Japanese Education
Grade 9 - 12
This is a two-lesson unit that strives to teach students the similarities of cultures through the education system. Students can compare and contrast their school to a Japanese school and view pictures of the Japanese students. There are lesson plans available, complete with activities and do nows.

Nick Del Valle
(Park West High School)

LESSON 1: AMERICAN AND JAPANESE SCHOOLS
This lesson seeks to draw out the information that students have gathered about Japanese schools and it clarifies the difference between fact and fiction. It further takes this information and differentiates it from American schools so that it becomes more personal to students. There is a lesson plan complete with do-now and two activities and a photograph is provided.

LESSON PLAN I PHOTOGRAPHS

LESSON 2: JAPANESE SCHOOLS - TRADITION AND MODERNITY
This lesson demonstrates how some methods of educating are modernized, but at the same time certain traditions have remained. It begins with an emphasis on the Japanese schools, but American schools are also reviewed for contrast. There is a lesson plan complete with do-now and two activities provided.