level: K-6 Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Social Studies Studies Technology and Thematic Units: An Recommended Resources on JE.pan: Grades Elementary Example on Japan (1993) K-6 (1994) Author: Wepner, Shelley B. Author: Martin, Roberta Availability: Reading Teacher 46 (February Price: $10.00 ($7, plus $3 s/h) 1993): 442-45. Availability: This teaching guide uses a thematic unit on Assn. for Asian Studies Japan to show how software can become an 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan additional resource for elementary students' Ann Arbor, MI 48109313/665-2490 literacy learning in social studies, science, This listing contains teaching materials language arts, and art.Notes that the five- reviewed by Japan experts, including week unit addresses Japan's culture and curriculum units, audiovisual resources, customs. fiction and nonfiction books, and teacher Grade Level: K-6 reference materials. Subject Areas: Art Education, Grade Level: K-6 Language Arts, Social Studies Subject Areas: Social Studies A Cultural Experience: Japan (1992) Journey Through Japan (1991) Author: Wood, Robert W., and others. Author: Tames, Richard Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Price: $3.95 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Availability: ED Number: ED 350 222 International Book Centre, Inc. This activities unit (179 pages) utilizes 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 principles of global education to teach about Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Japan. The activities explore seven major This book introduces students to the human goals included in the social studies geography of Japan. Each pair of facing curriculum: citizenship, multi-ethnicity, pages describes and illustrates sights in a economic understanding, effective decision- particular area of the country, as well as other making, sensitivity to time and space, cultural, historic, and economic features that examination and use of information, and are found in the area. The text guides readers analysis and adaptation to a changing world. from one area to an adjacent one, beginning The unit focuses on four major areas: with Tokyo, and progressing southwest-ward geography, government, culture, and through cities like Kamakura, Kyoto, and education. A 36-item list of references is Osaka to the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. included. The text briefly mentions sumo wrestling, the Grade Level: K-6 martial arts of judo and kendo, major Subject Areas: Geography, Global festivals, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, alucation, Social Studies large birds and mammals, gardens, and hot springs. Japanese Heraldry: Who Am I? (1991) Grade Level: K-6 Author: Zeni, Claire M. Subject Areas: Geography, Social Availability: Social Studies Texan 6 Studies (Winter 1991): 61-63. This lesson plan uses Japanese family crests to Symbolism in Japanese Language and motivate students to construct a family Culture: Activities for the Elementary history.It includes background information Classroom (1991) on Japanese history and culture.It also Price: $64.95 supplies a list of Japanese emblems and their Availability: symbolism. SPICE Grade Level: K-6 Littlefield Center, Room 14C Subject Areas: Social Studies Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This multimedia unit exposes students to the language and culture of Japan through lessons on follctales, greetings, rice in Japanese culture, artifacts, geography, and global perspective. The unit contains thirteen lessons (121 pages), 27 slides, an artifact, an audiotape, anc a videotape.All necessary background materials are provided. Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Japanese Language, Social studies Cooperation in Japan: Elementary West Meets East: A Study of Japan (1990) Literature Series, Part I (1990) Author: Brouillet, Judith M. Author: Mukai, Gary Availability: Social Studies Journal 19 Price: $34.95 (Spring 1990): 18-21. Availability: This article describes a first grade unit on SPICE Japan.It observes that elementary school Littlefield Center, Room 14C social studies programs should broaden Stanford University awareness of other peoples and cultures and Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 argues that commercial textbooks and This multimedia unit includes 26 pages, 32 programs seldom transmit the attitudes, slides, and an audiotape. The theme of respect, and feeling of humanness that comes cooperation is explored through slides of a from a child-centered, activity-oriented, children's literature book written and approach to the study of a country. illustrated in Japan, a cooperative carp Grade Level: 1 streamer making activity (which illustrates the Subject Areas: Social Studies Japanese tradition of flying carp streamers on Children's Day, May 5), and slides of a Multicultural Education Resource Book, children's sports festival in Japan. K-4 (1989) Grade Level: K-3 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Studies ED Number: ED 320 844 This collection of creative classroom activity Studying Japan: The Cooperative Way units uses a multicultural approach to teach (1990) various subjects such as language arts, Author: Hi Ike, Eileen mathematics, music, science, social studies, Availability: Southern Social Studies and home economics. The activity on Japan Journal 16 (Fall 1990): 33-41. focuses on optical and geometric art. This teaching guide designs an elementary Grade Level: K-4 level social studies unit with the focus on Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Japan.It provides sample units of cooperative Studies learning group projects and suggests integrating mathematics, languagc arts, Japan: Land of Samurai and Robots (1988) economics, fine arts, and science.It also lists Author: Ottenheimer, Laurance resources for obtaining more information and Price: $5.95 materials about Japan. Availability: Grade Level: K-6 Young Discovery Library Subject Areas: Social Studies 217 Main Street Ossining, NY 10562 914/945-0600 This picture book for children illustrates and explains Japanese culture, climate, agriculture, modern lifestyle, geography, religion, music, arts, sports, holidays, and traditions. Grade Level: K-4 Subject Areas: Social Studies

14 Discovering Japan Today: A Three-Week A Family in Japan (1987) Teaching-Learning Unit for Upper Author: Elidn, Judith, and Stuart Atkin. Elementary Grades (1988) Price: ,12.95 Author: Kirkwood, Toni Fuss Availability: Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. International Book Centre, Inc. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 ED Number: ED 302 489 Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 The three sections of this unit cover artifacts, This narrative describes many common geography, and the cultural and social experiences of two young Japanese boys, ages background of the Japanese. Seven suggested 7 and 13. Their family lives in the industrial additional class activities and four maps are town of Higashi Matsuyama, near Tokyo, and also included. their father is a foreman at a local factory Grade Level: 4-6 producing hydraulic equipment and robots. Subject Areas: Geography, Social The reader follows the boys through a number Studies of experiences, including a typical day at school where the boys learn calligraphy and Stepping Stones: Teaching about Japan in participate in swimming and kendo, or Elementary Grades (1988) fencing. The boys also make a holiday visit Price: Call EDRS for pricing to a Shinto shrine on "Boy's Day," as well as information. visits to a Buddhist temple and to their Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 grandmother's household Buddhist "altar". ED Number: ED 329 487 The book includes two maps and a page of These lesson plans come from teachers who brief facts about Japan. participated in the Keizai Koho Center Grade Level: K-6 Fellowship program. The major sections Subject Areas: Social Studies include: Motivational Activities, Land and People, "Hands-On" Experiences, Economic Discovery Box: Exploring Japan Through Interdependence, Culture and Customs, and Artifacts (1985) Perceptions of the Past. Price: $12.50 Grade Level: 4-6 Availability: Subject Areas: Geography, Social SPICE Studies Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This 22-page booklet suggests ways of examining cultural artifacts to hypothesize about Japanese society and compare and contrast Japan with the United States. Artifacts are not included; however, suggestions are given for creating a discovery box. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Social Studies

15 The Rabbit in the Moon: Folktales from China and Japan (1979) Price: $13.95 text only; $44.95 text and slides. Availability: SPICE Uttlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This 77-page teaching unit consists of six lessons and 51 slides based on eight folktales from China and Japan. Each lesson contains an introduction, instructions for the teacher, supplementary notes, vocabulari, questions for class discussion, and follow-up activities. Also included is a bibliography of books for teachers and students. Grade Level: K-6 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies

Japan Through Folktales and Activities: A Unit for Kindergarten (1992) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 ED Number: ED 352 212 This report describes an intervention to improve American kindergarten children's understanding of Japanese culture. As a result of the intervention, American children's responses that indicated a knowledge of Japanese culture rose. Grade Level: Kindergarten Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies

p.. 16 Part 2: Secondary School Materials Art Education

Imperial Japan: Expansion and War (1995) Multicultural Arts: An Infusion (1991) Price: $37.95 Author: Wilderberger, Elizabeth Availability: Availability: School Library Media SSEC Activities Monthly 7 (May 1991): 26-28, P.O. Box 21270 41. Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 This article presents two examples from a This unit with four lessons, slides, and 1990 curriculum guide. The first example, primary source materials uses art and designed for middle school students, shows literature to explore Japan's expansion into the Japanese gardener as a visual artist, and Asia and the P3CifiC during the first half of the emphasizes nature in aesthetic depictions twentieth centur I including architecture, horticulture, and visual Grade Level: 7-12 arts. Subject Aleas: Art Education, Language Grade Level: 7-12 Arts, Social Studies, World History Subject Areas: Art Education, Global Education Tokugawa Japan: The Great Peace and the Development of Urban Culture (1995) Go Fish! (1990) Price: $37.95 Author: Asaro, Mario Availability: Availability: School Arts 89 ',March 1990): SSEC 36-37. P.O. Box 21270 This teaching guide describes how the author Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 introduced fishprinting to a middle school. This unit with slides and primary source Students explored the origins of fishprinting materials takes an humanities approach to the and other Japanese arts, and they learned study of Japanese history during the about printmaking, collage, and painting. Tokugawa Period, when Japan almost Grade Level: 7-8 completely isolated itself from the outside Subject Areas: Art Education world.Students explore various art forms as reflections 6f social and economic change, as Ukiyo-e Kit well as religion, political ideology, and social Price: Available for loan class structure. Availability: Grade Level: 7-12 Program in Int'l Educational Resources Subject Areas: Art Education, Language East Asian Studies, Yale University Arts, Social Studies, World History P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This kit contains information and materials to make uldyo-e, Japanese-style block prints, and includes examples of three masters. Grade Level: 7-Adult Subject Areas: Art Education

19 Japan Meets the West: A Case Study in Perceptions (1988) Price: $39.95 Availability: SPICE Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This unit examines cultural perceptions through the case of historical contact between Japan and the West. The last lesson looks at mutual images of the 20th century. The areas of study are: world history/culture, American history/culture; language arts; psychology; sociology; and art appreciation. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Arts, Social Studies, World History Economics

Alaska, Japan, and the Pacific Rim: A The Japanese Economy (1990) Teacher's Resource Guide for Secondary Author: Ellington, Lucien Educators (1990) Price: $11.95 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Joint Council on Economic Education ED Number: ED 331 774 432 Park Avenue South This guide was designed to prepare Alaskan New York, NY 10016 800/338-1192 students for understanding past, present, and This collection of eight lessons includes an potential linkages between their state and the historical overview of the Japanese economy, Pacific region. The resource can be used by which gives an historical perspective to the educators from other parts of the United States economic growth of Japan. who teach about issues concerning these Grade Level: 7-12 geographic regions. The guide is divided into Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies four sections: geography, history, culture, and economics/international trade. Japan...In Pictures (1989) Grade Level: 7-12 Price: $14.95 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Availability: Global Education, Social Studies International Book Centre, Inc. 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 Central Themes for a Unit on Japan (1990) Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Price: $12.00 This book introduces middle school and high Availability: school students to the physical geography, East Asian Curriculum Project history, governmental structure, economy, and Columbia University social structures/issues of Japan. The history 420 West 118th Street section presents significant facts about Japan's New York, NY 10027 212/854-1735 prehistory through WWII and the postwar The themes addressed in this guide explain six reconstruction. The government section major themes that are distinctive and recurrent briefly describes the Constitution of 1947, and in Japanese history and culture: the the section on economy describes foreign physical/historical setting, the dynamics of trade, transportation, and agricultural, fishing, change, contemporary nations and cultures, and manufacturing products. A section on economic deve'opment in Japan, and Japan in society includes information on ethnic groups, the global conu xt.Included is a suggested religion, the educational system, and arts and outline of content for a four-week unit on sports. Japan in a world cultures social studies Grade Level: 7-12 curriculum. Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Grade Level: 7-12 Social Studies Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Social Studies

21 Japan: Opposing Viewpoints (1989) Japan and It's Hi-Tech Society (1990) Author: Bender, David L., and Bruno Price: Inquire Leone. Availability: Price: $8.95 Asian Outreach Program Availability: Oberlin Shansi Memorial Assn. Social Studies School Service 208 Wilder Hall 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Oberlin, OH 44074 216/775-8605 P.O. Box 802 This folder contains an overview of Japanese Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 history and its effect on Japan today, as well This text studies Japanese current events by as newspaper clippings with commentaries examining the opposing viewpoints in 24 organized into the following topics: how life is excerpted articles by Japanese and Western changing in Japan; Japanese investments in the economists, politicians, and scholars. The U.S. and Asia; difficulties the U.S. has in questions discussed are: Is Japan a World entering the Japanese market; Japan and the Power? Are Japan's Economic Policies Fair? U.S. in the European market; and Japan's aid Is Japan an Internally Troubled Society? to other countries. Also included are lists of Should Japan Increase Its International Role? other resources and materials, a map of Japan, Is Cooperation Between the U.S. and Japan and a Japaword hunt game. Beneficial? Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 11-Adult Subject Areas: aonomics, Social Studies, Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies World History

An Introduction to International Trade: Japan: Tradition and Change (1990) Focus on Japan and the United States Author: Ellington, Lucien (1988) Price: $12.95 (paperback); $16.95 Price: $3.00 (while supplies last) (hardcover) Availability: SPICE Longman Inc. Littlefield Center, Room 14C 95 Church Street Stanford University White Plains, NY 10601914/993-5000 Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Descriptions of contemporary Japanese life are This five-part unit examines basic terms in presented to high school students. The eight international trade, reasons why trade is chapters cover geography, early history, important, and the mechanics of importing and modern history, economy, Japanese exporting goods. The last unit is a case study institutions (educational and religious), the of trade friction between the U.S. and Japan. Japanese people, and the future of Japan. Iso included is a brief trade history of Japan. Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies

22. A Collection of Teaching Units about Japan for Secondary Social Studies Teachers (1988) Author: Barker, B., and D. Christian, comps. Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 ED Number: ED 296 935 This is a collection of eight selected secondary level units of study about Japan. The units were written by teachers who attended a study tour to Japan in 1987. Unit topics include: economy, geography, three maps of Japan, U.S. influence on Japan, WWII, music of Japan, and Japanese medicine. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Social Studies

23 - Geography

Bartholomew Japan World Travel Map Central Themes for a Unit on Japan (1990) (1992) Price: $12.00 Price: $12.95 Availability: Availability: East Asian Curriculum Project Social Studies School Service Columbia University 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 420 West 118th Street P.O. Box 802 New York, NY 10027 212/854-1735 Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 The themes addressed in this guide explain six This is a physical-political map of Japan major themes that are distinctive and recurrent measuring approximately 3'x3'.It uses a in Japanese history and culture: the conic projection and a scale of 1:2,500,000. physical/historical setting, economic The map indicates three different grades of development in Japan, and Japan in the global roads, rail and car ferry routes, airports, and context. Included is a suggested outline of international and prefecture boundaries. Also content for a four-week unit on Japan in a indicated are the elevation of volcanoes and social studies curriculum. other peaks, and the names of national parks. Grade Level: 7-12 In addition, the map offers inset maps of East Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Asia, the metropolitan area of Tokyo and Social Studies Yokohama, and the islands of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Japan...In Pictures (1989) Grade Level: 7-College Price: $14.95 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies Availability: International Book Centre, Inc. Alaska, Japan, and the Pacific Rim: A 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 Teacher's Resource Guide for Secondary Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Educators (1990) This book introduces middle school and high Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. school students to the physical geography, EDRS, 800/443-3742 history, governmental structure, economy, and ED Number: ED 331 774 social structures/issues of Japan. The history This guide was designed to prepare Alaskan section presents significant facts about Japan's students for understanding past, present, and prehistory through WWII and the postwar potential linkages between their state and the reconstruction. The government section Pacific region. The resource can be used by describes the Constitution of 1947, and the educators from other parts of the United States economy section describes foreign trade, who teach about issues concerning these transportation, and agricultural, fishing and geographic regions. The guide is divided into manufacturing products. A section on society four sections: geography, history, culture, and includes information on ethnic groups, sports, economics/international trade. religion, the educational system, and arts. Grade Level: 7-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Global Education, Social Studies Social Studies Secondary Lesson Plan: Place and Relative A Collection of Teaching Units about Japan Location (1989) for Secondary Social Studies Teachers Author: Crawford, John (1988) Availability: Social Science Record 26 Author: Barker, B., and D. Christian, (Spring 1989): 13-14. comps. This lesson plan uses Japan as an example to Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. show how place and relative location can be Availability: EDRS 800/443-3742 used to study a country. ED Number: ED 296 935 Grade Level: 7-12 This is a collection of eight selected secondary Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies level units of study about Japan. The units were written by teachers who attended a study Using Geography to Teach Comparative tour to Japan in 1987. Unit topics include: Values: Japan and the United States economy, geography, three maps of Japan, (1989) U.S. influeno: on Japan, WWH, music of Author: Plater, H. Robert Japan, and Japanese medicine. Availability: Social Education 53 (February Grade Level: 7-12 1989): 126-29. Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, This article uses baseball to introduce junior Social Studies high school students to basic differences in the way various cultures view similar events. Grade Level: 7-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

Introduction to Japan: A Workbook (1992) Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Price: $15 00 (discount for educators) Availability: Youth for Understanding Int'l Exchange Department of Education and Training 3501 Newark Street, NW Washington, DC 20016800/424-3691 This workbook is intended as a self-study guide for high school students attending an exchange program to Japan. However, it can also be used in a secondary-level class as a general overview of Japan. The sections include: an overview of Japanese history, geography, education, religion, women in Japan, U.S.-Japanese relations, trade, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Each section is supplemented with readings and activities.Also included are answer keys and a bibliography. Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Social Studies, World History Global Education

Individual Rights in International Teaching about Law and Cultures: Japan, Perspective: Lessons on Canada, Mexico, Southeast Asia (Hmong), and Mexico Japan, and Nigeria (1993) (1992) Author: Miller, Barbara, Lynn Parisi, and Author: Miller, Barbara, Lynn Parisi, and others. others. Price: $23.95 Price: $21.95 Availability: Availability: SSEC SSEC P.O. Box 21270 P.O. Box 21270 Boulder, CO 80308-4270303/492-8154 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 The four units in this book examine the This resource book explores law and culture perspectives that four unique cultures have in the United States and three groups toward individual rights. The lessons can be represented in the U.S. Each unit begins with used in world geography, culture, or history an essay on law in the culture, written from courses, as well as law classes. the perspective of an expert whose own Grade Level: 7-12 background is linked with the culture under Subject Areas: Global Education, Social study. Each essay is followed by a set of Studies lessons that examine issues related to law, culture, and the conflicts that can arise Japan and the Pacific Rim: Global Studies, between contrasting legal traditions when Second Edition (1993) immigrants come to the United States. Author: Collinwood, Dean W. Grade Level: 7-12 Price: $13.95 Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Availability: Studies Social Studies School Service 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Multicultural Arts: An Infusion (1991) P.O. Box 802 Author: Wilderberger, Elizabeth Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 Availability: School Library Media This is a book of readings about the Activities Monthly 7 (May 1991): 26-28, economic, political, and cultural aspects of 20 41. countries of the Pacific Rim. The book This article presents two examples from a begins with an essay on the Pacific Rim, 1990 curriculum guide. The first example, which describes current armed conflicts and designed for middle school students, shows the causes of political instability.Also the Japanese gardener as a visual artist, and discussed are reasons for overpopulation, emphasizes nature in aesthetic depictions uneven economic development, and the role of including architecture, horticulture, and visual Japan in economic, political, and cultural arts. identity development across the Pacific Rim. Grade Level: 7-12 Grade Level: 9-College Subject Areas: Art Education, Global Subject Areas: Global Education, Soci.11 Education Studies, World History

26 Alaska, Japan, and the Pacific Rim: A Teacher's Resource Guide for Secondary Educators (1990) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 ED Number: ED 331 774 This guide was designed to prepare Alaskan students for understanding past, present, and potential linkages between their state and the Pacific region. The resource can be used by educators from other parts of the United States who teach about issues concerning 'hese geographic regions. The guide is divided into four sections: geography, history, culture, and economics/international trade. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Global Education, Social Studies

27 Japanese Language

Konnichi Wa Japan (1994) A Homestay in Japan: An Intermediate Author: Omotani, Les Reader for Students of Japanese (1992) Price: $15.95 Author: Allen, Caron, Natsumi Watanabe, Availability: and Linda Duke. International Book Centre, Inc. Price: $16.95 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 Availability: Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Weatherhill, Inc. This is an illustrated text that introduces 41 Monroe Turnpike beginning students of Japanese to the sights, Trumbull, CT 06611 800/437-7840 history, and contemporary culture of Japan. This supplementary reader is designed for The story is narrated by a middle-school-aged third- and fourth-year students learning American, and over the course of ten Japanese. Twenty chapters tell the chapters, she describes her journey with her experienc.n of a fictional 16-year old as she own and a Japanese family across the islands spends on !. year in Kobe, Japan, as an of Japan. The two families visit major cities exchange student. Through narratives and like Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Osaka, conversations, readers encounter a variety of and during the trip, the Japanese family cultural experiences, from eating at home and explains the arts, economy, and government of in a restaurant, to public baths, Japanese Japan. Also, an entire chapter is devoted to schools, New Year's celebrations, and a visit the Hiroshima bombing. Besides serving as a to a temple. Each reading is accompanied by cultural reader, the book introduces Japanese an illustration, cultural notes in English, and a words and phrases by inserting them into the page of exercises, including short-answer, English text. true-false, and open-ended questions. Grade Level: 7-8 Grade Level: 11-Adult Subject Areas: Japanese Language Subject Areas: Japanese Language

28 Language Arts

Imperial JRpan: Expansion and War (1995) A Red Sun Emerges: A Study of Nature in Price: $37.95 Japanese Culture (1991) Availability: Author: Trafton, Joyce SSEC Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. P.O. Box 21270 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 ED Number: ED 339 632 This unit with four lessons, slides, and A collection of materials to help teachers and primary source materials uses art and students learn how the relationship of the literature to explore Japan's expansion into Japanese people to their natural surroundings Asia and the Pacific during the first half of the is integral to an understanding of Japanese twentieth century. culture. The sections include: Japan's Grade Level: 7-12 Creation, Religious and Philosophical Nature, Subject Areas: Art Education, Language The Way of the Gods, Moral Code, Shinto, Arts, Social Studies, World History Buddhism, Zen, and Confucianism, The Way of Tea, Calligraphy, Flower Arrangement, Tokugawa Japan: The Great Peace and the and Festivals. A 52-item bibliography is Development of Urban Culture (1995) included. Price: $37.95 Grade Level: 7-12 Availability: Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social SSEC Studies P.O. Box 21270 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 Religion in Japan k dd a Look at Cultural This unit with slides and primary source Transmission (1990) materials takes an humanities approach to the Author: Mukai, Gary study of Japanese history during the Price: $39.95 Tokugawa Period, when Japan almost Availability: completely isolated itself from the outside SPICE world. Students explore various art forms as Littlefield Center, Room 14C reflections of social and economic change, as Stanford University well as religion, political ideology, and social Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 class structure. The study of the religions of Shinto and Grade Level: 7-12 Buddhism in Japan leads to an exploration of Subject Areas: Art Education, Language cultural transmission. Each unit includes Arts, Social Studies, World History reproducible handouts. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies, World History

"? 29 Japan Meets the West: A Case Study in Perceptions (1988) Price: $39.95 Availability: SPICE Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 This unit examines cultural perceptions through the case of historical contact between Japan and the West. The last lesson looks at mutual images of the 20th century. The areas of study are: world history/culture, American history/culture; language arts; psychology; sociology; and art appreciation. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Arts, Social Studies, World History

Introduction to Japan: A Workbook (1992) Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Price: $15.00 (discount for educators) Availability: Youth for Understanding Int'l Exchange Department of Education and Training 3501 Newark Street, NW Washington, DC 20016800/424-3691 This workbook is intended as a self-study guide for high school students attending an exchange program to Japan. However, it can also be used in a secondary-level class as a general overview of Japan. The sections include: an overview of Japanese history, geography, education, religion, women in Japan, U.S.-Japanese relations, trade, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Each section is supplemented with readings and activities. Also included are answer keys and a bibliography. Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts. Social Studies, World History

30 Social Studies

3 1 Recommended Resources on Japan: Grades Japan and the Pacific Rim: Global Studies, 6-12 (1994) Second Edition (1993) Author: Martin, Roberta Author: Collinwood, Dean W. Price: $10.00 ($7, plus $3 s/h) Price: $13.95 Availability: Availability: Assn. for Asian Studies Social Studies School Service 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Ann Arbor, MI 48109313/665-2490 P.O. Box 802 This listing contains teaching materials Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 reviewed by Japan experts, including This is a book of readings about the curriculum units, audiovisual resources, economic, political, and cultural aspects of 20 fiction and nonfiction books, and teacher countries of the Pacific Rim. The book reference materials. begins with an essay on the Pacific Rim, Grade Level: 6-12 which describes current armed conflicts and Subject Areas: Social Studies the causes of political instability. Also discussed are reasons for overpopulation, Individual Rights in International uneven economic development, and the role of Perspective: Lessons on Canada, Mexico, Japan in economic, political, and cultural Japan, and Nigeria (1993) identity development across the Pacific Rim. Author: Miller, Barbara, Lynn Parisi, and Grade Level: 9-College others. Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Price: $23.95 Studies, World History Availability: SSEC Newsweek Newssource: Japan-U.S. P.O. Box 21270 Relations, A Multicultural Perspective Boulder, CO 80308-4270303/492-8154 (1993) The four units in this book examine the Author: Parisi, Lynn perspectives that four unique cultures have Price: Inquire toward individual rights. The lessons can be Availability: used in world geography, culture, or history Newsweek Education Department courses, as well as law classes. 444 Madison Avenue Grade Level: 7-12 New York, NY 10022 800/526-2595 Subject Areas: Global Education, Social This resource is designed to help students Studies understand the historical context and influences on contemporary U.S.-Japan relations, recognize multiple perspectives in international relations, and identify and analyze key economic, political, and social issues in the U.S.-Japan relationship. Grade Level: 6-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies, World History

32 Bartholomew Japan World Travel Map Introduction to Japan: A Workbook (1992) (1992) Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Price: $12.95 Price: $15.00 (discount for educators) Availability: Availability: Social Studies School Service Youth for Understanding Int'l Exchange 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Department of Education and Training P.O. Box 802 3501 Newark Street, NW Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 Washington, DC 20016800/424-3691 This is a physical-political map of Japan This workbook is intended as a self-study measuring approximately 3'x3'.It uses a guide for high school students attending an conic projection and a scale of 1:2,500,000. exchange program to Japan. However, it can The map indicates three different grades of also be used in a secondary-level class as a roads, rail and car ferry routes, airports, and general overview of Japan. The sections international and prefecture boundaries. Also include: an overview of Japanese history, indicated are the elevation of volcanoes and geography, education, religion, women in other peaks, and the names of national parks. Japan, U.S.-Japanese relations, trade, In addition, the map offers inset maps of East language, and cross-cultural encounters. Each Asia, the metropolitan area of Tokyo and section is supplemented with readings and Yokohama, and the islands of Okinawa and activities.Also included are answer keys. Iwo Jima. Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 7-College Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies Social Studies, World History

The Constitution and Individual Rights in Teaching about Law and Cultures: Japan, Japan: Lessons for Middle and High Southeast Asia(Hmong), & Mexico (1992) School Students (1992) Author: Miller, Barbara, Lynn Parisi, and Author: Parisi, Lynn others. Price: $8.00, plus $1.50 s/h. Price: $21.95 Availability: Availability: SSDC SSEC 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 120 P.O. Box 21270 Bloomington, IN 47408 800/266-3815 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 This teaching guide is comprised of four This resource book explores law and culture teaching units that focus on the social and in the United States and three groups political traditions of Japan, the Meiji represented in the U.S. Each unit begins with Constitution (1889-WWII), the 1947 an essay on law in the culture, written from Constitution, and individual rights in the perspective of an expert whose own contemporary Japan. background is linked with the culture under Grade Level: 7-12 study. Each essay is followed by a set of Subject Areas: Social Studies lessons that examine issues related to law, culture, and the conflicts that can arise between contrasting legal traditions when immigrants come to the United States. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Studies

33 A Red Sun Emerges: A Study of Nature in Central Themes for a Unit on Japan (1990) Japanese Culture (1991) Price: $12.00 Author: Trafton, Joyce Availability: Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. East Asian Curriculum Project Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Columbia University ED Number: ED 339 632 420 West 118th Street A collection of materials to help teachers and New York, NY 10027 212/854-1735 students learn how the relationship of the The themes addressed in this guide explain six Japanese people to their natural surroundings major themes that are distinctive and recurrent is integral to an understanding of Japanese in Japanese history and culture: the culture. The sections include: Japan's physical/historical setting, the dynamics of Creation, Religious and Philosophical Nature, change, contemporary nations and cultures, The Way of the Gods, Moral Code, Shinto, economic development in Japan, and Japan in Buddhism, Zen, and Confucianism, The Way the global context. Included is a suggested of Tea, Calligraphy, Flower Arrangement, outline of content for a four-week unit on and Festivals. A 52-item bibliography is Japan in a world cultures social studies included. curriculum. Grade Level: 7-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Studies Social Studies

Alaska, Japan, and the Pacific Rim: A The Compact Society: Japanese Culture in Teacher's Resource Guide for Secondary the 1990s. Journal Entries on the 1990 Educators (1990) Koho Fellowship (1990) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Author: Tinkler, D. William Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. ED Number: ED 331 774 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 This guide was designed to prepare Alaskan ED Number: ED 335 273 students for understanding past, present, and Journal entries of a secondary school teacher potential linkages between their state and the visiting Japan are presented in this document. Pacific region. The resource can be used by Observations about entertainment, food, educators from other parts of the United States customs, prices of goods, and other aspects of who teach about issues concerning these Japanese culture are made. Discussion geographic regions. The guide is divided into questions, an activity for 7th- to 12th-graders, four sections: geography, history, culture, and and copies of several photographs are also economics/international trade. included. Grade Level: 7-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Subject Areas: social Studies Global Education, Social Studies

L. Japan (1990) Japan: Tradition and Change (1990) Author: Kublin, Michael, and Hyman Author: Ellington, Lucien Kublin. Price: $12.95 (paperback); $16.95 Price: textbook $8.49; teaching guide $1.80 (hardcover) Availability: Availability: Houghton Mifflin Company Longman Inc. One Beacon Street 95 Church Street Boston, MA 02108 617/351-5000 White Plains, NY 10601914/993-5000 This text, using history as the organizing Descriptions of contemporary Japanese life are principle, examines political and economic presented to high school students. The eight systems, geography, social organization, chapters cover geography, early history, human and cultural values, fine arts, and modern history, economy, Japanese religion. institutions (educational and religious), the Grade Level: )-12 Japanese people, and the futum of Japan. Subject Areas: Social Studies Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies Japan and It's Hi-Tech Society (1990) Price: Inquire The Modernization of Japan: Continuity Availability: and Change (1990) Asian Outreach Program Price: $39.95 Oberlin Shansi Memorial Assn. Availability: 208 Wilder Hall SPICE Oberlin, OH 44074 216/775-8605 Littlefield Center, Room 14C This folder contains an overview of Japanese Stanford University history and its effect on Japan today, as well Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 as newspaper clippings with commentaries Students will explore the concepts of organized into the following topicc: how life is continuity and change through a case study of changing in Japan; Japanese investments in the Japanese life during the Meiji period (1868- U.S. and Asia; difficulties the U.S. has in 1912) through a variety of teaching entering the Japanese market; Japan and the methodssmall group work, primary source U.S. in the European market; and Japan's aid readings, role play, analysis of Japanese art to other countries. Also included are lists of and photographs, and actual arlvPrtisements other resources and materials, a map of Japan, dating from the late 19th and early 20th and a Japan word hunt game. centuries. Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies, Subject Areas: Social Studies World History

35 Religion in Japan and a Look at Cultural A Look at Japanese Culture hrough the Transmission (1990) Family: A Case Study (1968) Author: Mukai, Gary Author: Parisi, Lynn, ed. Price: $39.95 Price: $10.95 Availability: Availability: SPICE SSEC Littlefield Center, Room 14C P.O. Box 21270 Stanford University Boulder, CO 8030E-4270 303/492-8154 Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Thirty-three case studies of family life in The study of the religions of Shinto and Japan, written by teachers who spent one- and Buddhism in Japan leads to an exploration of two-day homestays in Japan, allow students to cultural transmission. Each unit includes form hypotheses about the traditions, social reproducible handouts. institutions, and values of the Japanese people. Grade Level: 7-12 Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Subject Areas: Social Studies Studies, World History Classroom Teacher's Idea Notebook: Try Japan...In Pictures (1989) Trivia for Openers (1988) Price: $14.95 Author: Marran, James F., and others. Availability: Availability: Social Education 52 International Book Centre, Inc. (September 1988): 390, 392, 394. 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 This article presents three activities suitable Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 for junior/senior high social studies. The This book introduces middle school and high activity on Japan describes a 1-3 day jigsaw school students to the physical geography, lesson on the modernization in Meiji Japan. history, governmental structure, economy, and Grade Level: 7-12 social structures/issues of Japan. The history Subject Areas: Social Studies section presents significant facts about Japan's prehistory through WWII and the postwar reconstruction. The government section briefly describes the Constitution of 1947, and the section on economy describes foreign trade, transportation, and agricultural, fishing and manufacturing products. A section on society includes information on ethnic groups, religion, the educational system, and arts and sports. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Social Studies A Collection of Teaching Units about Japan Women in Japan: From Ancient Times to for Secondary Social Studies Teachers Present (1987) (1988) Author: Bingham, Marjorie, and Susan Author: Barker, B.. and D. Christian, Gross. comps. Price: film (2)/video (2): $40/$45 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. text: $12.95; teacher's guide: $3.50 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Availability: ED Number: ED 296 935 Upper Midwest Women's History Center This is a collection of eight selected secondary Central Community Center level units of study about Japan. The units 6300 Walker Street were written by teachers who attended a study St. Louis Park, MN 55416 612/928-6750 tour to Japan in 1987.Unit topics include: This book with accompanying film/video and economy, geography, three maps of Japan, teacher's guide covers the history of women in U.S. influence on Japan, WWII, music of Japan from ancient times to the present. The Japan, and Japanese medicine. chapters include "Ancient JapanFemale Grade Level: 7-12 Gods and Ruling Empresses," "Religion and Subject Areas: Economics, Geogiaphy, Japanese Women," "Minority Women in Social Studies Japan," and "Women in Contemporary Japan." Japan Meets the West: A Case Study in Grade Level: 9-12 Perceptions (1988) Subject Areas: Social Studies, World Price: $39.95 History Availability: SPICE Through Japanese Eyes, Vol. 1: The Past- Littlefield Center, Room 14C Road From Isolation (1987, Revised) Stanford University Price: $8.95; teacher's guide: $4.95 Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Availability: This unit examines cultural perceptions Social Studies School Service through the case of historical contact between 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Japan and the West. The last lesson looks at P.O. Box 802 mutual images of the 20th century. The areas Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 of study are: world history/culture, American Readings drawn from many sources examine history/culture; language arts; psychology; Japan's emergence as a world power in the sociology; and art appreciation. 19th and 20th centuries. Covers imperialism, Grade Level: 7-12 early trade, WWII, and the occupation of Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Japan by American forces. Free teacher's Arts, Social Studies, World History guide with 20 or more copies. Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies, World History

37 Through Japanese Eyes, Vol. 2: The Flower Card Game Present-Coping with Affluence (1987, Price: Available for loan Revised) Availability: Price: $8.95; teacher's guide: $4.95 Program in Intl Educational Resources Availability: East Asian Studies, Yale University Social Studies School Service P.O. Box 2006F^ 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 P.O. Box 802 This kit contains this traditional card game of Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 Japan, as well as a book of directions for the Selections from modern Japanese literature many levels and varieties of play. portray the problems of adapting to Grade Level: 7-Adult technology, and its impact on traditional Subject Areas: Social Studies values. Free teacher's guide with 20 or more copies. Gion Matsuri in Kyoto: Traditional Festival Grade Level: 9-12 in Modern Japan Subject Areas: Social Studies, World Author: Yen Chu-sun History Price: Available for loan Availability: Castle Towns: An Introduction to Program in Intl Educational Resources Tokugawa Japan (1981) East Asian Studies, Yale University Price: $42.95 P.O. Box 208206 Availability: New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 SPICE This slide unit contains a description of the Littlefield Center, Room 14C procession of floats in the Gion Matsuri, and Stanford University the historical background of each of the Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 mythological figures associated with this This unit introduces students to the castles and festival. towns in Japan during the late feudal period, Grade Level: 7-Adult and is a point of comparison with European Subject Areas: Social Studies feudalism. Included is a castle maze, an activity for 7th-9th graders. Grade Level: 7-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies

38 World History

Imperial Japan: Expansion and War (1995) Tokugawa Japan: The Great Peace and the Price: $37.95 Development of Urban Culture (1995) Availability: Price: $37.95 SSEC Availability: P.O. Box 21270 SSEC Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 P.O. Box 21270 This unit with four lessons, slides, and Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 primary source materials uses art and This unit with slides and primary source literature to explore Japan's expansion into materials takes an humanities approach to the Asia and the Pacific during the first half of the study of Japanese history during the twentieth century. Tokugawa Period, when Japan almost Grade Level: 7-12 completely isolated itself from the outside Subject Areas: Art Education, Language world.Students explore various art forms as Arts, Social Studies, World History reflections of social and economic change, as well as religion, political ideology, and social Meiji Japan: The Dynamics of National class structure. Change (1995) Grade Level: 7-12 Price: $42.95 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Availability: Arts, Social Studies, World History SSEC P.O. Box 21270 Japan and the Pacific Rim: Global Studies, Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 Second Edition (1993) This unit with lessons, slides, and primary Author: Collinwood, Dean W. source materials explores a period of rapid Price: $13.95 social, economic, and political change in Availability: Japan's modern history. Individual lessons Social Studies School Service focus on the formulation of national goals and 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 government policy, the development of P.O. Box 802 Japan's first written constitution, the role of Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 women and various economic classes in the This is a book of readings about the modernization process, and Japan's emerging economic, political, and cultural aspects of 20 role in the world. countries of the Pacific Rim. The book Grade Level: 7-12 begins with an essay on the Pacific Rim, Subject Areas: Social Studies, World which describes current armed conflicts and History the causes of political instability. Also discussed are reasons for overpopulation, uneven economic development, and the role of Japan in economic, political, and cultural identity development across the Pacific Rim. Grade Level: 9-College Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Studies, World History Religion in Japan and a Look at Cultural Women in Japan: From Ancient Times to Transmission (1990) Present (1987) Author: Mukai, Gary Author: Bingham, Marjorie, and Susan Price: $39.95 Gross. Availability: Price: film (2)/video (2): $40/$45 SPICE text: $12.95; teacher's guide: $3.50 Littlefield Center, Room 14C Availability: Stanford University Upper Midwest Women's History Center Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Central Community Center The study of the religions of Shinto and 6300 Walker Street Buddhism in Japan leads to an exploration of St. Louis Park, MN 55416 612/928-6750 cultural transmission.Eaci' unit includes This book with accompanying film/video and reproducible handouts. teacher's guide covers the history of women in Grade Level: 7-12 Japan from ancient times to the present. The Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social chapters include "Ancient JapanFemale Studies, World History Gods and Ruling Empresses," "Religion and Japanese Women," "Minority Women in Japan Meets the West: A Case Study in Japan," and "Women in Contemporary Perceptions (1988) Japan." Price: $39.95 Grade Level: 9-12 Availability: Subject Areas: Social Studies, World SPICE History Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Newsweek Newssource: Japan-U.S. Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Relations, A Multicultural Perspective This unit examines cultural perceptions (1993) through the case of historical contact between AuthoParisi, Lynn Japan and the West. The last lesson looks at Price: Inquire mutual images of the 20th century. The areas Availability: of study are: world history/culture, American Newsweek Education Department history/culture; language arts; psychology; 444 Madison Avenue sociology; and art appreciation. New York, NY 10022 800/526-2595 Grade Level: 7-12 This resource is designed to help students Subject Areas: Art Education, Language understand the historical context and Arts, Social Studies, World History influences on contemporary U.S.-Japan relations, recognize multiple perspectives in international relations, and identify and analyze key economic, political, and social issues in the U.S.-Japan relationship. Grade Level: 6-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies, World History

40 Introduction to Japan: A Workbook (1992) Through Japanese Eyes, Vol. 1: The Past- Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Road From Isolation (1987, Revised) Price: $15.00 (discount for educators) Price: $8.95; teacher's guide: $4.95 Availability: Availability: Youth for Understanding Int'l Exchange Social Studies School Service Department of Education and Training 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 3501 Newark Street, NW P.O. Box 802 Washington, DC 20016800/424-3691 Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 This workbook is intended as a self-study Readings drawn from many sources examine guide for high school students attending an Japan's emergence as a world power in the exchange program to Japan. However, it can 19th and 20th centuries. Covers imperialism, also be used in a secondary-level class as a early trade, WWII, and the occupation of general overview of Japan. The sections Japan by American forces. Free teacher's include: an overview of Japanese history, guide with 20 or more copies. geography, education, religion, women in Grade Level: 9-12 Japan, U.S.-Japanese relations, trade, Subject Areas: Social Studies, World language, and cross-cultural encounters. Each History section is supplemented with readings and activities.Also included are answer keys and Through Japanese Eyes, Vol. 2: The a bibliography. Present-Coping with Affluence (1987, Grade Level: 9-12 Revised) Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Price: $8.95; teacher's guide: $4.95 Social Studies, World History Availability: Social Studies School Service Japan and It's Hi-Tech Society (1990) 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Price: Inquire P.O. Box 802 Availability: Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 Asian Outreach Program Selections from modern Japanese literature Oberlin Shansi Memorial Assn. portray the problems of adapting to 208 Wilder Hall technology, and its impact on traditional Oberlin, OH 44074 216/775-8605 values. Free teacher's guide with 20 or more This folder contains an overview of Japanese copies. history and its effect on Japan today, as well Grade Level: 9-12 as newspaper clippings with commentaries Subject Areas: Social Studies, World organized into the following topics: how life is History changing in Japan; Japanese investments in the U.S. and Asia; difficulties the U.S. has in entering the Japanese market; Japan and the U.S. in the European market; and Japan's aid to other countries. Also included are lists of other resources and materials, a map of Japan, and a Japan word hunt game. Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Social Studies, World History

41 Part 3: K-12 School Materials

4 Art Education

Ancient and Living Cultures Stencils: Denver Art Museum Poster Plus Program: Ancient Japan (1993) Woman Painting a Dragon that Comes Price: $9.95 (1-4 copies); $8.95 (5 or To Life (1993) more copies) Author: Stevens, Amy, and Nancy Tieken. Availability: Price: $20 each set Social Studies School Service Availability: 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 Denver Art Museum P.O. Box 802 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 Denver, CO 80204 303/640-2295 This activity book is part of a series of books This 16" x 24" laminated poster illustrates a that each contain four pages of stencils in woodblock print depicting a woman painting a addition to related myths, stories, maps, dragon that comes to life.Observers can historical information, cultural details, and learn about the traditional Japanese calendar, step-by-step instructions for craft projects. as well as the 31-syllable "tanka" poem that is Projects include making a samurai helmet. also found on the print.Historical Japanese Among the stories is the Japanese tale of "The art traditions are illustrated in the work. The Bamboo Princess." poster program includes a teacher's guide, Grade Level: 2-8 descriptions of classtoom activities that Subject Areas: Art Education enhance the use of the poster, references for teachers, graded suggestions for further Denver Art Museum Poster Plus Program: reading, and recommended videos. Lacquer Writing Box (1993) Grade Level: 5-8 Author: Stevens, Amy, and Nancy Tieken. Subject Areas: Art Education Price: $20 each set Availability: Japanese Crafts and Customs: A Seasonal Denver Art Museum Approach (1993) 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Author: Ekiguchi, Kunio, and Ruth Denver, CO 80204 303/640-2295 McCreery. This 16"x24" laminated poster illustrates a Price: $13.00 lacquered wooden box depicting 2 samurai Availability: fording the Uji River during the Gempei War Kodansha Int'l USA Ltd. of the 12th century. On the back of the c/o The Putnam-Berkeley Group poster, teachers and students find explanations 390 Murray Hill Parkway of the art techniques and medium used, East Rutherford, NJ 07073 800/638-3030 historical Japanese art traditions that are This volume consists of essays on customs and illustrated in the work, and a short biography festivals that mark seasonal changes in Japan. of the artist(s). The poster program includes a The essays are accompanied by crafts projects teacher's guide, descriptions of classroom of traditional items made to welcome each activities that enhance the use of the poster, season. references for teachers, graded suggestions for Grade Level: K-Adult further reading, and recommended videos. Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Grade Level: 5-8 Studies Subject Areas: Art Education

45 Origami Classroom (1993) Modern Japan: An Idea Book for K-12 Author: Nakano, Dokuotei Teachers (1992) Price: $12.95 Author: Bernson, Mary Hammond Availability: Price: $6.00, plus $2.00 s/h. International Book Centre, Inc. Availability: 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 SSDC Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 120 This kit includes a 24-page instruction booklet Bloomington, IN 47408800/266-3815 and 54 5"x5" sheets of rainbow-colored paper This idea book of supplementary lessons on for folding 21 origami shapes. The booklet Japan focuses primarily on writing skills, includes step-by-step directions and color visual arts, games, music and other arts, and photos to guide the reader. The shapes social studies.Social studies lessons present include flowers, a variety of animals, and information on geography, trade, the Japanese windmills. constitution and law, and education. Grade Grade Level: 5-Adult level, objective(s), materials needed, time Subject Areas: Art Education requirements, and procedures are outlined for each lesson. Japan: Traditions and Trends: An Grade Level: K-12 Independent Learning Unit in the Gifted Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Learning Series (1992) Arts, Social Studies Author: Allen, Carole, and Ted Warren. Price: $8.95 Art: The Telling of History through Availability: Technology (1990) International Book Centre, Inc. Availability: Writing Notebook 7 (January- 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 February 1990): 26-29. Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Describes several writing projects that use This is a set of individual, photocopy-ready computers to expose students to art, cultural activities for middle school students to use as history, and present day technology. Suggests they learn about Japanese culture. Each activities for Prehistoric art, Egyptian art, activity begins with a short reading that African art, Japanese art, and Native provides historical, geographic, or cultural American art. information. Each page or set of pages Grade Level: K-12 proposes from one to three activities, such as Subject Areas: Art Education decorating chopsticks, designing educational games, or making a miniature "yakko" kite. Hokusai & Teraoka: Merging East and Grade Level: 4-8 West (1989) Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Author: Koetsch, Peg Studies Availability: School Arts 89 (1989): 23-26. Presents background material about the nineteenth-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai and the contemporary Hawaiian artist Masami Teraoka. Compares the artists' ability to visualize human concerns that transcend time and place. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education

LI 4 6 Images of Japan Slide Set (1989) Teaching Japan Through the Arts (1987) Images of Japan (book) Author: Bernson, Mary, Janet Graves, Author: Wakan, Naomi, and Elias Wakan. Elaine Magnusson, and Sonnet Takahisa. Price: $49.95 Price: $8.00 per copy (checks made to Availability: GEMS) Pacific-Rim Publishers Availability: #302-130 East 15th Avenue East Asia Resource Center Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 Jackson School of International Studies 604/872-7373 DR-05; 302 C Thomson Hall This set of 25 35mm slides depicts Japanese Univ. of Washington folk toys and other aspects of Japanese Seattle, WA 98195 206/543-1921 culture.Included with the slides are caption A series of four books that introduce sheets and the book Images of Japan, which elementary and middle school students to covers Japan's heritage, from rock gardens to Japan through art activities. The titles are: samurai, good luck toys to festivals. Each Japan Through Art Activities, Natsu Matsuri chapter covers a specific folk image. Included (about summer festivals), Traditional Arts and after each chapter are suggested activities for Culture, and School Days in Japan. writing, discussion, drama, art, and map Grade Level: K-8 work. The book may be purchased separately Subject Areas: Art Education, Social for $15.95. Studies Grade Level: K-7 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Origami Polyhedra (1985) Arts, Social Studies Author: Costello, John Availability: Mathematics in School 14 Spring Blossoms, Autumn Moon: Japanese (January 1985): 4-8. Art for the Classroom (1989) Shows how to construct a cube using origami Author: Louden, Sarah M. (paper folding) techniques. Also shows how, Price: $33.00 (out of state); $35.46 (WA) by identifying analogous features, to construct Availability: an octahedron. Seattle Art Museum, Education Dept. Grade Level: K-12 P.O. Box 22000 Subject Areas: Art Education Seattle, WA 98122-9700206/654-3124 This multimedia unit uses the cycle of the Ikebana Kit seasons as the organizing theme. The slides Price: Available for loan are all of objects in the permanent collection Availability: of Japanese art from the Seattle Art Museum Program in Int'l Educational Resources that represent a variety of media: calligraphy, East Asian Studies, Yale University painting, textiles, and ceramics. Also P.O. Box 208206 included is an audiotape of Japanese stories New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 and music. This kit contains dishes, flower holders, Grade Level: K-12 teacher's guide, and a collection of color Subject Areas: Art Education, Language pictures illustrating flower arrangements. Arts, Social Studies Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education Origami Kit Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This kit contains the paper, instructions, and display photographs for a unit on Japanese paper-folding. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Studies

Shodo Kit Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This kit contains 40 brushes, sample inkstones, inksticks, paper, activity sheets, a Japanese writing chart, teacher's material and background readings on the Japanese language. No prior experience with the Japanese language is necessary. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Japanese Language

48 Economics

Japan in the Classroom: Elementary and Secondary Activities (1993, Revised) Author: Johnson, Jacqueline, Lynn Parisi, and Patricia Weiss. Price: $21.95 Availability: SSEC P.O. Box 21270 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 The 26 activities in this book focus on teaching about Japan within the context of larger social studies units. The subjects include history and government, geography, energy use, food and eating habits, language and literature, population density, and economic development. A variety of teaching strategies are used, including games, artifacts, simulations, role playing, and case studies. Grade Level: K-12 ibject Areas: Economics, Geography, Language Arts, Social Studies

49 Geography

Japan in the Classroom: Elementary and Warlords of Japan (1991) Secondary Activities (1993, Revised) Price: Available for loan Author: Johnson, Jacqueline, Lynn Parisi, Availability: and Patricia Weiss. Program in Int'l Educational Resources Price: $21.95 East Asian Studies, Yale University Availability: P.O. Box 208206 SSEC New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 P.O. Box 21270 This artifact kit is a ten-day simulation that Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 takes students through history, art, language, The 26 activities in this book focus on journal keeping, math, and geography teaching about Japan within the context of activities to help them to understand Japanese larger social studies units. The subjects history and traditional social order. Requires include history and government, geography, some preparation on the part of the teacher: energy use, food and eating habits, language duplication of student readings and activity and literature, population density, and sheets, etc. economic development. A variety of teaching Grade Level: 4-8 strategies are used, including games, artifacts, Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, simulations, role playing, and case studies. Social Studies Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Classroom Activities in Japanese Culture Language Arts, Social Studies and Society (1990) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Japanese Geography/Neighborhood (1991) Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Price: $5.00, plus $2.00 s/h. ED Number: ED 324 262 Availability: Background material on the history, The Asia Society geography, culture, government, educational Education Department system, and everyday life of the Japanese 725 Park Avenue people is presented in this curriculum guide, New York, NY 10021 212/288-6400 which is intended as a source book for This poster, which accompanies a "Video teachers and administrators. Lesson plans at Letter from Japan" package, can also be the elementary and secondary levels are purchased separately. Each package contains presented, as well as numerous graphs, a 25 minute video, a teacher's manual, and a figures, and maps. poster. One side of the poster shows the Grade Level: K-12 Japanese islands, and gives an overview of Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies Japanese geography. The other side shows a map of a neighborhood of Tokyo, with pictures and explanations of places on the map. The places pictured are typical of those found in many Japanese cities. Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

50 Japan: Geography, Cuisine, and Culture (1985) Author: Kay, Karen Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 ED Number: ED 306 167 These materials are designed as four modules: geography, foods, the kitchen, and culture and are to be used singly or jointly as a unit on Japanese food and culture. A bibliography, and lists of the contents of the available accompanying artifact kits of utensils and foods are given. Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

Japanese Cooking and Serving Utensils Author: Kay, Karen, and Caryn White. Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This artifact kit contains all of the cooking utensils necessary to complete the unit "Japan: Geography, Cuisine, and Culture." Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

51 Global Education

Eye Openers: Handbook of International Teaching Activities (1989) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 ED Number: ED 310 950 This collection of 32 global activities and teaching strategies helps foster international education in the classroom. The activity focusing on Japan, "A Yen for Problem Solving," demonstrates exchange rates and cultural values to grades 6-8 through the use of a Japanese McDonald's menu, real estate listings, and bicycle ads. Grade Level: 6-8 Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Studies

52. Japanese Language

Omiyage (1990) Shodo Kit Price: $44.95, plus $2.50 s/h. Price: Available for loan Availability: Availability: World Eagle Inc. Program in Int'l Educational Resources 111 King Street East Asian Studies, Yale University Littleton, MA 01460 800/854-8273 P.O. Box 208206 Although not a language learning text to speak New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 Japanese, this unit uses language as a means This kit contains 40 brushes, sample to learn about Japanese culture and tradition. inkstones, inksticks, paper, activity sheets, a The chapters include: 1)Breaking the Code: Japanese writing chart, teacher's material and Japanese Reading and Writing; 2) It's a background readings on the Japanese Matter of Meaning: Japanese Manners; 3) language. No prior experience with the Kotowaza (Proverbs and Sayings); 4) Food for Japanese language is necessary. Thought: The Nature of Food and Its Grade Level: K-12 Preparation; and 5)0asobi (Games and Songs). Subject Areas: Art Education, Japanese Included is an audiotape that corresponds to a Language number of exercises.Also available is a 43- page supplementary workbook. Grade Level: 6-12 Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Language Arts, Social Studies

Japanese Children's Songs Price: $25.95 Availability: Pacific-Rim Publishers #302-130 East 15th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 604/872-7373 This tape features songs sung by Japanese children, in Japanese on one side and English on the other. The book has the treble clef music line for all the songs, along with English and Japanese lyrics, as well as some background on each song. Some are traditional game songs.Vocabulary includes parts of the body, colors, and fruits. Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Social Studies

53 Language Arts

Japan in the Classroom: Elementary and Modern Japan: An Idea Book for K-12 Secondary Activities (1993, Revised) Teachers (1992) Author: Johnson, Jacqueline, Lynn Parisi, Author; Bernson, Mary Hammond and Patricia Weiss. Price: $6.00, plus $2.00 s/h. Price: $21.95 Availability: SSDC SSEC 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 120 P.O. Box 21270 Bloomington, IN 47408800/266-3815 Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 This idea book of supplementary lessons on The 26 activities in this book focus on Japan focuses primarily on writing skills, teaching about Japan within the context of visual arts, games, music and other arts, and larger social studies units. The subjects social studies.Social studies lessons present include history and government, geography, information on geography, trade, the Japanese energy use, food and eating habits, language constitution and law, and education. Grade and literature, population density, and level, objective(s), materials needee, time economic development. A variety of teaching requirements, and procedures are outlined for strategies are used, including games, artifacts, each lesson. simulations, role playing, and case studies. Grade Level: K-12 Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Arts, Social Studies Language Arts, Social Studies Warlords of Japan (1991) World of Haiku (1993) Price: Available for loan Author: Wakan, Naomi Availability: Price: $14.95 book; $39.95 for kit Program in Int'l Educational Resources Availability: East Asian Studies, Yale University Pacific-Rim Publishers P.O. Box 208206 #302-130 East 15th Avenue New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 This artifact kit is a ten-day simulation that 604/872-7373 takes students through history, art, language, This kit contains the bookHaiku: One-Breath journal keeping, math, and geography Poetryfor the student and instructional cards activities to help them to understand Japanese for a haiku workshop for the teacher, along history and traditional social order. Requires with 20 slides and matching haiku. Exercises some preparation on the part of the teacher: encourage students to write haiku. duplication of student readings and activity Grade Level: 4-10 sheets, etc. Subject Areas: Language Arts Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, Social Studies

54 I Omiyage (1990) Images of Japan Slide Set (1989) Price: $44.95, plus $2.50 s/h. Images of Japan (book) Availability: Author: Wakan, Naomi, and Elias Wakan. World Eagle Inc. Price: $49.95 111 King Street Availability: Littleton, MA 01460 800/854-8273 Pacific-Rim Publishers Although not a language learning text to speak #302-130 East 15th Avenue Japanese, this unit uses language as a means Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 to learn about Japanese culture and tradition. 604/872-7373 The chapters include: 1)Breaking the Code: This set of 25 35mm slides depicts Japanese Japanese Reading and Writing; 2) It's a folk toys and other aspects of Japanese Matter of Meaning: Japanese Manners; 3) culture. Included with the slides are caption Kotowaza (Proverbs and Sayings); 4) Food for sheets and the book Images of Japan, which Thought: The Nature of Food and Its covers Japan's heritage, from rock gardens to Preparation; and 5)0asobi (Games and Songs). samurai, good luck toys to festivals. Each Included is an audiotape that corresponds to a chapter covers a specific folk image. Included number of exercises.Also available is a 43- after each chapter are suggested activities for page supplementary workbook. writing, discussion, drama, art and map work. Grade Level: 6-12 The book may be purchased separately for Subject Areas: Japanese Language, $15.95. Language Arts, Social Studies Grade Level: K-7 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Teenage Tokyo (1990) Arts, Social Studies Author: Duffy, Jo, and Takashi Oguro, illustrator. Sprin7 Blossoms, Autumn Moon: Japanese Price: $4.95, plus s/h. Art for the Classroom (1989) Availability: Author: Louden, Sarah M. The Children's Museum, Japan Program Price: $33.00 (out of state); $35.46 (WA) 300 Congress Street Availability: Boston, MA 00210617/426-6500, #236 Seattle Art Museum, Education Dept. This Japanese-style comic book is designed to P.O. Box 22000 help youngsters better understand how Seattle, WA 98122-9700206/654-3124 growing up in contemporary Japan is both This multimedia unit uses the cycle of the similar to and different from life in the United seasons as the organizing theme. The slides States. are all of objects in the permanent collection Grade Level: 5-8 of Japanese art from the Seattle Art Museum Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social that represent a variety of media: calligraphy, Studies painting, textiles, and ceramics. Also included is an audiotape of Japanese stories and music. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Arts, Social Studies

55 The Haiku Moment: Seeing the World in A Grain of Sand Availability: SPICE Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Writing activities accompanied by slides and a audiotape of haiku and Japanese music introduce students to the world of Japanese aesthetics and poetry. Grade Level: K-615 pp., 12 slides, audiotape $24.95 (1988) Grade Level: 7-12 - 33 pp., 22 slides, audiotape $29.95 (1980) Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies

56 Social Studies

Japan in the Classroom: Elementary and Resources for Teaching about Japan (1993) Secondary Activities (1993, Revised) Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Author: Johnson, Jacqueline, Lynn Parisi, Price: $3, plus $1.50 s/h. and Patricia Weiss. Availability: Price: $21.95 SSDC Availability: 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 120 SSEC Bloomington, IN 47408800/266-3815 P.O. Box 21270 This book lists resources for materials and Boulder, CO 80308-4270 303/492-8154 ideas for teaching about Japan.The resource The 26 activities in this book focus on listings are not intended to be encyclopedic teaching about Japan within the context of and are not intended to be a comprehensive larger social studies units. The subjects listing of every useful curriculum item. An include history and government, geography, attempt has been mad?. to highlight those energy use, food and eating habits, language organizations that work with K-12 teachers, and literature, population density, and understand their needs, respect their economic development. A variety of teaching challenges, and design meaningful materials. strategies are used, including games, artifacts, Grade Level: K-12 simulations, role playing, and case studies. Subject Areas: Social Studies Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Economics, Geography, Japan: Traditions and Trends: An Language Arts, Social Studies Independent Learning Unit in the Gifted Learning Series (1992) Japanese Crafts and Customs: A Seasonal Author: Allen, Carole, and Ted Warren. Approach (1993) Price: $8.95 Author: Ekiguchi, Kunio, and Ruth Availability: McCreery. International Book Centre, Inc. Price: $13.00 2007 Laurel Drive, P.O. Box 295 Availability: Troy, Michigan 48099 313/879-8436 Kodansha Int'l USA Ltd. This is a set of individual, photocopy-ready c/o The Putnam-Berkeley Group activities for middle school students to use as 390 Murray Hill Parkway they learn about Japanese culture. Each East Rutherford, NJ 07073 800/638-3030 activity begins with a short reading that This volume consists of essays on customs and provides historical, geographic, or cultural festivals that mark seasonal changes in Japan. information. Each page or set of pages The essays are accompanied by crafts projects proposes from one to three activities, such as of traditional items made to welcome each decorating chopsticks, designing educational season. games, or making a miniature "yakko" kite. Grade Level: K-Adult Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Studies Studies

57 Modern Japan: An Idea Book for K-12 Japanese Traditional Home/Modern Home Teachers (1992) (1991) Author: Bernson, Mary Hammond Price: $5.00, plus $2.00 s/h. Price: $6.00, plus $2.00 s/h. Availability: Availability: The Asia Society SSDC Education Department 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 120 725 Park Avenue Bloomington, IN 47408800/266-3815 New York, NY 10021212/288-6400 This idea book of supplementary lessons on This poster, which accompanies a "Video Japan focuses primarily on writing skills, Letter from Japan" package (containing a 25- visual arts, games, music and other arts, and minute video, a teacher's manual, and a social studies.Social studies lessons present poster), can also be purchased separately. information on geography, trade, the Japanese Illustrated on this poster are floor plans for constitution and law, and education. Grade both a traditional and a modern Japanese level, objective(s), materials needed, time house. Overviews of traditional and modern requirements, and procedures are outlined for housing are also given, as well as pictures and each lesson. explanations of special features, including the Grade Level: K-12 tokonoma, tatami, shoji, and fusuma. Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Grade Level: K-8 Arts, Social Studies Subject Areas: Social Studies

Japanese Geography/Neighborhood (1991) Teaching Resources for Understanding the Price: $5.00, plus $2.00 s/h. U.S.-Japanese Relationship (1991) Availability: Author: Wojtan, Linda S. The Asia Society Availability: Social Education 55 Education Department (November-December 1991): 455-56. 725 Park Avenue This article provides a sampling of available New York, NY 10021 212/288-6400 resources about U.S. interactions with Japan This poster, which accompanies a "Video over the past 50 years.It lists specific Letter from Japan" package, can also be curriculum materials such as lesson plans, purchased separately. Each package contains activity books and units, films, slides, and a 25-minute video, a teacher's manual, and a videos.It also includes materials on Japanese poster. One side of the poster shows the Americans, international trade, Japanese Japanese islands, and gives an overview of culture, and World War II. Japanese geography. The other side shows a Grade Level: K-12 map of a neighborhood of Tokyo, with Subject Areas: Social Studies, World pictures and explanations of places on the History map. The places pictured are typical of those found in many Japanese cities. Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

58 Touch of Japan (1991) World of the Samurai (1991) Author: Haley-Oliphant, Ann, and Naomi Author: Wakan, Naomi, and Elias Wakan. Wakan. Price: $39.95 Price: $34.95 Availability: Availability: Pacific-Rim Publishers Pacific-Rim Publishers #302-130 East 15th Avenue #302-130 East 15th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 604/872-7373 604/872-7373 This kit includes slides and extensive caption This workbook, from the Missouri Botanical notes on the slides, as well as the bookSecrets Gardens, is for elementary levels. The slides of the Samurai.The slides complement the and captions, which include material on book by covering samurai armor, castles, bonsai, ikebana, bamboo, rice, and Japanese weapons, and the juxtaposition of two aspects gardens, can be used at all levels. of the samurai: ruthlessness along with an Grade Level: K-7 appreciation of beauty and the arts. A Subject Areas: Social Studies classroom set with one kit and 25 books is also available for $249.00. Warlords of Japan (1991) Grade Level: 4-12 Price: Available for loan Subject Areas: Social Studies Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources Classroom Activities in Japanese Culture East Asian Studies, Yale University and Society (1990) P.O. Box 208206 Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 This artifact kit is a ten-day simulation that ED Number: ED 324 262 takes students through history, art, language, Background material on the history, journal keeping, math, and geography geography, culture, government, educational activities to help them to understand Japanese system, and everyday life of the Japanese history and traditional social order. Requires people is presented in this curriculum guide, some preparation on the part of the teacher, which is intended as a source book for duplication of student readings, activity sheets, teachers and administrators. Lesson plans at etc. the elementary and secondary levels are Grade Level: 4-8 presented, as well as numerous graphs, Subject Areas: Geography, Language Arts, figures, and maps. Social Studies Grade Level: K-12 Subject Amas: Geography, Social Studies Matsuri Festival: Japanese American Teenage Tokyo (1990) Celebrations and Activities (1990) Author: Duffy, Jo, and Takashi Oguro, Author: Araki, K. Nancy, and Jane M. illustrator. Horii. Price: $4.95, plus s/h. Price: $9.95 Availability: Availability: The Children's Museum, Japan Program Shen's Books and Supplies 300 Congress Street 821 S. First Avenue Boston, MA 00210 617/426-6500, #236 Arcadia, CA 91006800/456-6660 This Japanese-style comic book is designed to This book describes and gives activities for help youngsters better understand how five "matsuri" (festivals), from their historical growing up in contemporary Japan is both Japanese roots to the adapted Japanese- similar to and different from life in the United American expressions. The festivals covered States. are: New Year's, Doll Festival (or Girl's Grade Level: 5-8 Day), Children's Day, Tanibata (Star Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Festival), and Obon, a summer festival. Studies Grade Level: 4-8 Subject Areas: Social Studies Eye Openers: Handbook of International Teaching Activities (1989) Omiyage (1990) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Price: $44.95, plus $2.50 s/h. Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Availability: ED Number: ED 310 950 World Eagle Inc. This collection of 32 global activities and 111 King Street teaching strategies helps foster international Littleton, MA 01460 800/854-8273 education in the classroom. The activity Although not a language learning text to speak focusing on Japan, "A Yen for Problem Japanese, this unit uses language as a means Solving," demonstrates exchange rates and to learn about Japanese culture and tradition. cultural values to grades 6-8 through the use The chapters include: 1)Breaking the Code: of a Japanese McDonald's menu, real estate Japanese Reading and Writing; 2) It's a listings, and bicycle ads. Matter of Meaning: Japanese Manners; 3) Grade Level: 6-8 Kotowaza (Proverbs and Sayings); 4) Food for Subject Areas: Global Education, Social Thought: The Nature of Food and Its Studies Preparation; and 5)Oasobi (Games and Songs). Included is an audiotape that corresponds to a number of exercises. Also available is a 43- page supplementary workbook. Grade Level: 6-12 Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Language Arts, Social Studies

60 "Hands On" Japan (1989) International Food Library: Food in Japan Author: Borries, Richard (1989) Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Author: Takeshita, Jiro Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Price: $12.95 ED Number: ED 327 426 Availability: This guide provides a key to the contents of Social Studies School Service artifact kits designed in Evansville, Indiana. 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Room 1111 The kits contain teaching materials, learning P.O. Box 802 activities, and information about food, school Culver City, CA 90232 800/421-4246 materials, language items, art, clothing, toys, This book introduces students to the roles of maps, cultural items, festivals, and religion. agriculture and fishing in Japan's economy Grade Level: K-12 and culture. Readers leani what is grown and Subject Areas: Social Studies how technology has made Japan nearly self- sufficient in products such as rice, fish, and Images of Japan Slide Set (1989) certain fruits.Students also learn about the Images of Japan (book) Japanese diet, regional dishes, and their use in Author: Wakan, Naomi, and Elias Wakan. Shinto and Buddhist festivals, such as the Price: $49.95 Gion Festival in Kyoto. Finally, students are Availability: offered recipes for four different meals. Pacific-Rim Publishers Grade Level: 5-8 #302-130 East 15th Avenue Subject Areas: Social Studies Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4L3 604/872-7373 Our Common Home: Earth. Japan (A This set of 25 35mm slides depicts Japanese Culture Study Unit) (1989) folk toys and other aspects of Japanese Author: Peters, Richard culture.Included with the sLides are caption Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. sheets and the book Images of Japan, which Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 covers Japan's heritage, from rock gardens to ED Number: ED 312 173 samurai, good luck toys to festivals. Each Designed to provide students and teachers chapter covers a specific folk image. Included with opportunities to investigate the social, after each chapter are suggested activities for cultural, and historical traits of Japan, this writing, discussion, drama, art and map work. study unit can be adapted to the needs of any The book may be purchased separately for group within the social studies curriculum. $15.95. An overview and outline of Japan covers the Grade Level: K-7 areas of geography, population, history, Subject Areas: Art Education, Language unique features (e.g., the people, food, Arts, Social Studies specialties, sports, and the arts). Grade Level: 4-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies

61 Spring Blossoms, Autumn Moon: Japanese Teaching Japan Through the Arts (1987) Art for the Classroom (1989) Author: Bernson, Mary, Janet Graves, Author: Louden, Sarah M. Elaine Magnusson, and Sonnet Takahisa. Price: $33.00 (out of state); $35.46 (WA) Price: $8.00 per copy (checks made to Availability: GEMS) Seattle Art Museum, Education Dept. Availability: P.O. Box 22000 East Asia Resource Center Seattle, WA 98122-9700206/654-3124 Jackson School of International Studies This multimedia unit uses the cycle of the DR-05; 302 C Thomson Hall seasons as the organizing theme. The slides Univ. of Washington are all of objects in the permanent collection Seattle, WA 98195 206/543-1921 of Japanese art from the Seattle Art Museum A series of four books that introduce that represent a variety of media: calligraphy, elementary and middle school students to painting, textiles, and ceramics. Also Japan through art activities. The titles are: included is an audiotape of Japanese stories Japan Through Art Activities, Natsu Matsuri and music. (about summer festivals), Traditional Arts and Grade Level: K-12 Culture, and School Days in Japan. Subject Areas: Art Education, Language Grade Level: K-8 Arts, Social Studies Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Studies The Haiku Moment: Seeing the World in A Grain of Sand Japan: Geography, Cuisine, and Culture Availability: (1985) SPICE Author: Kay, Karen Littlefield Center, Room 14C Price: Call EDRS for pricing information. Stanford University Availability: EDRS, 800/443-3742 Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 ED Number: ED 306 167 Writing activities accompanied by slides and a These materials are designed as four modules: audiotape of haiku and Japanese music geography, foods, the kitchen, and culture and introduce students to the world of Japanese are to be used singly or jointly as a unit on aesthetics and poetry. Japanese food and culture. A bibliography, Grade Level: K-6 - 15 pp., 12 slides, and lists of the contents of the available audiotape $24.95 (1988) accompanying artifact kits of utensils and Grade Level: 7-12 - 33 pp., 22 slides, foods are given. audiotape $29.95 (1980) Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Language Arts, Social Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies Studies Cooking the Japanese Way (1983) Girl's Day Doll Set Author: Weston, Reiko Price: Available for loan Availability: Availability: Lerner Publications Company Program in Intl Educational Resources 241 First Avenue North East Asian Studies, Yale University Minneapolis, MN 55401800/328-4929 P.O. Box 208206 This book introduces intermediate students to New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 typical seasonal dishes, as well as the staples This kit contains the complete set of dolls, of the Japanese diet: rice, wheat noodles,and from the Emperor and Empress through the soybean products. The author differentiates courtiers, included in the traditional Girl's between different styles of Japanese foods, Day doll display. suggests how to combine and arrangethese Grade Level: K-12 dishes in an aesthetically pleasing manner, Subject Areas: Social Studies illustrates four important cooking utensils, and gives step-by-step instructions for using Japanese Children's Kit chopsticks. Price: Available for loan Grade Level: 5-8 Availability: Subject Areas: Social Studies Program in Intl Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University Cha-No-Yu (Tea Ceremony) Kit P.O. Box 208206 Price: Available for loan New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 Availability: This artifact kit contains many interesting Program in Int'l Educational Resources objects such as children's kimonos, geta, a East Asian Studies, Yale University carp banner, a daruma goodluck doll, etc. P.O. Box 208206 Each item is numbered and an accompanying New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 list explains the use. A curriculum guide This kit contains a collection of the itemsused provides suggestions for classroom activities. in performing a Japanese tea ceremony.It Grade Level: K-8 may be used to supplementthe video, "The Subject Areas: Social Studies Tea Ceremony," which is also available through P.I.E.R. Japanese Children's Songs Grade Level: K-12 Price: $25.95 Subject Areas: Social Studies Availability: Pacific-Rim Publishers #302-130 East 15th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 4L3604/872-7373 This tape features songs sung by Japanese children, in Japanese on one side and English on the other. The bookhas the treble clef music line for all the songs, along with English and Japanese lyrics, as well as some background on each song. Some are traditional game songs.Vocabulary includes parts of the body, colors, andfruits. Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Social Studies

63 Japanese Cooking and Serving Utensils Author: Kay, Karen, and Caryn White. Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This artifact kit contains all of the cooking utensils necessary to complete the unit "Japan: Geography, Cuisine, and Culture." Grade Level: K-8 Subject Areas: Geography, Social Studies

Origaini Kit Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This kit contains the paper, instructions, and display photographs for a unit on Japanese paper-folding. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Art Education, Social Studies

Soroban: Japanese Abacus Kit Price: Available for loan Availability: Program in Int'l Educational Resources East Asian Studies, Yale University P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-3429 This kit contains five small abacuses,a larger teacher's abacus, and packets of problems to be solved, as well as a teacher's guide. A curriculum unit on soroban is available in the East Asian Resource Center at Yale. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies

64 World History

U.S.-Japan Relatioas: Part I: Episodes in the History of U.S.-Japan Relations: Case Studies of Conflict, Conflict Management, and Resolution (1993) Price: $49.95 Availability: SPICE Littlefield Center, Room 14C Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5013800/578-1114 Designed for use in U.S. and world history classes, this unit explores six episodes in U.S.-Japan relations, and contains extensive primary source documents, including immigration documents, diary excerpts, letters, telegrams, comic books, and political cartoons. Grade Level: 8-Aduit Subject Areas: World History

Teaching Resources for Understanding the U.S.-Japanese Relationship (1991) Author: Wojtan, Linda S. Availability: Social Education 55 (November-December 1991): 455-56. This article provides a sampling of available resources about U.S. interactions with Japan over the past 50 years.It lists specific curriculum materials such as lesson plans, activity books and units, films, slides, and videos.It also includes materials on Japanese Americans, international trade, Japanese culture, and World War II. Grade Level: K-12 Subject Areas: Social Studies, World History

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