Lesson Plans on East Asia
For Secondary Level

 

Geography

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

History

• Asia by Era - Resources [AFE]
  Peruse by time period, region, or topic (e.g., “Confucius”) to find lesson plans

CHINA specific

• Song Dynasty China: The Most Advanced Society in 1000 CE [AFE]
  See specifically Lesson Plans.

• The Mongols in World History [AFE]
  See specifically 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

• The Chinese Cosmos: Understanding Religion in Last Imperial China, 1644-1911 [AFE]
  See specifically Class Materials.

• Asia by Era - Resources [AFE]:
  • Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Buddhism
  • Shinto

Art

• Asia in Art – Resources [AFE]
  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 [University of Indiana]

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

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

• Asian/Pacific American Library Association – Literature Awards [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 Materials [University of Pittsburgh]

• Ohio State University - NCTA Site
  The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia site at Ohio State has lesson plans cross-listed by country and subject.

• Teaching Modules [University of Tennessee Chattanooga – Asia Program]

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

• New York Times – Lesson Plans

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