【Online Teaching Support】Worksheets for Online Learning: Mottainai Baasan and Furoshiki
2020.08.12
The picture book series Mottainai Baasan, published in 2004, is a best seller that has sold over one million copies. It has been published serially in magazines and also translated into several languages. In June of this year, the Mottainai Baasan anime series debuted on YouTube.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKr-JSMJP4&list=PLK6k_jC4_34BPKf4fuRFFQbfDVtDVXw1j&index=2 (Official)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M184dGeiDks ("Let's Eat with Gratitude")
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5YtwYeULis&list=PLK6k_jC4_34BPKf4fuRFFQbfDVtDVXw1j&index=5&t=0s ("Goes to the River")
Mottainai Baasan appears out of nowhere when we are doing something wasteful, and shows us how to change our habits. In this issue, we introduce activities around the Mottainai Baasan anime series and the contents of "eco-friendly living" from the Takarabako archives, aiming to provide opportunities for students to think about and discuss what they can do to help the environment.
Worksheets for three different levels are available.
Takarabako
https://www.tjf.or.jp/clicknippon/en/archive/docs/TB20_E.pdf (English)
The activities will cover the following skills:
• Sustainability - Global issues
• Viewing skills
• ICLL
• Cross curriculum (dance, art, music, math, food and nutrients, hydrologic cycle)
Worksheets can be downloaded from the link below.
