LRC / Departmental resources and links (Our Lady's High School, Motherwell, Scotland)

Photo: Mount Fuji with cherry blossom and bullet train Imagine you run a travel agency.

Your task is to create an itinerary for a school visit to Japan. The trip will last a week, with two days for travel and five days spent in Japan itself.

Start by brainstorming:

What do you associate with Japan?
Which places would you like to visit?
What activities would you like to watch or take part in?
How would you travel about?

Work in a group making sure to split the work fairly between you.

Lesson 1
Library Resource Centre

Brainstorm lots of ideas onto a mindmap: what does Japan mean to you?

Discuss possible places, events or activities to go and see with your group.

Lessons 2 and 3
LRC

Researching Japan. One week you will be using web resources and one week you will be using printed resources.

Keep in touch with your group so you're not all researching the same things!

Lessons 4 and 5
LRC and Classroom

Create your itinerary.

Weblinks
Kids Web Japan	Peggy's Japan
Japan National Tourism Organisation	Fun things to do in Japan
Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts	Trends in Japan
Your name in Japanese	Japan sightseeing guide
Japan event calendar	JNTO Transport Guide

Printed resources

'Japan' on the library catalogue
Encyclopaedias and atlases
Blank maps of Japan

Assessment

Your group project should include:

A contents page
A map showing places to be visited
Visits for five days in Japan

Your project will be marked out of 10.

1 point for your group map
1 point for your group contents page
5 points for one of the five days

Groups will also mark each member:

1 point: group member took part a wee bit
2 points: group member was quite helpful and came up with ideas
3 points: group member worked hard throughout and helped the whole team