Postcards from Tokyo has students explore aspects of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, and Japanese culture through interactive postcards created with augmented reality by elementary students in Tokyo. The interactive postcards are a product of Tokyo students鈥� integrated studies of Olympic Education, English, and Technology. In this lesson, students use these primary sources to develop skills in integration and categorization of information, as well as global competence and comparison. The lesson is written for lower-elementary grades but is an engaging introduction to Tokyo and Japan studies for older students.
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Tokyo, 1964 and 2020: Japanese Culture and Olympic Games听is a multi-day mentor-text study or before- or after-school book group study featuring the autobiographical historical fiction chapter book,听J-Boys: Kazuo鈥檚 World, Tokyo, 1965听by Shogo Oketani and translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa. Through this exploration of a Japanese book in translation, with a theme of continuity and change and a setting in Tokyo a year after the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, students develop: global competence by investigating aspects of Japanese culture and geography; and geographic and historical thinking skills as they consider legacies of the 1964 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The suggested level for this lesson is grades 5-8.
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