Web Quest

                                                            Adventure in Japan

• Introduction

     Now, you are thinking to travel Japan as a backpacker with your friends in this summer vacation. So, you have to decide where you are going to visit. You also need to search what famouse food are, where famous sightseeing spots are in Japan and so on. If you decide plan, you can enjoy your journey. However, if you don´t, you will get lost way, you spend much time to get to destination and you won`t be able to enjoy your trip. So let`t decide your plan, before you leave for Japan!

• Task

    Before you start to reserch, you should make groups. Each group should be 4 people.  Your first task is to decide which prefecture you are going to visit. You can use website and find interesting prefectures. So you must decide at least 4 prefectures which you are going to visit. After you decide prefectures, you can reserch famous  food, sightseeing spots and so on. You must find at least one food and sightseeing spot for each prefecture. and you write your itinerary. it is including route, food, sightseeing spot. So, one student research one prefecture.

• Process

     1. The first thing you have to do is to decide prefecture which you are going to visit. Japan is divided into 8 regions, Tohoku, Kantou, Hokuriku, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu. you discuss in your group, then you can choose one region from them.

     2. Now, you can choose prefectures which you are going to visit. Each region has 5- 8 prefectures. So you can choose at least 4 prefectures from them. Each student can resarch one prefecture. You can use website to research.

    3. Then, you can research famous food and sightseeing spots by using website, for example official homepage of each prefectures.

    4. After you decided your plan, you can write your itinerary on Microsoft Word.

    5. Meet with group menbers, give presentation to the other menbers.

    6. Complete your group trip schedule.

• Resources

Japan Guide.com - http://www.japan-guide.com/

Map of Japan -   http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/japan/

About.com -  http://gojapan.about.com/cs/articlesbytopic/a/articlesight.htm

Wa pedia -  http://www.wa-pedia.com/japan-guide/sightseeing.shtml

• Evaluation

	Beginning	Developing	Accomplished	Exenplary	Score
Region and Prefectures	not good selection	fair	acceptable	good connection
Selection Food  and sight spots	couldn´t find	found  a few	found some	found enough to satisfy
Understanding of Japan	not enough	aunderstand a little	understand	understand well
Clearness of schedule	not clear	a little difficult to see	clear enough	perfect
Discussion in group	not enough	discussed a little	discussed enough	good communication

You can also write your coment.

• Conclusion

     Now, you finished making your itinerary. I am sure you can travel in Japan smoothly without getting lost and you can enjoy your trip.

     You can also learn Japanese culture or Japanese history if you are interested in. You can use useful website and you can challenge to travel other region next time. Have a nice trip!!