Discover Your Neighbors!Asia-Pacific Culture Expo 2010 As a daily lifestyle specialist you will research and become the general knowledge expert and present the daily lifestyle routines of your chosen country. Investigate your chosen country and their practices of their daily lives. Utilize the following questions, activities, and websites for your investigation. 1. What kind of accommodation and transport does your country have? How does this relate to you? Write about what sort of transport we have here in Australia and how does it compare to the transport in the past? You can write your own narrative of a child's life who does not have a proper home and their transport around the town is a donkey? How would you feel, and think? Write in a first voice passage?
2. What traditional food does your country eat and cook? Create a booklet of different food recipes that you would find in your country. Why are these foods classified to be Chilean, or Japanese etc. Make a display booklet for your booth.
3. What age do the children go to school? How would you create your ideal classroom using arts products. You could draw a diagram showing a typical classroom, make sure to include rules of your ideal classroom.
4. What are your country's famous cultural and heritage attractions? Using clay or play dough create a heritage site from your country. Explain why you have chosen to modal that specific cultural heritage site. What is the importance of this heritage site? Why is it so important to your country?
5. What is your country's climate like and what seasons in a year do they have? Compare this to Australian climate and seasons; are they at the same time of the year? Why/Why not?
6. Search for children stories. Select a favorite story and record it with your voice.
7. Collect money notes or coins from your country (alternatively print them off from the internet). How much would you get in exchange of 1 Australian dollar in your local currency? Have a look at each coin/note. What pictures are on them? Choose at least 3 objects or people portrayed on notes/coins and provide the background information - who/what are they? Why are the pictures on the notes/coins?
8. Think about how to display/present daily lifestyle in your country booth.
9. Summarize your outcome for 15 minutes' talk to your team members.
As a daily lifestyle specialist you will research and become the general knowledge expert and present the daily lifestyle routines of your chosen country. Investigate your chosen country and their practices of their daily lives. Utilize the following questions, activities, and websites for your investigation.
1. What kind of accommodation and transport does your country have? How does this relate to you? Write about what sort of transport we have here in Australia and how does it compare to the transport in the past? You can write your own narrative of a child's life who does not have a proper home and their transport around the town is a donkey? How would you feel, and think? Write in a first voice passage?
2. What traditional food does your country eat and cook? Create a booklet of different food recipes that you would find in your country. Why are these foods classified to be Chilean, or Japanese etc. Make a display booklet for your booth.
3. What age do the children go to school? How would you create your ideal classroom using arts products. You could draw a diagram showing a typical classroom, make sure to include rules of your ideal classroom.
4. What are your country's famous cultural and heritage attractions? Using clay or play dough create a heritage site from your country. Explain why you have chosen to modal that specific cultural heritage site. What is the importance of this heritage site? Why is it so important to your country?
5. What is your country's climate like and what seasons in a year do they have? Compare this to Australian climate and seasons; are they at the same time of the year? Why/Why not?
6. Search for children stories. Select a favorite story and record it with your voice.
7. Collect money notes or coins from your country (alternatively print them off from the internet). How much would you get in exchange of 1 Australian dollar in your local currency? Have a look at each coin/note. What pictures are on them? Choose at least 3 objects or people portrayed on notes/coins and provide the background information - who/what are they? Why are the pictures on the notes/coins?
8. Think about how to display/present daily lifestyle in your country booth.
9. Summarize your outcome for 15 minutes' talk to your team members.
*Explore the following websites
Japan
China
New Zealand
Micronesia
Chile