Lesson Plans on East Asia
For Secondary Level

 

Geography

• East Asia in Geographic Perspective
  Every section or topic has lesson plans

History

• Timeline of Asia in World History [AFE]

• Peruse by time period or topic (e.g., “Confucius”) to find lesson plans

• Use "Search" at the top of this page— for example enter "Lesson Plans" and click on "GO"

CHINA specific

• The Song Dynasty in China: China in the Year 1000, the Most Advanced Society in the World [AFE]

• Lesson Plans

• The Mongols in World History [AFE]

• Class Materials

• Recording the Grandeur of the Qing Dynasty [AFE]

• Teachers Guide and Lesson Plans

• China and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is ‘Modern’? [AFE]

  • Teachers Guide and Lesson Plans

  • Class Readings and Additional Lesson Play: “Bound by a Sliver Chain”

JAPAN specific

• Teaching Japan in World History: [Program on Teaching East Asia (TEA), University of Colorado)

  • Early Japan:

    • The Kentōshi: Japanese Interactions with East Asia, 538-794 CE

    • Building Tōdai-ji

  • Medieval Japan: History and Memory: The Mongol Invasions of Japan

  • Tokugawa Japan: More to a Closed Door than Meets the Eye: Early Modern Japanese Foreign

  • Meiji Japan: Meiji Era — Change or Continuity?

  • Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources
    Includes 7 lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s modernization and international expansion from the 1880s through the 1920s, a time span overlapping the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods.

  • Japan at War: Above and Below the Mushroom Cloud: Perspectives on the Atomic Bombings

Religions

• Living in the Chinese Cosmos: Understanding Religion in Last Imperial China, 1644-1911 [AFE]

• Class Materials

• Other materials on the Asia in World History Timeline [AFE]:

  • Confucianism

  • Daoism

  • Buddhism

  • Shinto

Art

• Online Museum EDUCATIONAL Resources in Asian Art [OMuERAA]
  Lessons for all educational levels
  Search by art form, country, time period, religion or by “featured topic”
  

Literature

• Teaching East Asian Literature – Workshop [University of Indiana]

  • Lesson Plans on works of East Asia Literature

  • Freeman Awards and Recommended Titles in Children’s and Young Adult Literature – on East and Southeast Asia [NCTA]

• South Asia Book Award – Highlighting Outstanding Literature for Children and Teens [SABA]

• Asian/Pacific Award for Literature [APALA] – see Children’s and Young Adult categories

• Texts and Contexts: Teaching Japan through Children’s Literature [Program on Teaching East Asia (TEA), University of Colorado]

OTHER SOURCES

• East Asia Gateway for Linking Educators/ EAGLE – Lesson Plans [U of Pittsburgh)

• National Consortium for Teaching about Asia [NCTA] – State Sites
  Many seminar and state partner sites of NCTA offer lesson plans developed by teachers in their programs. Click on your state – and then on the ULR for your state site at the top of the page—to see what the state may offer. (Kansas, for example offers many lesson plans.) See in particular the Ohio NCTA site at OSU which has lesson plans cross-listed by country and subject.

• Teaching Modules [U of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Center]

• Education about Asia – Online Archives [Association for Asian Studies]
  This excellent journal has an online archive offering many lesson plans on various topics.

Search for Asia related lessons on these excellent sites:

• New York Times – Lesson Plans

• EDSITEment – Lesson Plans [National Endowment for the Humanities]