High School Art
- Nicole Caracciolo
- Galleries
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 1 of 3, “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth: Visual Communication in Ancient Mesoamerica”
- “Codices” (PDF)
- “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth” (PPT) (downloads automatically; see your downloads folder)
- Examples of student work from Angela Guy’s Art Class (a link to another page)
- Codex Art Project by Pearl Lau (a link to another page)
- Popol Vuh codex project by teacher Mike Reed’s students (a link to another page; this is not from our group, but worth a peek)
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 2 of 3, “Print as Protest”
- “Print as Protest” (PPT) (an automatic download; check your downloads folder)
- “Print as Protest” (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy, Lesson 3 of 3, “Oaxacan Street Art: Modern Visual Communication”
- “Oaxacan Street Art” (PPTX) (an automatic download)
- “Street Art” (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Deborah Strother and Christy Gill, “Stories in Clay: Oaxacan Ceramic Folk Art”
- Lesson Plan (DOC) (an automatic download)
- Lesson Plan – EdSite Format (DOC) (an automatic download)
- Stories in Clay (PPTX, M4V) (automatic downloads)
- Videos of Oaxacan Ceramic Artist at Work: 1, 2 (AVI)
- Video of Pasatono, Oaxacan Musicians (AVI, 2 minutes)
- Interview on Folk Legends (MP3, 41 minutes)
- Deborah Genovese, “Paper Making“
High School Spanish
- Lila Downs, “Cumbia del Mole” (song)
- Lynn Fernandez, Lesson 1 of 2, “Introduction to Mesoamerica”
- Lesson Plan (DOC, PDF) (automatic downloads; check your downloads folder)
- Mesoamerica Notebook (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Map and Timeline (PDF) (these open in another window)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF) (PPT is an automatic download; PDF opens in another window)
- ¿Qué hay de comer? (PPT, PDF) (PPT is an automatic download; PDF opens in another window)
- El calendario mesoamericano (PPT, PDF) (PPT is an automatic download; PDF opens in another window)
- Codex Selden pages with questions (PDF) (opens in a new window)
- Lynn Fernandez, Lesson 2 of 2, “Juego de Pelota”
- Lesson Plan (DOC, PDF)
- Juego de Pelota Notebook (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Juego de Pelota (PPT, PDF) (PPT is an automatic download; PDF opens in another window)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF) (PPT is an automatic download; PDF opens in another window)
- Juego Game Cards (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Codex Example (PDF) (opens in another window)
- Laura Hovey Ozuna and Lisa Sragovicz, ”Mi vida en México prehispánico”
- Unit Plan (DOC) (all these docs are automatic downloads; check your downloads folder)
- Brainstorming Worksheet (DOC)
- Internet Investigation (DOC)
- Proyectos estudiantiles (DOC)
- Images (ZIP)
- Elise Weisenbach, “Las Artes de Mexico: The Virgin of Guadalupe” (DOC)
- Elise Weisenbach, “The Mesoamerican Ballgame” (Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox)
High School Social Studies
- Emily Ekstrand, Codex History Lesson
- Lesson Plans (DOC; will download automatically)
- Codex Assignment (DOC; will download automatically)
- Mixtec Codex Elements (DOC; will download automatically)
- Student Work Sample (PDF; will open in browser window)
- Irma Vega, “Health and Illness in Mesoamerica: Then & Now”
- Lesson Plan (DOC) (these are all automatic downloads; see downloads folder)
- Lesson 1 Materials
- Joie Davidow – “Magic and Medicine” (PDF)
- Gist Summary (DOC)
- Guiding Questions (DOC)
- Lesson 2 Materials
- An Aztec Herbal (PDF)
- Vocabulary Companion to An Aztec Herbal (DOC)
- Excerpts from Groark (DOC)
- Tonalli, Midwife & Mother (PDF)
- White Willow (PDF)
- Zoapatle (PDF)
- Susto Excerpt (DOC)
- Codex Mendoza Image (PPT)
- Plants Handout (DOC)
- Answers to Plant Handout (DOCX)
- Remedies Employed by Aztecs Table (DOC)
- Template for Entrance – Exit Slip (DOC)
- Author Says I Say (PDF)
- Kim Young, “Complicating Conquest”
- “Complicating Conquest” (DOC) (these are automatic downloads from a dropbox)
- LCI (Powerpoint; most useful link)
- Debrief (Powerpoint)
- GeoON (Windows Media Video)
- Religion (Windows Media Video)
- Politics (Windows Media Video)
- Architecture (Windows Media Video)
- Memry Roessler, a proposal for a course on museums
High School Film
Scott Eberhardt, “New Mexican Cinema” (DOCX file will download automatically upon clicking the link)
High School Science
- Stephanie Tietz, “Incorporating Mesoamerican Content Into the Biology Curriculum”
- Lesson Plans (DOC) (these are automatic downloads; check your downloads folder)
- “Artificial Selection: The Journey from Teosinte to Maize” (PPTX)
- “Cochineal: The Red Gold of the Mixtec” (PPTX)
High School / Middle School Art
- Stephanie Wood and Yasmín Acosta-Myers, “Amate Painting Interactive: An Artistic Rendering of Community Life in a Nahua Community in the State of Guerrero.”
- Michael Guenza, “Modes of Knowing, Means of Showing: Narrative Iconography in Ancient and Modern Times”
- Celeste LeTard Williams, “Lotería”
Middle School Language Arts / Social Studies
- Pam Rogers, Stephanie Baker, and Sandra Kowalczyk, “Becoming Naomi León” (links to another window)
- Jake Sproull, “Maize” (DOC)
Elementary School Social Studies
- Brady Rochford, “Globalization“
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” (DOC)
- Roxann Hunsaker, “Mesoamerican Art” (PPT)
ESOL/ESL (Any Level)
- Kib Hunt, “Connections / Conexiones” (PPT)
Other Resources
- SOPHIA – Free “social teaching” website
