ASIA PROJECT- Integrating Asia into the curriculum

http://mnyildiz.googlepages.com/asia

Asia Society

Asia Society Resources:
Asia Society’s institutional website is www.asiasociety.org Below are examples of sub-sites where relevant information can be found.

A. Arts and Cultural Materials On www.asiasociety.org/arts/

1. On www.asiasocietymuseum.org :http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/buddhist_trade/traderoutes_overland.html An introduction to religion and the Silk Road through art; includes images, brief essays and maps

2. 2003 Exhibition “Monks and Merchants”:
http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/monksandmerchants/index.html
Themes: horses and travel: http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/monksandmerchants/horses.htm

B. On www.AsiaSource.org , Asia Society’s current events resource, with a daily news round-up, interviews and special reports: Mostly contemporary material that can help students make the connection between the ancient Silk Road and current events, but some historical available here as well

1. Asia Today: News (contemporary): http://www.asiasource.org/news/ for example: Link to article on reopening of ancient Silk Road route in the Himalayas between China and India: http://www.independent.co.uk/

2. Country Profiles: Central Asia Region (contemporary)
http://www.asiasource.org/profiles/ap_mp_02_centralasia.cfm

3. Special Reports: Arts of the Silk Roads (historical) http://asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=81368

4. Interviews: Religions of the Silk Road (historical)
http://www.asiasource.org/society/foltz.cfm

C. Asia Society’s Website for Teachers: www.AskAsia.org : Using Search Function, search under “Silk Road”—34 results, including 10 Lesson Plans, 9 Essays, 1 Map, 14 Images, can be filtered by era, region and student age band, as well
1. Sample Essay (Social Studies) “Silk Road: An Introduction to Trade”
2. Sample Lesson Plan (Religion/Philosophy): “The Golden Rule of Reciprocity”
3. Sample Map: Silk Road Map
4. Sample Image “Dancing Central Asian Figure” and information about it
5. Min-site: http://www.askasia.org/features/arts/silkroads/index.htm This site is specially for primary and secondary schools and has material on geography, trade, art, music, history and belief systems. It is linked to the Monks and Merchants exhibition website, http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/monksandmerchants/index.html as well.

Resources- Webpages

History of Spices

http://www.astaspice.org/history/frame_history.htm

http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?ID=10110&StatusCD=P


Spice EnSPICElopedia

http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?ID=8291

http://www.astaspice.org/spice/frame_spice.htm

List of Spices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herbs_and_spices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice

Resources- Books

The First Book of Spices by Francine Klagsbrun- Franklin Watts, Inc. NY. 1968

Salt Sugar and Spice Walter Buehr- William Morrow and Company, NY. 1969

The Magic of Spices by Joseph Dreany- G.. Putnam's Sons, NY. 1961

And Everhing Nice The Story of Sugar, Spice and Flavoring by Elisabeth K. Coper, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. NY, 1966

MUSLIM SCIENTISTS AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/

Who Wants to Know Everything about Asia?

see the link for slides. http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/yildizm/AsiaM.ppt

Maps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_route


http://www.actionquiz.com/index.html
http://www.triviaplaza.com/
http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/mapquiz/menu/menu.htm
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/mapquiz/sasia/ssmenu.htm
http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/asia3.html
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies

Children’s Books

List of books for children on Asia/ Silk Road/ Spice Route


http://www.asiastore.org/books-children-s.html

NJ Standards

NJ.ART.3-4.1.5.B.2
...Explain works of art from various world cultures.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.3.C.1
...Demonstrate knowledge of ancient river valley civilizations, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, China, and the civilizations of Africa.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.3.D.2
...Analyze the development of trade, arts, belief systems, and culture in China’s
NJ.SS.7-8.6.4.C.3
...Trace the routes of the early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.4.D.1
...Trace the routes of the early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.6.F.3
...Identify basic terms associated with international trade (e.g., imports, exports, quotas, embargoes, tariffs, and free trade).
NJ.SS.7-8.6.7.D.4
...Explain primary geographic causes for world trade.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.7.E.3
...Describe world patterns of resource distribution and utilization, and discuss the management and use of renewable and non-renewable resources.
NJ.SS.9-12.6.3.E.3
...Discuss the growth of trade, urbanization, and territorial and cultural expansion.
NJ.SS.9-12.6.8
STANDARD: (SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY) ALL STUDENTS WILL ACQUIRE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DIVERSE SOCIETIES AND THEIR CULTURES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN LOCAL, REGIONAL AND WORLD CONTEXTS.
NJ.SS.k-12.6.3
STANDARD: (WORLD HISTORY) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FORCES, GEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND CULTURE ON THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM PRE-HISTORY TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
NJ.SS.K-2.6.6.C.1
...Understand that in an exchange people trade goods and services for other goods and services or for money and that they expect to benefit from the exchange.

WebQuests

http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/exhome.htm

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/exploration.html

http://www.42explore2.com/explorers.htm

http://www.blaine.k12.wa.us/bes/class/dennison/webquest/spices.htm

http://www.esu8.org/~oneill/km/explorers.htm

http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/Class/hinshaw/socst/explorer/spice.htm

http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/slezak/explorerindex.html

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/newworld/

http://www.spiceadvice.com/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.html

http://www.kathimitchell.com/quests.htm

http://www.kathimitchell.com/explorer.htm

http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/newsletter.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/

Educational Resources

Educational Websites:

British Library: International Dunhuang Project http://idp.bl.uk/

British Museum:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/silkroad/main.html

China the Beautiful:
http://www.chinapage.com/silkroad.html

Silk Road Project
http://www.silkroadproject.org/about/contact.html

Silk Road Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

University of Washington, Simpson Center for the Humanities
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/ Includes an on-line exhibition (http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml , exquisite if a little confusing), themes of Cities and Architecture, Traditional Culture (gers, food, weddings, religions, dwellings, oral epics), Eurasian Geography, illustrated with excellent photographic materials, Interactive Maps Exercises section, a large selection of historical documents in translation, learning guides. Multimedia, includes video footage.

University of California Berkeley
http://www.ecai.org/silkroad/ Silk Road Atlas. Interactive maps for Land, Empires, Routes and Travel. Very interesting photographs, including a large set by Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii, one of the preeminent scholars of Muslims in China, taken in Western China and along the Chinese-Pakistani border

University of California Irvine:
http://www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html#10

National Geographic:
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/silk.html
This page has links to other National Geographic resources for such important terms as spices and key religions, and also to a 3-part feature on Marco Polo