This resource aims to: engage teachers and students in acquiring authentic and culturally respectful information; build factual knowledge about art, history, religion, cultural traditions, the role of the artist and the use of materials and techniques; support teachers and students in developing skills in intercultural understanding; and develop Asia literacy, the understanding and valuing of the wealth of artistic and cultural traditions of Asia, and the links we share across countries and cultures.

Students continue learning and researching their country's culture to complete a mandala. In their mandala, they will use the symbols, colors, landmarks, and history of their country's culture to complete a radial balanced mandala. A mandala symbolizes the wholeness and unity of the universe. Students will look at examples of rose glass windows, research hinduism and buddhism culture's to become inspired to create their own take on a mandala representing their own country's culture. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students are going to be redesigning the google logo to represent their country through the use of symbols, landmarks, colors, etc. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students are continuing learning about their country's culture and will continue researching their country's landmarks from the Country Traveling Research Question Handout from the previous lesson. In this lesson, students are going to choose one landmark and create a collage using the collage art making technique. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will embrace and become a person from their researched country. They will create a video production about where they are from in a poem outline to help guide the listeners into understanding the culture of their country. These videos will be presented to the class to see what different cultures are around the world. Students will write down facts they did not know or found interesting about all of the different countries researched in the class. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will each be exploring a different country and culture from around the world. In having students explore a country, they will be asked to become an expert. With being an expert about their country, students will be creating a traveling brochure. This traveling brochure will discover different aspects about their country. In general, students will research their country's population, culture, history, transportation, fashion, art, weather, food, religion, etc. The brochure will help show their understanding of their country and everything they have learned, plus more. Students will present their findings and share their knowledge to their peers every step of the unit. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

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