The Tidal Wave with Anne Shimojima

Are you brave enough to take the risk? Will you make the difficult decision to do the right thing to save your village? This Japanese folktale might just inspire you to be more brave!
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL7

This fast draw video will show you how to stay safe when a tsunami comes to your village: https://coast.noaa.gov/gallery/videos...

Learn how tsunamis are tracked: https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/trackingt...

Folktales about the ocean and her creatures are common in every coastal culture around the world, learn and tell a few of your own:
https://folklorethursday.com/regional...
http://www.fairytalenight.com/2020/03...

To learn more about Anne or to invite her to your community visit her website: https://www.anneshimojima.com

Learn more about Hamaguchi Gory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguc....
Learn more about Lafcadio Hern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadi...

Is there folklore that you know that tells a water story? What will you do? Here's an action planning worksheet! https://forms.gle/tM1dDiEkoHw67RKY6

The Sun Foundation Clean Water Celebration is a truly unique event, a model developed in Peoria for the world. Since its inception in 1994 as a collaboration between the Rivers Project and Sun Foundation, it has reached an estimated 60,000 students and adults. The goal is to teach the importance of thinking globally and acting locally to protect the right to clean water and a healthy environment. By increasing knowledge in the community and schools about the importance of water conservation and preservation, the Sun Foundation Clean Water Celebration builds networks of awareness and action. It is our dream that this program will grow to link school to school, community to community, state to state, and country to country, to take action and clean and protect our water and our environment.