The Japan Foundation, Sydney : Newsletter

Classroom Ideas and Resources

The classroom ideas and resources here were originally written for ‘Sensei’s pages’ which is a section of the Japan Foundation, Sydney’s newsletter ‘Omusubi’. We have listed items according to the following levels, but you may find them useful for other levels.

* Click on a la carte, and yomimono for more information and resources.

Classroom ideas & resources 1- Primary
	Time and Verbs (May 2001)
	Travel to Japan (August 2001)
	Japanese Folktales ‘Bunbuku chagama’ - Reading manga (May 2002)
	Reading to Children (Summer 2006)
	Learning language through song and hand movements (Summer 2007)
	Activity ideas using students' own names (Winter 2008)

Classroom ideas & resources 2 – Middle Years, Junior Secondary
	Japanese Myths - Reading manga (February 2002)
	Me and My Family - Writing (August 2002, November 2002)
	Japanese Folktales ‘Saru kani gassen’ - Reading manga (February 2003)
	Incorporating culture - Sumo (May 2003)
	Japanese Folktales ‘Taketori monogatari’ - Reading manga (Autumn 2005)
	Teaching Kanji 1 (Winter 2005)
	Japanese Folktales ‘Ikyuu-san’ - Reading manga (Winter 2006)
	Intercultural Language Learning on the topic of 'Obento' (Spring 2006)
	Creating a restaurant menu (Winter 2007)
	Using SNS (Social Networking Services) in Japanese classes (Autumn 2008)
	Activity ideas using students' own names (Winter 2008)

Classroom ideas & resources 3 – Senior Secondary
	Requesting and Offering (February 2001)
	Reporting Information - Reading (November 2001)
	Me and My Family - Writing (August 2002, November 2002)
	Incorporating culture - Sumo (May 2003)
	Japanese Comics - Reading manga (February 2004)
	Teaching Kanji 1 (Winter 2005)
	Teaching Kanji 2 (Spring 2005)
	Reading Japanese News (Autumn 2006)
	Reading Japanese news (Autumn 2007)
	Using SNS (Social Networking Services) in Japanese Class (Autumn 2008)
	Activity ideas using students' own names (Winter 2008)

Classroom ideas & resources 4 - Multi level
	Reading Japanese websites (August 2003)
	Searching for the information on Japanese websites (November 2003)
	Skits (May 2004)
	Information Gap (August 2004)
	Learning about culture and society through cultural products: Omusubi (Spring 2004)
	Teaching Japanese Pronunciation (Summer 2005)

If you have any questions please contact us on (02) 8239 0077 or email comments or ideas to koji_matsumoto@jpf.org.au.