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Husser, Michael D. – 2000
This lesson plan on human rights uses the Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) methodology used in California to teach academic content to intermediate, threshold level limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. It sets forth three educational goals for students to reach; asks students to examine definitions of human rights…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civil Liberties, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
2000
The materials in this curriculum guide were designed to prepare teachers and students in grades 2-11 for the "Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace 1644-1911" exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California Education Department, to inform teachers and students about Imperial China, and to illuminate…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Art Education, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture
Marchick, Gloria Becker – 2002
The story of the conquest of Mexico, Mezo-America, and South America is widely known, and most of the known traditions are referred to as historical events and in the past tense. "El Dia de los Muertos," however, is a perfect example of the blending of two cultures or transculturation. To ignore what California's large Hispanic…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Art Activities, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 7.5 is delineated in the following manner: "Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of medieval Japan." Seventh-grade students describe the significance of Japan's proximity to China and Korea and the influence of these countries on Japan; discuss the reign of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Area Studies, Asian History, Curriculum Enrichment