Teacher Resources
Find the perfect guide to complement your elementary or middle school lesson plans. Our Educator Guides can help turn your next group visit into an educational experience to remember. Below you’ll find a guide for our permanent exhibition: The Yamato Colony: Pioneering Japanese in Florida. The guide include tour info, lesson plans, extra resources, professional development guides and more!
Yamato Colony Educator’s Guide
This Educator’s Guide offers the elementary or middle school teacher lesson plans to complement the Yamato Colony pictorial exhibit that details the Japanese farming community that existed here during the early to mid 1900s.
George’s Journey: A Japanese Immigrant’s South Florida Experience
George’s classic immigrant story — an ambitious young man, seeking opportunity, travels to America to make a better life for himself, is central to the history of Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens. Educators are invited to share this story of perseverance and prosperity through a traditional Japanese storytelling device – kamishibai, or paper drama.
For consultation, please email Wendy Lo at wlo@pbcgov.org.
Full STEAM Ahead Educator’s Guide
Encourage your students to become garden designers with the Full STEAM Ahead Tour Educator Guide. This document contains pre and post visit activities to ensure sustainable STEAM-based learning in and out of the classroom.
Full STEAM Ahead Guide (Grades 3-5)
For consultation, please email Wendy Lo at wlo@pbcgov.org.
Roji-en: Gardens of the Drops of Dew Educator’s Guide
The following Educator’s Guide was designed to promote literacy and mindfulness as students create poems reflecting on their time in the gardens.
Sound Safari (Grades K-5) Roji-en Garden (Grades 6-12) Roji-en: A Guide to the Plants
For consultation, please email Wendy Lo at wlo@pbcgov.org.
Online Resources
There are many resources for information about Japan online. Listed here are some recommended websites as well as local performers and organizations eager to share their talents and knowledge with area students.
Morikami:
- Educator Membership
- Teacher Resource Packets (above)
Consulate:
Schools:
Performers & Artists:
- Fushu Daiko – Taiko Drumming
- Ronin Taiko -Taiko Drumming
- Kuniko Yamamoto – Storytelling
- Suzuki Music Academy
- Yoshiko Carlton – Koto
Educator Resources:
- American Pastime Classroom Guide (Baseball and Japanese-American Internment Camp)
- Asian Educational Media Service
- Asia Society Education Center
- Hiragana Practice
- Origamido
- Kamishibai for Kids
Kids’ Websites:
Japan Insights: