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- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students read about and research the symbols of Buddhism and discuss the aspects of this religions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students compare and contrast beliefs of the Hindu and Buddhist religions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students learn Buddhism adapted to the indigenous religions of the countries into which it was introduced. They learn that sculptures of Buddha connect with the stories of the historic Buddha. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students are introduced to the study of Buddhism in Global Studies, the teacher blindfold's a student and have the student walk through classroom maze in search of a particular object. They are introduced to the text Siddhartha in English class, students write a journal entry about a time student was lost. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students are able to take information obtained from the various readings of primary and secondary sources and classroom discussions directed by the instructor and relate it to the student's curretn real life experiences. They connect the history of the readings with life experiences (e.g., very long walks, camping, hunger, thirst and the feat of being vulnerable among people they do not know) they have sensed! Full Review »
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