Lesson+3+-+Exploring+Cultures

In groups of 2 you will be exploring different cultures of the world! There are many different choices: Indigenous Australians, Japan, Russia, Canada, China, Britain and Germany.

This is the page for those groups who chose **Japan **. 

**//Task 1:// Find the following information. (You may write your findings in your notebook or open a Word document.)**
 * Map
 * Flag
 * Population
 * Capital City
 * Official Language(s)
 * Currency
 * Life expectancy
 * Religions practiced
 * Type of government
 * Head of government



<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**//Task 2:// Fill in the Venn Diagram. Type in everything you know about Australia in the Australia circle. Type in everything you know about Japan in the Japan circle. Then type in everything that Japan and Australia have in common in the middle intersecting part of the circles.**





<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**//Task 3:// Create a tourism poster for Japan. This is your chance to get creative! You have two choices to create this poster. You can either use an A3 piece of paper and draw, colour or cut out pictures from magazines or you can create a poster on the computer where you can use pictures you find on the web, or even .gif images if you know how to to do that. It must include the following things: map, and 3 other things you have researched in Task 1. It has to be visually appealing, you want to convince others to visit Japan!**

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Here is a video from Tourism Japan to get some inspiration. media type="youtube" key="ubTSx-4VmAs" height="344" width="425"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Here is the Japanese National Anthem for more inspiration! media type="youtube" key="EYLzyRl0hUw" height="344" width="425"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">So you are finished all the tasks are you? Well try your hand on Asian geography! Start as a beginner and work your way up to expert! Good luck! Click this link:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Asian_Geography.htm