Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to Asia
There are 4 items in this list. Our Arts, Our Land: A Young Reader's Guide to Selected Folk Arts of Hawaii
by Michael Schuster, Carl Hefner, J.W. Junker http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ehefner/pages/index.htm
Music, photographs, and interviews of traditional master artists from Hawaii designed as an introduction to folk arts for young people. The audio recordings were originally aired on Hawaii Public Radio as part of the "Pacific Visions" radio series. Hawaiian traditional arts represented include chant, lauhala weaving, fishnet knotting, quilting, slack key and steel guitar music, medicinal herbs, gourd carving, and hula ki'i puppetry. Also included are practitioners of Chinese Opera, Okinawan koten music and dance, Filipino dance, Korean pansori singing, and Japanese Mingei pottery. A folk arts quiz is provided for students.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Audio recordings; Activities |
Language: English; Hawaiian |
Subjects: Decorative arts; Asian Americans; Crafts; Basket making; Folk artists; Folk art; Fishing nets; Pottery; Weaving; Music; Quilting; Puppets; Traditional medicine; Chinese Americans; Hawaiians; Japanese Americans; Maritime culture; Korean Americans; Chinese Opera; Hawaii--Social life and customs; Needlework
Geographic locations: Hawaii; East Asia; Asia |
Sponsoring Organization: Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 250 South Hotel Street, 2nd floor Honolulu HI 96813
(808) 586-0300 http://hawaii.gov/sfca/
Silk Road Encounters Education Kit
by Silk Road Project http://www.silkroadproject.org/Education/Resources/SilkRoadEncounters/tabid/339/Default.aspx
Teacher's guide (48 p. PDF) and sourcebook (48 p. PDF) that explore the diverse yet interrelated topics of trade, art, music, religion, history, and geography along the Silk Road to supplement classroom materials for students from elementary through high school. The teacher's guide has six lesson plans: 1) The Silk Roads Big Map; 2) Creating a Three-Dimensional Timeline; 3) Trading in the Silk Road Cities; 4) Belief Systems of the Silk Road; 5) Musical Innovation along the Silk Roads; and 6) Treasures of the Silk Roads.) Activities tiered for different educational levels accompany the lessons. A sourcebook provides background information for the lessons on the geography, history, belief systems, arts, music, and the travel of ideas and techniques along the Silk Road.
Sponsoring Organization: Silk Road Project 20 Westminster Street Providence RI 02903
(401) 427-6980 http://www.silkroadproject.org/tabid/36/default.aspx
At Home Away From Home: Tibetan Culture in Exile
by Museum of International Folk Art http://moifa.org/eventsedu/education/hah_tibet/index.html
Education guide designed for teachers to use with grades K-12, focusing on themes of the exhibition, "At Home Away from Home: Tibetan Culture in Exile," on display at the Museum of International Folk Art in 1999. The curriculum materials in the guide focus on the history and culture of Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and the exile of Tibetans from their homeland, especially to India and New Mexico. Activities and art projects feature Kalachakara sand mandalas, thangka paintings (religious scroll paintings on cotton), and the making of prayer flags. The content in this education guide is correlated to the New Mexico State Art and Social Studies Content Standards.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Prayer flags; Tibetan Americans; Tibet--Social life and customs; Mandala (Buddhism); Scrolls; Folk art
Geographic locations: Tibet; South Asia; New Mexico; India; Asia |
Sponsoring Organization: Museum of International Folk Art PO Box 2087 Santa Fe NM 87504-2087
(505) 476-1200 http://www.moifa.org/
Collections Seldom Seen
by Museum of International Folk Art http://www.moifa.org/eventsedu/education/seldomseen/cssintrocur.html
Curriculum guide that grew out of an exhibition, "Collections Seldom Seen," at the Museum of International Folk Art which brought together objects from the permanent collections chosen by several museum curators. The guide includes cultural and historical background on the chosen objects organized by geographic focus (Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe) and textile arts in general, plus two lesson plans with student activities, based on New Mexico state standards. The lesson plans are "How to Make a Japanese Scroll" and "Print Making," based on woodblock printing traditions used in the making of Brazilian literatura de cordel. The guide also highlights the role of the curator in the development of museum exhibitions.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies |
Resource Type: Activities; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Decorative arts; Jewelry; Folk art; Scrolls; Museums--Curatorship; Clothing and dress; Wood-engraving; Textile fabrics; Pottery; Costume; Chapbooks, Brazilian
Geographic locations: United States; Philippines; Morocco; Mexico; Japan; Europe; Cameroon; Brazil; Bolivia; Austria; Asia |
Sponsoring Organization: Museum of International Folk Art PO Box 2087 Santa Fe NM 87504-2087
(505) 476-1200 http://www.moifa.org/
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