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 Early Elementary Activity
Japanese Hinamatursi Day & Tea Ceremony

 Grades K-2 Materials:
 * Dolls
 * Play tea set (preferably a Japanese style one)
 * newspaper print paper (end of the paper rolls)
 * Markers, crayons
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Felt strips for belts
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How My Parents Learned To Eat (Japanese - American) by Ina R. Friedman (or some other multicultural Japanese book)
 * 1) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Before this lesson, tell students that they need to bring a doll for Hinamatsuri Day. This is the day of the Dolls in Japan.
 * 2) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explain what Hinamatsuri Day was to the children.
 * 3) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have the children take turns telling about their doll and why it was special to them (some might bring stuffed animals).
 * 4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make paper kimonos out of newspaper print paper (end of the paper rolls). (A lot of newspapers give these away for free or for a very small amount and they have lots of paper left on them.)
 * 5) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each child decorates their own paper kimono and then use a felt strip as a belt to fasten it.
 * 6) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next have a Japanese style tea party, with everyone seated on the floor in a circle.
 * 7) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Read a short about life in Japan so that children could see how Japanese people sit around their table on the floor. Explain that the tea ceremony is a very formal and traditional ceremony.
 * 8) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With the students, do a simple tea ceremony by demonstrating and explaining the following steps:
 * 9) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The teacher pretend fills up the cup with tea
 * 10) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The teacher turns to a student and both the student and teacher bow to each other before the teacher gives the cup to the student.
 * 11) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The student admires the tea bowl, rotates it, and takes a sip. Then the student wipes off the rim of the bowl with a cloth.
 * 12) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then the student turns to the person sitting next to them and all the steps are repeated around the circle until everyone has "drank" from the tea bowl.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Adapted from [] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tea Ceremony Resource

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Late Elementary Activity
<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Japan Trade Game <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Grades: 5-7 <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Materials: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Note: The game board, game cards, and check up sheet can be found in this pdf file on pages 36-42. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[|Japan Lessons pdf]
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Game board for each pair of students.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Dice for each pair of students
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Markers
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">US & Japan cards printed and cut out for each pair of students
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Check Up Sheets for each student
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Vocab word list and definitions
 * 1) <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The purpose of this activity is to help students understand the significance of trade between the U.S. and Japan. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Introduce the following vocabulary words before starting the game: tariff, quota, import, export, productivity, capital, technology, protectionist, commodities, consumer, raw materials, market, investment, access, long range planning, balance of trade, inflation, trade mission.
 * 2) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Pass out the blown up game boards to the pairs of students and allow them to color the spaces.
 * 3) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Pass out cards. One student gets the Japan cards and one student gets the US cards. Explain the rules of the game.The players roll the dice and whoever rolls the highest number goes first.
 * 4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The players take turns rolling the dice and moving forward on the board that number of spaces. Then they need to pick up a card, read it aloud, and move forward or backward depending on the card. If the card says for your trading partner to move then they should move as indicated. Landing on a short-cut space allows the student to take a short cut.
 * 5) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">If the partners land on the same space the first to say, "Balance of Trade" gets to move ahead 3 spaces. The only way to win is to land exactly on the, "End" space.
 * 6) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">After the game is over, have students fill out the check up sheet as a review of what they have learned.

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Fine Arts Activity
<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">The Story of Sadako and the Art of Origami <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Grades: 4-6 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Materials: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Ask questions like: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 10. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tell the students that they will all be making their own paper cranes in class today.Pass out the origami paper and instructions. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">11. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Model how to fold the paper into a crane. Help students when needed <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Closure:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Map
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Place Called Hiroshima
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">folded paper cranes
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">origami paper
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">scissors
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">three simple origami instruction sheets
 * 1) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Introduce the topic by asking students the following questions:
 * 2) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Has anyone seen a paper crane before? (show class crane).
 * 3) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Can anyone tell me what art form is this called?
 * 4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Does anyone know what country origami originated in? (China).
 * 5) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tell students that there is a true story about a girl who lived in Hiroshima, Japan during WWII that involves cranes.
 * 6) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Show the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
 * 7) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Have students locate Hiroshima on map.
 * 8) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Read the book aloud to the students.
 * 9) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Show the class real pictures of Sadako and the memorial that was built for her.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What did Sadako's classmates do for her after she died? Sadako folded 644 of the paper cranes.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Do we build memorials for people who have died also?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Can someone think of examples we have of memorials for people who have died?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In Japan, the crane is considered a symbol of luck and peace. What things symbolize luck for you?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What symbols do we have in the United States that symbolize peace?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Ask can someone tell me something that they learned in today's lesson that you did not know before?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What is origami?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What country is Hiroshima in?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What do cranes and the statue of Sadako represent to the people of Hiroshima?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson adapted from [] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|How to fold an origami crane]