recycle-7

Title	江戸のリサイクル（１） Recycling in the Edo Era (1)
Unit/Lesson No.	Recycle/Lesson 7
Topic	Lifestyle and garbage in the Edo Era
Function	Comparison, brainstorm
Focus	Learn the relationship between lifestyle and garbage in the Edo Era and compare them with current situations.

I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS

Purpose of This Lesson

Students will learn about the relationship between lifestyle and the amount of garbage produced during the Edo Era. They will make comparison with current lifestyles and issues concerning garbage.

Teacher Instructions

Before class, prepare the handout and transparency.
Show the picture of the city of Edo to introduce the Tokugawa capital, using Script 1 and the picture on Transparency 1.
Explain the activities using Transparency 2. Distribute Handout 1. Have students read the passage first and then complete activities 1 & 2 individually. Check their answers using the transparency.
Explain activity 3 and have students work on it in pairs. Check their answers.
Explain activity 4 and have students brainstorm in groups of three. Share their answers with the whole class.
Explain activity 5 and have students discuss in groups of three or four. Based on their discussion, have the whole class discuss the issues.

Teacher Presentation Sample Scripts

Script 1

これは江戸時代の江戸の町の様子です。１７世紀の江戸の人口はどのくらいだったと思いますか。（学生の答え：１０万人？）江戸には、１００万人の人が住んでいました。たくさん人が住んでいましたね。江戸の町には、ごみがたくさんあったと思いますか。ごみをどうしていたと思いますか。（学生の答え：うめた。もやした。）江戸時代の人はリサイクルをしていたと思いますか。（学生の答え：リサイクルをした。）ええ、江戸時代の人もごみをうめたり、燃やしたりしていました。それに、たくさんリサイクルもしていました。

Answer Key to Student Activities

1. a.リユース

2. No, because people in the Edo Era were using things carefully and even when those items became old or broken, they repaired and reused them.

3. (Answers may vary.) ex. a. e. f

4. ex. 冷蔵庫を修理して使っています。

Notes

Website sources:

江戸の回収専門業者

Leaning from Recycling during the Edo Period, WAHOO! Spring 2002

江戸のごみ処理事情

Visual resources:

Clipart

II. STUDENT ACTIVITY HANDOUTS

Handout 1

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions.

今は物がありあまっています¹。しかし、江戸時代には物があまりなかったので、人々は持っている物を大切に使いました。また、古くなったり、こわれた物はなんでも修理して²使ったので、ごみもあまり出ませんでした。江戸には、古い物やこわれた物を集めたり、修理したり、また売ったりする仕事がたくさんでき、すべて商売³として成り立っていました⁴。使い捨ての時代⁵に生きている⁶私達には、江戸時代の生活⁷からたくさん学べることがありそうです。

1. ありあまる = overabundant	2. しゅうりする = to repair	3. しょうばい = business
4. としてなりたつ = to be realized as	5. つかいすてのじだい = "throwaway" era	6. いきる = to live
7. せいかつ = life, lifestyle

1. Which one of the "3Rs" were people exercising during the Edo Era?

a. リデュース b. リユース c. リサイクル

2. According to the passage, was there a lot of garbage produced during the Edo Era? Why or why not?

Yes / No

Reason(s): _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

3. Work in pairs. The following are items which people in Edo repaired and reused. Circle the ones that people in contemporary society repair and reuse. Can you come up with any other items people repair and reuse?

a. 着物 (服)	b. なべ	c. せともの

d. ほうき	e. ほうちょう	f. げた (くつ)

g. かさ	h. めがね	i. かぎ

4. In groups of three, brainstorm and write down all the items you and your family repair and reuse, and why. Share the results with the class.

例: 車を修理して乗っています。新しい車を買うのはお金がかかるからです。

________________________________________________________________

5. Discuss the following in groups of three or four.

At the end of the passage, it says “使い捨ての時代に生きている私達には、江戸時代の生活からたくさん学べることがありそうです.”

· What aspect of Edo lifestyle should we employ?

· Why do you think we should practice them?

· What obstacles might you encounter?

· How can we overcome them?

III. VISUAL AIDS FOR TEACHERS

Transparency 1

江戸の町の風景（安藤広重）

www.net-ir.ne.jp/.../images/vol068_8234ph02.jpg

Transparency 2

same as Handout 1

IV. FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

Have students discuss problems concerning repairing and reusing items in modern lifestyle - whether repairing might cost more than purchasing a new item or whether it is possible to get only needed parts for further use instead of buying a whole new item.