AskAsia Lesson Plans
AskAsia provides 59 lesson plans searchable by grade level, era of history, or region. There are also 116 background essays, maps, and images.
Classroom Activities about India
Classroom Activities about India are written by Fullbright scholars who traveled to India in 1998. Some of the lesson topics (Arranged Marriages, Education in India) compare/contrast Indian and American cultures and should appeal to students. In the Arranged Marriages lesson you'll find interesting Indian advertisements for brides. "What is Sacred?" compares and contrasts the places considered sacred in US and Indian culture. Eye for an Eye is about teaching Modern Indian History through the film Gandhi. Education in India examines four Indian schools the scholars visited. There is also a "Self-Directed Exploration of Hindu Mythology" aimed at younger students.
IndoLink: Kids Corner
In this "Kids Corner" section of the INDOlink site, there are stories from Indian mythology, Stories of India's Great People, Stories about India's Festivals, and more.
Experiencing India's Caste System
After taking on the role of a person from Ancient India (3000 yrs ago) including status in a specific caste, students create three journal entries and share them with the class. There are links to sites on caste, a glossary of terms, and an Inspiration worksheet on caste. Grade 6 WebQuest.
Deciphering Buddha Imagery
Before you can honor a Buddha you have to recognize him—and there are many depictions in Buddhist art that resemble "The Enlightened One." This site uses Flash animation to help you understand the meanings of the five most common hand gestures, or mudras, used in Buddhist art. Engaging way to present Buddha icons.
Daily Life in India
Don Donn of the Corkran (Maryland) Middle School provides a complete unit with daily lesson plans and unit test for sixth graders. There are also links to multiple K12 lesson plans.
Muslim-Hindu Conflict in India
Students investigate the causes and consequences of the deep-rooted conflict between Muslims and Hindus in India -- particularly in the province of Gujarat. Students will consider the larger questions of whether religious beliefs can ever legitimize violence or whether religious conflict is an inevitable human experience. Part of BBC Religion & Ethics Lesson Plan
The Tibet Question (WebQuest)
An interesting project with many useful links on the Tibet issue: "An international news agency is doing a special on "The Tibet Question". They will be interviewing members of the Tibetan groups, Chinese and US government officials, representatives of human rights organizations and Chinese scholars. You will be assigned to one of these groups in preparation for this news special."
The Ramayana in Southeast India
Grade 6 students are instructed to write a shadow puppet scene drawn from a Southeast Asian variant of the Ramayana to perform in class and to work collaboratively on a class sewing project to construct a Ramayana story cloth in the tradition of Southeast Asia.
Bhutan, the Last Shangri-La: Buddhism and Ecology
In this PBS lesson plan students will use the Internet, watch video clips, write a paragraph, make a chart (and more) to find out which countries observe Buddhism as their main religion, learn about Buddhist attitudes toward ecology, and write and perform or tell an allegory similar in scope to the story of the Four Harmonious Friends.
Ramayana: Connecting Communication Arts and Social Studies
These lessons are taken from Spotlight on Ramayana: An Enduring Tradition, a curriculum guide published by the American Forum.
Look for Symbol in Sculpture: Fudô Myô-ô
in this MET Museum activity you roll your cursor over the image to identify a symbol and to discover what it means. Fudô Myô-ô, a Buddhist deity from Japan, guards the Buddhist faith and helps believers who pray for assistance.
The World's History: Hinduism and Buddhism
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. Professor Spodek identifies the categories historians can deal with: the sanctification of time, of space, of language and literature, of artistic and cultural activity, as well as the creation of religious organizations.
The World's History: Indian Empires
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. India developed into a single loosely-unified but persistent cultural region through the operation of what Professor Spodek calls "intermediate" institutions. He discusses political disunity in this chapter and the forces of cultural unity in the next.
The World's History: River Valley Civilizations
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. This chapter focuses on the civilizations which developed in the Nile valley of Egypt and the Indus River valley of India/Pakistan.
Brief Review in Global History and Geography: Document Based Essays and Practice Tests
PH@School's Brief Review in Global History and Geography Web site provides multiple-choice questions from actual Regents exams. You can also practice your test-taking skills on document-based essay questions (DBQs), with the option of e-mailing answers directly to your teacher for review.
India&China
This web site introduces the content, approach, texts and topics used in a three-year professional development program on India and China for school teachers. The site features a variety of segments from the program such as the two Summer Institutes. A photo gallery is added to provide a more human glimpse of the spirit and scope of the program. Also provided here are links to select internet sites on or about Asia.
The British Museum
The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum. Its various online offerings are impressive. The World Cultures website highlights achievements of some remarkable world civilizations and explores cross-cultural themes of human development. It features interactive multimedia resources, historical reconstructions and 3D animations and atttracts millions of visitors each year.
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
The Sport of Life and Death was voted Best Overall Site for 2002 by Museums and the Web and has won a slew of other web awards. The site is based on a traveling exhibition and bills itself as "an online journey into the ancient spectacle of athletes and gods." The Sport of Life and Death features dazzling special effects courtesy of Macromedia Flash technology and its overall layout and organization are superb. Not just stylish, the site's content is excellent and engaging as well. For instance, there are helpful interactive maps, timelines, and samples of artwork in the Explore the Mesoamerican World section. The focus of the site, however, is the Mesoamerican ballgame, the oldest organized sport in history. The sport is explained through a beautiful and engaging combination of images, text, expert commentary, and video. Visitors can even compete in a contest! A must see for Middle School or 9th-grade World History teachers.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook contains hundreds of well-organized sources; the main sections are Human Origins, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Hellenistic World, Rome, Late Antiquity, and Christian Origins. The Ancient History Sourcebook also includes links to visual and aural material, as art and archeology play a prominent role in the study of Ancient history. There are also pages designed specifically to help teacher and students: Ancient History in the Movies, Using Primary Sources, Nature of Historiography, Other Sources of Information on Ancient History, and more.
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Part of PBS's Frontline series, this companion site explores archeological clues to Jesus' life, paints a portrait of his world, examines the gospels and the first Christians, and discusses why Christianity succeeded. From Jesus to Christ features the testimony of New Testament theologians, archaeologists, and historians who address issues relating to Jesus' life and the evolution of Christianity. The site also offers interactive maps, a timeline, an anthology of primary sources, a discussion forum, and a biblical quiz. A new addition is the edited transcript of a two-day symposium at Harvard University which served as a follow-up to the FRONTLINE broadcast and featured scholars' presentations, workshops and audience discussion.
AMERICAN HISTORY
Library of Congress
An outstanding and invaluable site for American history and general studies. Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures.
Center for History and New Media: History Matters
A production of the American Social History Project/Center of Media and Learning, City of University New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, History Matters is a wonderful online resource for history teachers and students.
Digital History
This impressive site from Steven Mintz at the University of Houston includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology. Visual histories of Lincoln's America and America's Reconstruction contain text by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney.
PBS Online
A great source for information on a myriad of historical events and personalities. PBS's assorted and diverse web exhibits supplement their television series and generally include a summary of each episode, interviews (often with sound bites), a timeline, primary sources, a glossary, photos, maps, and links to relevant sites. PBS productions include American Experience, Frontline and People's Century.
CNN.com Archives
The CNN Archives feature special in-depth reports on key current American (and World) events, issues and personalities.
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Exploring Leonardo
A great site for students (grades 4-9) by the Boston Museum of Science, Exploring Leonardo is organized into four major learning areas and a resource center and offers engaging lessons in science, art, history, and language arts.
World Cultures to 1500: Early Modern Italian Renaissance
This online course by Professor Thomas Hooker, based at Washington State University, offers a terrific overview of Ancient and Medieval History, including the Renaissance. It offers clear and informative lecture notes, maps, a photo gallery, timelines, links to relevant sites, and more.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. The site and its documents are well organized and the breadth of materials is impressive.
Renaissance
This informative Annenberg/CPB site introduces the visitor to the intellectual, political, technological, and economic forces that drove cultural rebirth in Europe, and in Italy in particular. There are five sections: Out of the Middle Ages, Exploration and Trade, Printing and Thinking, Symmetry, Shape, Size, and Focus on Florence. Out of the Middle Ages covers the plague, a new middle class, and the resurgence of cities.
Renaissance Secrets
Renaissance Secrets is an interactive BBC Web site that explores select events of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and discusses the process and art of writing history.
Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Hosted by the University of Toronto, the CRRC is a research center with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700.
The World's History: The Industrial Revolution, 1740-1914
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic.
Inventions That Changed the World
Students will create small group projects that illustrate the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, the ways this revolution shaped Victoria's reign as Queen of England, and the ways this invention contributed to the idea of a world economy. PBS, Middle School
The World's History: The Unification of World Trade, 1500-1776
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic.
The World's History: Demography and Migration, 1500-1750
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic.
Course Models: The Italian Renaissance
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course which includes: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, assessments, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic sites. Grade 7.
AP European History Web Links and Primary Source Documents
Historyteacher.net offers 1000s of links to great web sites and primary source documents. Just pick a topic and go to that page where you will find a large number of links that can be used for research and study. You will also be directed to in-depth, detail-linked class assignments on several topics.
BBC History Games: Battle of Waterloo
Play the game and take sides in the Battle of Waterloo. Then find out more about the battle, the tactics employed, and the consequences for Europe.
BBC History Games: Elizabethan Spying
Play the game and see if you can crack the code that incriminated Mary, Queen of Scots.
BBC History Games: Victorian Women's Rights
Play the game to find out how women's rights evolved during the Victorian Age.
BBC History: Kings and Queens Through Time
In this animated timeline you put the kings and queens of England, and later the United Kingdom, in their proper place. There are four periods to explore. The Plantagenets and the Houses of Lancaster and York are featured in the first period, the Tudors and Stuarts in the second, and the House of Hanover in the third. The timeline concludes with the Windsors.
BBC History: Stephenson's Rocket Animation
Play the animation to operate the Rocket, considered by many to be the forerunner of all steam locomotives, and a key factor in the advance of the Industrial Revolution.
BBC History: Spinning Mill Animation
Play the animation to operate a steam-powered spinning mill.
BBC History: The Changing British Population Animation
Play the animation, and track how key events in British history have affected the size of the British population.
BBC History: The Great Fire of London Animation
View the animation to see contemporary etchings of the London skyline, showing the extent of the devastation. Afterwards, you could view the changing designs for St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt in the aftermath of the fire by Sir Christopher Wren.
BBC History: The History of European Map Making Animation
Explore the changing European view of the world in the animated history of maps across the centuries. The Map Animation features images that are reproduced courtesy of the British Library.
BBC History: The Endeavour Virtual Tour
Captain Cook set sail on the Endeavour, a refitted Whitby coal ship, in 1768. The Endeavour was to sail to Taihiti to watch the 'transit of Venus', and then on to the South Pacific to complete a top secret mission. Cook went on to chart New Zealand and the previously uncharted east coast of Australia in what has now become a legendary voyage.
BBC History Games: The Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes was among a gang of Roman Catholic conspirators who wanted to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James VI of Scotland and I of England. As part of their plan, they stored gunpowder kegs in the cellars of the House of Lords. You must find those kegs before the fizzing fuse causes disaster!
National Curriculum in Action: ICT in History
The UK National Curriculum in Action website includes examples of pupils' work with ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in History, with teacher commentary on how ICT enhanced learning in the subject.
ART HISTORY
National Gallery of Art ArtsEdge Odyssey Online The Incredible Art Department teachart.net Portrait Detectives Renaissance Connection Writing in Art History Cultural "Art"-ifacts: Learning About World Cultures Through Art Art History Adventures KinderArt Art Teacher on the Net ArtsConnectEd Art History Quiz
The National Gallery of Art has over 120 free-loan education resources. Titles range in format from color slide programs and teaching packets, to videocassettes, cd-roms and dvd's. The varied program topics provide opportunities for use in non-art curricula such as social studies, literature, and foreign languages.
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
The Odyssey Online project was developed to help educators teach using works of art from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Africa. The Teacher Resource explains ways in which this project meets curriculum standards. Designed for elementary and middle school-aged students.
Art Lessons and Resources provide many helpful lessons and ideas, including Art History games.
The Basics of Art section offers lesson plans and there is much more to explore.
This online activity is for independent readers, or an educator who enjoys reading aloud. It shows, interactively, how to discern which clues in any given portrait help to put it, its subject, and often the artist all in historical context. A wonderful way to introduce (or reinforce) the concept of critical thinking in art.
The Renaissance Connection, the Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site, explores Renaissance visual arts and innovations. There is a collection of online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers to help visitors design their own innovations, investigate Renaissance artworks in depth, and discover how past innovations impact life today. Fun, educational site for middle school students.
A web form all about writing an art history paper from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See also the included link on MLA Format citations.
In this New York Times lesson, students explore how culture is reflected through art. After researching the art of a specific culture, students create replicas of art objects that reflect the ideals, values, and history of the culture.
Educational Web Adventures develops award-winning online learning activities about art, history, and science. Their mission is to create exciting and effective learning experiences. Their Art History Adventures is a fun, educational experience appropriate for elementary school children. There are also Teachers' Resources.
KinderArt is all about making art fun for kids and easy for adults who teach art to kids. Currently, there are over 1000 art-incorporating ideas and lesson plans, as well as an extensive library section and many, many other features.
Offers ideas, lesson plans, and projects for teachers, parents, and group leaders. It offers a spot for the exchange of ideas between educators, as well as after-school and adult education project areas.
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center this site includes an online art gallery, library, and interactive activities. The Classroom section features a searchable database of educational materials and a Teacher's Guide.
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