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A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Students analyze Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" War Address. Students read the original first typed draft of the speech, and compare handwritten changes with the original to determine whether the changes strengthened or weakened...
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East Asia: Current Events
Ninth graders read and evaluate current events of East Asia. They select an article, read and summarize the article and identify the key people, places, dates, and events in the article. As they summarize, they write a personal...
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Uchiwa Lesson Plan
Learners view images from Japan's Summer Festival celebration. They create a uchiwa fan to use while doing the Kuma River Dance.
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Hachimaki/Shibori Lesson Plan
Sixth graders are introduced to the technique of Arashi Shibori and its history. In groups, they discover how to perform this process and examine how to do hachimaki. To end the lesson, they make their own hachimaki to wear and share it...
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The Medium And The Message
Students compare and contrast Buddhist sculpture in varying materials through in-class discussions and small cooperative learning groups. This activity includes possible activity extensions.
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Learning About Japan Through Its Kites--Intermediate
Students read various readings on two kit making sessions. They locate places and human spatial patterns using a map. Students design in two dimensions using line to create details.
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Bodhidharma/Daruma Doll Lesson
Learners investigate the historical Bodhidharma and focus upon the founding of Buddhism in China. They create two-dimensional Daruma dolls and define the term of enlightenment using simple language. Students read about the legend while...
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Connecting Math to Our Lives
Students participate in an online interactive forum to explore how math is used in their families and communities. They design games to submit to other students online, and identify and organize data to solve the problems from other...
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Nationalism and Conflict-Two Fronts, Two Perspectives!
Learners examine the major conflicts of the 20th century. After watching a video, they discuss the various types of technology and how they were used in World War I. They watch excerpts from films covering different wars and view them...
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What Masks Reveal
Pupils explore the cultural significance of masks by investigating the role they play in ceremonies and on special occasions in societies from widely separated regions of the world.
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Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I
Students complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio...
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Banpo Village: Gone, But Not Forgotten
Sixth graders plan a trip to China and prepare yourself for the Banpo excavation site competition by studying prehistoric and ancient Chinese history.
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Inventing the Future
Students explore the impact of technology on the world by researching current or past scientific advancements, then developing a new invention or technology for the next millennium.
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NCTA Lesson Plan on Korea
Students are introduced to the unique aspects of the Korean culture. Using the websites included in the lesson plan they research categories of subjects that are related to the culture.
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Conversing with an Object
Students analyze museum artifacts and create conversations between these inanimate objects using prior historical knowledge. In this museum artifact lesson, students create theoretical dialogue between historical artifacts in order to...
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Asia Society: More Than Meets the Eye: Japanese Art
This tour of Japanese art is almost as good as being there in person. It offers an extensive introduction and virtual gallery.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Japanese Art and Architecture
This Ibiblio.org site is a thorough description of Japanese art and architecture. There are no pictures, but the writing makes up for this in its extensive history and descriptions.
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Pacific Asia Museum: Animals in Japanese Art
A rich-media site that explores animals, both real and imaginary, as a central theme in Japanese paintings and prints. Learn about the traditions and techniques of Japanese painting and prints and see examples of work created by Japanese...
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Art Lex: History of Japanese Art
A very general survey of the history of Japanese art. Click on any of the time periods to learn more specific information about each one. Includes several examples; click on the title of each work to enlarge the image and to learn more.
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The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
This site contains examples of Japanese art. It is full of colorful images, and an explanation of the pieces.
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Tokugawa Art Museum
The home page for the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya. There are many examples of Japanese art from many cultures and periods in Japan's history.
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Euronet: Japanese Art and Western Influence
This Euronet offers general information about Japanese art and accompanying photos can be found here. Maneuvering around this site is an easy task.
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Kitsune Japanese Antiques
Japanese art and antiques are well represented throughout this site. Try out the Japanese art glossary with pictures and detailed information covering a wide range of Japanese handicrafts and subjects such as mythology and symbolism.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History: Japan: a.d. 500 1000
Interactive timeline allows visitors to view representative works of Japanese art in a segmented chronology that extends from AD 500 to 1000. Includes examples from different periods in Japanese history and from all geographical regions....
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