K-12 Lesson Plans
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Grades 5 – 6
Humanities
- Ancient Chinese Visual Arts (A. Conte)
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Storytelling through Music (K. Roseman)
Presentation: Boya Plays the Qin (K. Roseman)
Math and Science
- Coordinate Plane: Tessellations (V. Lam)
- Ratios and the Art of Mogao (B. Bergen)
- Earth Science and Weathering (T. Pineda)
Social Science
Grades 6 – 8
All Subjects
- Schoolwide Collaboration – Dunhuang Cave Day (S. Manley)
- Interactions along the Silk Road (L. Stubben)
Computer Animation
- Making a Multi-Class Animation Project using Mogao Cave Art (S. Pomeroy)
Project – Nine Colored Deer
Project: The Silk Road Project (S. Pomeroy, M. Natoli, A. Sveda) -
The Silk Roads - Cross-Cultural Art, Poetry and Inspiration (S.Pomeroy)
Humanities
- Making Mogao Magical (L. Stubben)
- Musical Time Travel (K. Roseman)
- Paper on the Silk Road (K. Villalba)
- Tales of Compassion: The Nine Color Deer (A. Rabina)
- The Mogao Caves & the Transmission of Buddhist Principles (A. Palmieri)
- The Religions and People of the Silk Road (A. Conte)
- Storytelling along the Silk Road/ Comparative Study of Morality Fables told along the Silk Road (H. Uyloan)
Social Science
Grades 9 - 12
Humanities
- Art/Art History Study of Buddhist Caves (N. Ramon)
- Buddhism and the Silk Road (L. Thompson)
- Connecting Cultures through Sign Language and Religious Gestures (C. Steinman)
- Cultural Presentations in World Languages (G. Wang)
- Cultural Reading Circles (K. Williams-Sams)
- Drawing on the Past - Art Projects Inspired by Ancient Correspondence (A. Bouse)
- Ethnic Groups in China (C. Chiu)
- Gender and Culture: Symbols and Stories (C. Hernandez)
- Studio Art – Borrowing from Dunhuang Bodhisattvas (A. Bouse)
- Symmetry and Symbolism: Mandalas of the Mogao Caves (J. Lee)
Project – Mandalas - Theory of Knowledge – Using texts from the Silk Road (P. Hatfield)
- Visual Arts – Landscape and Spiritual Experience (D. Hamby)
- Wall Paintings as a Source of Literary Short Stories (K. Mogan)
- Woven through Time (J. Lee)
Math and Science
- Algebra II – Effects of Tourism on Population Growth (T. Hee)
- Engineering Design – Design Challenge: Visitor’s Center at Mogao (S. Churchill)
- Geometry - Surface Area of a Compound Solid (O. Koroleva)
Social Science
- Analyzing the Legacy of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (L. Alpert)
- Balancing Economic Growth and Community (K. Theriault)
- Buddhism and Trading on the Silk Road (G. Shaw-Hawkins)
- Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road (M. Herrera)
- Buddhism Lesson (C. Caldwell)
- Buddhism’s Spread Along the Silk Road (C. Caldwell)
- Decoding the Silk Road Frescoes (A. Woods Chan)
- Economics of Globalization (E. Ennis)
- Life Along the Silk Road (H. Espada)
- Modern Marco Polo: Stopping at McDonalds along the Way? (S. Maxin)
- Source Analysis of Divination of Maheśvara & playing to learn (B. Thomas)
- Source Analysis of Divination of Maheśvara & playing to learn Slide Deck
- Video: How to throw Pasaka Dice
- Threads of the Silk Road; An Introduction to Buddhism (L. Alpert)
- Women in Ancient and Modern China (I. Morales)
- World History – Religion (M. O.Malley)
Upcoming Events
K-12 Teachers Summer Institute on China - watch for upcoming programs.