Alignment to the Ohio State Standards are included in each lesson plan. Lessons have been created for the following areas to date:
Social Studies:
Lesson plan series: “Journey along Japan’s National Road, the Tōkaidō- Using a Primary Source to Teach Historical Skills for Elementary Grades 1, 2, and 3”
- Grade One: Planes, Trains, and Horse-drawn Carts?
- Grade Two: The Mystery of the Disappearing Cart
- Grade Three: Messages from a Photograph
Lesson plan series: “Journey along Japan’s National Road, the Tōkaidō- using Cultural Snapshots: Lessons to teach Human Systems”
- Grade Two: Journey along Japan’s National Road (Grade 2-Part 1) (Grade 2 – Part 2)
- Grade Six: Journey along Japan’s National Road (Grade 6)
Lesson plan series: “Journey along two National Roads, U.S. 40 and the Tōkaidō of Japan: Teaching Historical Thinking Skills”
- Grade Four: Journey along two National Roads (Grade 4)
- Grade Seven: Journey along two National Roads (Grade 7)
Lesson plan series: “Journey along two National Roads, U.S. 40 (United States) and the Tōkaidō (Japan)
- High School: Journey along two National Roads (HS)
Lesson plan series: “Journey along the Tōkaidō – The “East Sea Road” of Japan: Using Cultural Snapshots for High School World Geography Courses.”
- High School: A Study in the Migration of People
- High School: Regions of Japan and the United States
- High School: How do Culture & the Environment Interact?
- High School: Was the Bullet Train for Japan the Best Idea?
- High School: The Tale of Two Cities: Regional Change
- High School: Spatial Arrangement Criteria Used
Visual Arts:
Tōkaidō -Japan’s National Road – Manga Art
Background Information about the Tōkaidō source (Overview):
To show change over time and compare cultures as well as learn more about a very important part of Japanese history and culture, the “Journey along the Tōkaidō” has been created using various primary source materials. Japan’s National Road, the Tōkaidō Road, from Tokyo to Kyoto in Japan is examined at various time periods (1830s, 1920s, and present day).
Students will study two primary source materials: the Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi manga emaki (The Fifty Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Manga Scroll, which will be referred to as the “Tōkaidō Manga Scroll”) and the The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō woodblock prints. This Tōkaidō manga scroll was created by 18 members of the Tokyo Manga Association during a trip approximating the route of the old Tōkaidō in 1921 and depicts scenes of Japanese culture, history, economics, daily life, transportation, architecture, and industry. Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige’s The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–1834 in the Hōeidō edition) is a series of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) of the stations along the Tōkaidō. These ukiyo-e prints became enormously popular and have been reprinted countless times down to the present. The scroll is part of an online module, “Journey along the Tōkaidō,” which includes a video of the scroll, links to the ukiyo-e (woodblock prints from 1833-34) and links to sections of the Tōkaidō area today, along with other background material.