High School Arts & Letters
- Jessica Klonsky – 11th Grade Pre-colonial Mesoamerican Writing (Latino and Latin American Literature)
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Is This Writing? (PPT)
- Pre-colonial Mesoamerican Writing Systems (PPT)
High School Spanish
- 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 (DOC)
- Mitos escritos (DOC)
- Short myth handout (DOC)
- Donají leyenda (DOC)
- Donají handout (DOC)
- Myths and Legends sorting activity for smartboard (DOC)
- Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano (PPT)
- Chatino interview – Video (WMV)
- John Carolan – La Cultura de Oaxaca – Listening and Writing Lesson Plan
- Lesson Plan Information (DOC)
- La Cultura de Oaxaca – Video (Youtube)
High School Social Studies
- Greg Glidden and Josh Fitzgerald – Mesolore in the Classroom Mixtec Propaganda
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Sources and Vocabulary (DOC)
- Exercises and Worksheets (DOC)
- Presentation (PPT)
- Casey Asato – Indigenous Peoples Library Quest Project
High School Science
- Nancy Tran Le – Cochineal Dye Chemistry
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Video Demonstration (M4V)
High School/Middle School Art
- Jessica Voigt – Oaxacan Wood Carving
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Why Make Art? (PPT)
- Mesoamerican Astrology (MOV)
- Envisioning the Nahual (MOV)
- Kathy Kowalczyk and Dean Stadel Grades 4 – 9 Visual Arts in Clay and Ceramics with emphasis on animal motifs and functional animal forms
- Patricia Bartels – 9th Grade Interdisciplinary Exploration – Mesoamerican Mask Making 9 Day Unit
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Lesson Plan (PPT)
Middle School Language Arts/Social Studies/Science
- Debbie Frankel – 6th Grade – The science of Cacao
- Cacao Unit Information (DOC)
- The Legend of the Cacao (DOC)
- Oaxaca – Cacao Presentation (PPT)
Elementary School Art
- Maureen Yoder – 3rd and 4th Grade – “Frida and Diego go to Oaxaca” and Ethnobotanical Art Lessons
- Unit Information (DOC)
- “Frida and Diego go to Oaxaca” (PPT)
- Frida Kalho (GIF)
- Diego Rivera (GIF)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 1: Maize Codex (DOC)
- Maize Worksheet – Side 1 (GIF)
- Maize Worksheet – Side 2 (GIF)
- Maize Codex – Finished example (JPEG)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 2: Agave Radial Symmetry (DOC)
- Agave Radial Symmetry (GIF)
- Agave Radial Symmetry – Finished example (JPEG)
- Ethnobotanical Lesson Plan 3: Cacao Currency (DOC)
- 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)
- Additional Lesson Plan – “Making a clay Alebrije: Step by step instructions and sketches” (PDF, PPT)
- Sonia Rodriguez – The Nagual in Mexican Art Unit
- Unit Information (PDF)
- Matching Activity Cards (PDF)
- 3rd Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
- 4th Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
- 5th Grade Lesson Plan (PDF)
Elementary School Reading, Writing and Art
- Paulina Russell Silva and Ruth Hughes – “Becoming Me” Using Children’s Literature – Oaxaca, Mexico
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Sonia Rodriguez & Claudia Chavez – Mesoamerican Folklore “Naguales Animal Spirit”
- Envisioning Naguales (PPT)
- Interview with Xedex Olivas – Nagual Animal Spirits (Youtube)
- Mayan Dance with Nagual Masks (Youtube)
ESOL/ESL/ELL/EFL (Various Levels)
- Deborah Brady – ESL grade 4+, intermediate level – Mesoamerican Foods
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Mesoamerican Legend About Corn (DOC)
- My Favorite Foods (DOC)
- Presentation (PPT)
- Delisa Brown-Guc – 9th Grade English Language Learners (ELL)
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Ethnobotanical Garden (PPT)
- 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 (DOC)
- Rubric for Brochures (DOC)
- Timeline Sorting Activity (DOC)
- Maize ESL Biology 1 (PPT)
- Jennifer May – High School ELL “Cooking demonstration” lesson plan – Intermediate
- Unit Information (DOC)
- Recipe Worksheet (DOC)
- Presentation Rubric (DOC)
- Cooking Show Rubric (DOC)
- “Dark Chocolate Chicken Mole Tamales” Example Cooking Show Video w/ Jennifer May (Youtube)