Lesson Plan

Tokyo Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Plan a day in Tokyo on a budget, fold a crane, and build a street in a shoebox.

This is the Middles Edition of Tokyo: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. 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 does a city of 37 million people run so smoothly, and what did it look like when it was Edo?

The Week

• Mon: A School in Train Cars (Reading) • Tue: Writing Tokyo (Writing & Words) • Wed: A Day in Tokyo on a Budget (Science & Math) • Thu: Shoebox Street Scene (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Tokyo Travel Show (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Tokyo 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 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: A Day in Tokyo on 6,000 Yen
• Sequence cards (Fold a Paper Crane) and a cut-and-sort page (Then (Edo) or Now (Tokyo)?)
• Writing page: My Tokyo Travel Diary
• Hands-on project: Shoebox Tokyo Street
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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