Our NCTA partners in Colorado, the Program for Teaching East Asia, have released a new collection of teacher-developed lessons—Cultural Encounters: Teaching Japan in World History. This online curriculum features seven secondary-level, historical-inquiry lessons on Japanese encounters with peoples, ideas, technologies, and institutions of Asia, Europe, and the United States from the Asuka/Nara periods to the present. Reconsidering historical narratives of Japan as “isolated,” the lessons feature, a variety of primary and secondary sources, address national content standards and Common Core skills, and contribute new topics and themes to supplement current world history textbooks’ coverage. This curriculum is made possible through funding to the Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA), from the United States-Japan Foundation.
http://www.colorado.edu/cas/tea/curriculum/ce/index.html
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