Teaching East Asia:
Lesson Plans for Middle School Teachers
Vol. II (1997)


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These lesson plans were developed by middle level teachers who participated in EASC's summer workshop on Teaching East Asia.

List of Partipants.

 

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Indiana University

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Theme A: People, Places & Environment

 

Capital Connections

Mapping the World

China on a Globe

EAST BRIEF: Bring Reality into Effective Focus

Population and Area Comparison

Physical Geography of East Asia

Geography of Japan

World at Your Fingertips: Cartographic Skills

 

Theme B: Technology, Production, Distribution & Consumption

 

East Asian Trading Ships

Agriculture in East Asia

Test: Lady Sarashina's Diary

East Asia: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Economic Development and Air Pollution

How East Asia Became an Economic Power

 

Theme C: Cultures, Continuity & Change

 

Flavors of Japan

Chinese Culture Through Cinderella

Futuring

 

Theme D: Aesthetics, Celebrations & Values

Chinese Literature

Creating a Japanese Rock Garden

Cooperative Kite-Making

 

Theme E: Instructions, Power and Government

Communes in Communist China

Tiananmen Square Protest

 

Theme F: United States and Global Connections

Korean Peninsula and Indiana 

 


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