Grade Level: 1

Subjects:

• Social Studies
• Language Arts
• Technology

Timeline 2 40 minute lessons

Goal/Objectives:

• To encourage cultural awareness and an appreciation of the people and culture of Japan.
• To promote the Japanese culture in the school and local community.
• To learn some basic Japanese writing
• To identify Japan on a map

Materials

• Japanese writing samples
• Digital camera
• Computer drawing program

Overview

Receiving postcards is always exciting, especially when you receive them at school. These postcards will be a great and exciting way to exchange information with Japanese students. Students will create postcards in computer class. These postcards can include a digital picture of the student, original hand or computer generated drawing, and of course some autobiographical information. Students will also introduce themselves in Japanese (Hi my name is...).

By exchanging postcards students will be excited and motivated about reading and writing.