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High School Arts & Letters
- Jessica Klonsky – 11th Grade “Pre-Colonial Mesoamerican Writing” (Latino and Latin American Literature)
- Unit Information (Word)
- Is This Writing? (PPT)
- Pre-colonial Mesoamerican Writing Systems (PPT)
- Anna Reed, “Alebrijes in Oaxaca”
- “Alebrije presentation ideas” (Word)
- “Alebrijes in Oaxaca” (Word)
- “Alebrijes Folk Art” (PPT)
High School Spanish
- John Carolan – “La Cultura de Oaxaca” – Listening and Writing Lesson Plan
- Lesson Plan Information (Word)
- La Cultura de Oaxaca – Video (Youtube)
- Kathleen Melville – 9th Grade Spanish 1 – “Excavating and Weaving — Exploring Culture and Cultural Identity”
- Lindsay Mitchell – Spanish 4 & 5 – “Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano”
- Unit Information (Word)
- Mitos escritos (Word)
- Short myth handout (Word)
- Donají leyenda (Word)
- Donají handout (Word)
- Myths and Legends sorting activity for smartboard (Word)
- Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano (PPT)
- Chatino interview – Video (WMV)
High School Social Studies
- Casey Asato – “Indigenous Peoples: Library Quest Project”
- Sub-Saharan Africa & Latin America: Indigenous Peoples Project (Word)
- Library Quest (1st step to starting the project) (Word)
- Ana Flores, Sharing Your Stories
- Curricular Unit Proposal (Word)
- “Sharing Your Stories” (PPT)
- “Personal Values” (English-Spanish-Nahuatl) (Word)
- Greg Gidden and Josh Fitzgerald – “Mesolore in the Classroom Mixtec Propaganda”
- Unit Information (Word)
- Sources and Vocabulary (Word)
- Exercises and Worksheets (Word)
- Presentation (PPT)
- Alyson LeBlanc
- “Deluge Myths” (Word)
- Carolina Rubio,
- Proposal for “Mesoamerican Ways of Knowing” (Word)
High School Science
- Nancy Tran Le – “Cochineal Dye Chemistry”
High School/Middle School Art
- Patricia Bartels – 9th Grade Interdisciplinary Exploration – Mesoamerican Mask Making 9 Day Unit
- Unit Information (Word)
- Lesson Plan (PPT)
- Kathy Kowalczyk and Dean Stadel Grades 4 – 9 “Visual Arts in Clay and Ceramics: With and Emphasis on Animal Motifs and Functional Animal Forms”
- Jessica Voigt – “Oaxacan Wood Carving”
- Unit Information (Word)
- Why Make Art? (PPT)
- Mesoamerican Astrology (MOV)
- Envisioning the Nahual (MOV)
Middle School Language Arts/Social Studies/Science
- Debbie Frankel – 6th Grade – “The Science of Cacao”
- Cacao Unit Information (Word)
- The Legend of the Cacao (Word)
- Oaxaca – Cacao Presentation (PPT)
Elementary School Art
- Sonia Rodríguez – “The Nagual in Mexican Art”
- Unit Information (PDF)
- Matching Activity Cards (PDF)
- 3rd Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
- 4th Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
- 5th Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
- Nagual (PPT)
- Maureen Yoder – 3rd and 4th Grade – “Frida and Diego Go to Oaxaca” and Ethnobotanical Art Lessons
- Unit Information (Word)
- “Frida and Diego go to Oaxaca” (PPT)
- Frida Kahlo (GIF)
- Diego Rivera (GIF)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 1: Maize Codex (Word)
- Maize Worksheet – Side 1 (GIF)
- Maize Worksheet – Side 2 (GIF)
- Maize Codex – Finished example (JPEG)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 2: Agave Radial Symmetry (Word)
- Agave Radial Symmetry (GIF)
- Agave Radial Symmetry – Finished example (JPEG)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 3: Cacao Currency (Word)
- Cacao Currency Worksheet (GIF)
- Cacao Currency Wallet – Finished Example (JPEG)
- Ethnobotanical MEC Year Long Multicultural Unit (PPT)
- Ethnobotanical Lessons (PPT)
- Ethnobotanical Lessons Student Examples (PPT)
Elementary School Reading, Writing and Art
- Sonia Rodríguez and Claudia Chávez – “Mesoamerican Folklore: Naguales Animal Spirits”
- Envisioning Naguales (PPT)
- Interview with Xedex Olivas – Nagual Animal Spirits (Youtube)
- Mayan Dance with Nagual Masks (Youtube)
- Paulina Russell Silva and Ruth Hughes – “Becoming Me” Using Children’s Literature – Oaxaca, Mexico
- Unit Information (Word)
- Lesson Plan (Word)
ESOL/ESL/ELL/EFL (Various Levels)
- Deborah Brady – ESL grade 4+, intermediate level – “Mesoamerican Foods”
- Unit Information (Word)
- Mesoamerican Legend About Corn (Word)
- My Favorite Foods (Word)
- Slide Show (PDF)
- Delisa Brown-Guc – 9th Grade English Language Learners (ELL)
- Unit Information (Word)
- Ethnobotanical Garden (PDF)
- Oaxaca (PPT)
- Genetically Modified Corn – a Debate (PPT)
- Susannah Courand – ESL Biology 1 – “Maize: Science Impacting Culture From Early Mesoamerica to Modern Day”
- Unit information (Word)
- Rubric for Brochures (Word)
- Timeline Sorting Activity (Word)
- Maize ESL Biology 1 (PPT)
- Jennifer May – High School ELL “Cooking demonstration” lesson plan – Intermediate
- Unit Information (Word)
- Recipe Worksheet (Word)
- Presentation Rubric (Word)
- Cooking Show Rubric (Word)
- “Dark Chocolate Chicken Mole Tamales” Example Cooking Show Video w/ Jennifer May (Youtube)