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High School Art
- Nicole Caracciolo
- Galleries
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 1 of 3, “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth: Visual Communication in Ancient Mesoamerica”
- “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth” (PPT)
- Codex Art Project by Pearl Lau (link)
- Popol Vuh codex project by teacher Mike Reed’s students (link)
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 2 of 3, “Print as Protest”
- “Print as Protest” (PDF)
- “Print as Protest” (PPT)
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 3 of 3, “Oaxacan Street Art: Modern Visual Communication”
- “Oaxacan Street Art” (PPT)
- “Street Art” (PDF)
- Deborah Genovese
- Deborah Strother and Christy Gill, “Stories in Clay: Oaxacan Ceramic Folk Art”
- Lesson Plan (Word)
- Lesson Plan – EdSite Format (Word)
- Stories in Clay (PPTX, M4V)
- Videos of Oaxacan Ceramic Artist at Work: 1, 2 (AVI)
- Video of Pasatono, Oaxacan Musicians (AVI)
- Interview on Folk Legends (MP3)
High School Spanish
- Lila Downs
- “Cumbia del Mole” (song) (2009)
- Lynn Fernandez, Lesson 1 of 2, “Introduction to Mesoamerica”
- Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
- Mesoamerica Notebook (PDF)
- Map and Timeline (PDF)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
- ¿Qué hay de comer? (PPT, PDF)
- El calendario mesoamericano (PDF)
- Codex Selden pages with questions (PDF)
- Lynn Fernandez, Lesson 2 of 2, “Juego de Pelota”
- Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
- Juego de Pelota Notebook (PDF)
- Juego de Pelota (PDF)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
- Juego Game Cards (PDF)
- Codex Example (PDF)
- Laura Hovey Ozuna and Lisa Sragovicz, ”Mi vida en México prehispánico”
- Unit Plan (Word)
- Brainstorming Worksheet (Word)
- Internet Investigation (Word)
- Proyectos estudiantiles (Word)
- Images (ZIP)
- Elise Weisenbach
- “Las Artes de Mexico: The Virgin of Guadalupe” (Word)
- “The Mesoamerican Ballgame” (Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox)
High School Social Studies
- Emily Ekstrand, Codex History Lesson
- Lesson Plans (Word)
- Codex Assignment (Word)
- Mixtec Codex Elements (Word)
- Student Work Sample (PDF)
- Memry Roessler
- A proposal for “A Course on Museums” (Word)
- Irma Vega, “Health and Illness in Mesoamerica: Then & Now”
- Lesson Plan (Word)
- Lesson 1 Materials
- Joie Davidow – “Magic and Medicine” (PDF)
- Gist Summary (Word)
- Guiding Questions (Word)
- Lesson 2 Materials
- An Aztec Herbal (PDF)
- Vocabulary Companion to An Aztec Herbal (Word)
- Excerpts from Groark (Word)
- Tonalli, Midwife & Mother (PDF)
- White Willow (PDF)
- Zoapatle (PDF)
- Susto Excerpt (Word)
- Codex Mendoza Image (PPT)
- Plants Handout (Word)
- Answers to Plant Handout (Word)
- Remedies Employed by Aztecs Table (Word)
- Template for Entrance – Exit Slip (Word)
- Author Says I Say (PDF)
- Kim Young, “Complicating Conquest”
- GeoON (WMV)
- Religion (WMV)
- Politics (WMV)
- Architecture (WMV)
High School Science
- Stephanie Tietz, “Incorporating Mesoamerican Content Into the Biology Curriculum”
High School / Middle School Art
- Michael Guenza, “Modes of Knowing, Means of Showing: Narrative Iconography in Ancient and Modern Times”
- Lesson Plan (Word)
- Lesson Overview (PPT)
- Image Examples
- Celeste LeTard Williams
- “Lotería”
- “My Mayan Codex”
Middle School Language Arts / Social Studies
- Pam Rogers, Stephanie Baker, and Sandra Kowalczyk
- “Becoming Naomi León” (Link)
- Jake Sproull
- “Maize” (Word)
Elementary School Social Studies
- Brady Rochford
- “Globalization” (Word)
Elementary School Spanish
- Stephanie Baker
- “Alebrijes in Spanish” (YouTube)
- “Alebrijes in English” (YouTube)
- Photostory Program downloads (for students wishing to make photostories such as this), for Windows, for Macs
Elementary School Art
- Christy Gill
- “Alebrijes” (Word)
- Roxann Hunsaker
- “Mesoamerican Art” (PPT)
ESOL/ESL (Any Level)
- Kib Hunt
Other Resources
- SOPHIA – Free “social teaching” website