Lesson Plan

Japanese Tea Ceremony Lesson Plan: Bigs Edition

Read a primary source, run a settling lab, trace tea history, and host a gathering.

This is the Bigs Edition of Japanese Tea Ceremony: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 7-8. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How did a simple bowl of tea become an art that still shapes Japanese culture today?

The Week

• Mon: Tea as a Primary Source (Reading) • Tue: Argue for Slowness (Writing & Words) • Wed: Fine Powder Physics (Science & Math) • Thu: Plan the Gathering (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Host and Present (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Japanese Tea Ceremony has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 7-8 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Bigs (grades 7-8), about 90 to 120 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: The Settling Lab
• Sequence cards (Tea Comes to Japan) and a cut-and-sort page (Thin Tea or Thick Tea?)
• Writing page: Are Slow Rituals Worth Keeping?
• Hands-on project: Host a Tea Gathering
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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