This manual is designed to support teachers in implementing the instructional resource guides "Instructional Materials about Japan." The materials in this guide provide the basis for a full-day inservice training session. The suggested format can be modified to meet the needs of individual workshop leaders, various audiences, and…

This manual provides suggestions and materials for teaching about Japan. Designed as a supplement to typical textbook treatments, the lessons provide a range of readings, visuals, and activities to enrich and deepen student learning about Japan. Organized around topics dealing with history, geography, government, economics, and culture, the…

These lessons, designed for high school classrooms, focus on the country of Germany in teaching the five themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region). The lessons can be used individually via integration into the curriculum or collectively used as a complete stand-alone unit. The lessons are desigend…

This instructional package, consisting of a text and 13 transparencies, is designed for high school classrooms. The five lessons in the instructional package relate to the "Five Themes of Geography" (Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region) as promoted by the National Geographic Society. The lessons are…

This packet contains three lessons designed for the high school classroom. Lessons include: (1) "The German Worker"; (2) "Government in Germany"; and (3) "Culture and Daily Life in Germany." Student activities focus on comparative economic systems, worker training and apprenticeship programs, structure of government…

This packet is a primary/elementary instructional package targeted at grades K-3 with interest level extending to adult. The lessons of each topic draw heavily on interpretation of photographs and address the topics of physical and cultural geography, basic needs, community services and community helpers, transportation and communication,…