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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast famous Buddhist art as catalysts to the spread of Buddhism. They examine how the Buddhist art changes as the religion and its values spread. They generalize how ideas change and adapt as they travel around the world and make a presentation to the class. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students create Venn diagrams showing the differences and similarities between the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students respond to questions about Buddhism and Shinto beliefs. They review two reading selections and consider how religious beliefs are incorporated into Japanese culture. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students compare and contrast beliefs of the Hindu and Buddhist religions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study American transcendentalism through readings of Emerson and Thoreau. They make cognitive connections to the similarities to Buddhism in these writings. The connection of the literary movement is explained in the art of the time also. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students explore the principal religions which are alive today: Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and the Philosophies of the Chinese. They determine that there are scientific explanations for many of the subjects that dealt with sacred stories. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students use various primary and secondary sources to examine, interpret, and compare the main ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism. They compose a short history of Hinduism and Buddhism by writing sentences that link given terms to the next. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain how Buddhism spread and influenced peoples and their cultures in Ceylon, Central Asia, and East Asia. They write a fictional description of what it might have been like to be a person in one of these Southeast or Central Asian countries when Buddhism was becoming popular. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast the characteristics of Buddhism and Hinduism. Using the internet, they research the importance of religion to people in Nepal. To end the lesson, they compare their religion to either Buddhism or Hinduism and answer specific questions on the role of religion in the United States. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students engage in a variety of activities that investigates the religious and cultural practice of Buddhism. The emphasis is upon students comprehending the Eightfold Path of Buddhism. Full Review »

