Cluster 1: Geography of South and Central Asia

• Lesson 1: The “Influencers” of Today and of Ancient South and Central Asia

• Lesson 2: South Asian Geography: Influences on People and Society

• Lesson 3: Challenges and Benefits of Central Asia’s Geography

• Lesson 4: Putting It Together: Analyzing the Geography of South & Central Asia

• Lesson 5: Human-Environment Interaction: The Ganges River and the Aral Sea (I)

• Lesson 6: Human-Environment Interaction:The Ganges River and the Aral Sea (II)

Cluster 2: Harappan Society

• Lesson 7: Meet the Harappans

• Lesson 8: Considering the Candidates: Stations of Harappan Artifacts

• Lesson 9: Supporting Claims: What Is Most Important about the Harappans?

• Lessons 10-11: Building the Exhibit

Cluster 3: Post-Harappan Developments in South Asia

• Lesson 12: Origins of Hinduism: The Vedas

• Lesson 13: Brahman: The Hindu Concept of the Divine

• Lesson 14: Key Hindu Beliefs: Karma, Samsara and Moksha

• Lesson 15: Dharma and Varna in Hindu Society

• Lesson 16: Key Aspects of Buddhism: Buddha, The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path

• Lesson 17: Buddhism: The Middle Way and Meditation

• Lesson 18: The Buddhist Community in Ancient South Asia

• Lesson 19: Bhagavad Gita, Dharma and Hindu Society

• Lesson 20: The Caste System in Modern and Historical Context

• Lesson 21: Reducing Inequality: The Activism of Bishnu Pariyar

Cluster 4: Kingship and Golden Ages in Ancient India and Central Asia

• Lesson 22: The Roots of Mauryan Power

• Lesson 23: Governing Kautilya-Style

• Lesson 24: From Bindusara to Ashoka: Analyzing Shifts in Mauryan Rule

• Lesson 25: Ashoka’s Edicts: Governing through the Teachings of Buddhism

• Lesson 26: Kautilya and Ashoka — Making Ancient and Modern Connections

• Lessons 27-29: An Inquiry: Who Created the Gupta Golden Age?

• Lesson 30: Central Asia and Baghdad: Land of Libraries and Learning

• Lesson 31: The Gifts of the Polymaths of Central Asia

Summative Assessment 

• Teacher Guidance

• Student Handout

• Additional Materials

Cluster 1: Geography and Environment in East Asia

• Lesson 1: What Is East Asia? Defining a Region

• Lesson 2: China’s Human Geography: Learning from Sources

• Lesson 3: Analyzing Maps: Physical Features and Human Development

• Lesson 4: Human-Environment Interactions in East Asia

Cluster 2: Early China from the Shang through Tang Dynasties

The Concerns & Contributions of Bronze-Age China

• Lesson 5: Life in the Shang, Revealed through Bones and Shells

• Lessons 6-7: Learning from Early Tombs: You Can Take It With You

• Lesson 8: The Lives of Common People, Recorded in The Book of Songs

• Lesson 9: The Centrality of Writing to Chinese Civilization

Ideas about Governing

• Lesson 10: Early Chinese Governing Philosophies

• Lessons 11-12: Inquiry Cycle: Were Qin Shi Huangdi’s Projects Worth the Cost?

• Lessons 13-14: Petitioning the Qin Emperor

Foundational Belief Systems and Innovations

• Lesson 15: Confucianism: Foundation of Han Social and Ethical Beliefs

• Lesson 16: Confucianism and Women

• Lesson 17: The Han Social Order: Religious Syncretism

• Lesson 18: Nature and the Cosmos: Indigenous Religious Beliefs and Daoism

• Lesson 19: Why Did Buddhism Spread across East Asia?

• Lessons 20-21: The Tang Model: Innovations That Spread

Cluster 3: Early Korea (Three Kingdoms to Koryo)

• Lesson 22: Historical Influences on Korean Identity

• Lesson 23: The Three Kingdoms: Constructing History through Images

• Lesson 24: Presentations on the Three Kingdoms 

• Lessons 25-27: Learning through Narrative: A Single Shard and Twelfth-Century Korea

Cluster 4: Classical and Early Medieval Japan

• Lesson 28: Classical Japan: Setting, Sequence and Shinto 

• Lesson 29: State Formation and Centralization

• Lesson 30: Imperial Power and the Threats to It, Near and Far

• Lesson 31: Decentralization and the Rise of the Samurai

• Lesson 32: Japanese Aesthetic Principles and Garden Design

• Lesson 33: A Reflection Over Tea and Poetry: Answering Essential Questions

Summative Assessment

• Part I (Teacher Version)

• Part II (Teacher Guidance)

• Complete Materials

Cluster 1: The Silk Routes: Trade and Cultural Exchange Across Asia

• Lesson 1: Exchange Across Asia – Timeline and Terms

• Lesson 2: The Geographical Challenges of Silk Route Travel

• Lesson 3: Cultural Diffusion along the Silk Routes

• Lessons 4-5: Investigating Relevant Sources: Who and What Traveled on the Silk Routes?

• Lesson 6: How Were the Maritime Silk Routes Different? 

• Lessons 7-8: Inquiry Cycle: Preparation for “Exchange at the Oases” Simulation

• Lesson 9: Inquiry Cycle: Exchange at the Oases Simulation

• Lesson10: Inquiry Cycle: Simulation Debriefing and Writing an Argument

• Lesson 11: The Legacy of Religious Tolerance in China

• Lesson 12: The Silk Road Legacy Today: China and the Uighurs

• Lesson 13: UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 and Responses to the Uighur Crisis

Cluster 1: Regional Geography and the Pacific Islands Past and Present

• Lesson 1: Google Earth Exploration: Traveling across Southeast Asia and Oceania

• Lesson 2: Populating the Pacific: People and Movement in the Ancient Past

• Lesson 3: Wayfinding as Indigenous Knowledge

• Lesson 4: Technology, Arts and Lifeways of Pacific Islanders, Past & Present

• Lessons 5-6: Colonial Pasts, Sustainable Futures for Pacific Islanders and their Homelands

Cluster 2: Aboriginal Australia and Māori New Zealand

• Lesson 7: The First People Arrive in Australia

• Lesson 8: Aboriginal Stewardship of the Land

• Lesson 9: How the First Peoples Told Stories through Art

• Lesson 10: The Māori of New Zealand

Cluster 3: Mainland and Island Southeast Asia

• Lesson 11: The Geography of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia

• Lesson 12: How Do We Know about Funan, Southeast Asia’s First Great State?

• Lesson 13: South Asian Influences on Southeast Asian Politics and Culture

• Lesson 14: Srivijaya: The Elements of a Flourishing State

• Lesson 15: The Hydraulic Empire of the Khmer

• Lesson 16: A Visit to Angkor Wat

• Lesson 17: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide

• Lesson 18: Cultural Survival and Unit Review

Summative Assessment

• Lesson 19: Part I (Teacher Guidance)

• Lessons 20-23: Part II - Final Project: Saving the Oceans of Oceania and Southeast Asia: A Policy for Social Change (Teacher Guidance)

• Complete Materials

Cluster 1: Geography of Europe

• Lesson 1: Europe’s Political Geography

• Lesson 2: Europe’s Physical Geography

• Lesson 3: Using Maps to Understand the People and Places of Europe

• Lesson 4: The European Union

• Lesson 5: Understanding Time Zones

Cluster 2: Ancient and Classical Greece, c. 1200–300 BCE

• Lesson 6: Who Were the Greeks?

• Lesson 7: Athens Becomes a Democracy

• Lesson 8: Women, Metics, and Enslaved Persons in Athens

• Lesson 9: Spartan Society and Its Civic Focus

• Lesson 10: The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars: Causes and Consequences

• Lesson 11: A Flourishing Age for Arts and Culture (Inquiry Cycle, L11-16)

• Lesson 12: The Arts and Ideas of Ancient Greece: Research

• Lesson 13: The Arts and Ideas of Ancient Greece: Research

• Lesson 14: The Arts and Ideas of Ancient Greece: Crafting a Presentation

• Lesson 15: The Arts and Ideas of Ancient Greece: Presenting to an Audience and Integrating Knowledge 

• Lesson 16: Alexander the Great and the Spread of Hellenistic Culture

Cluster 3: The Roman Republic and Empire, c. 500 BCE–500 CE

• Lesson 17:  The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Roman Republic (Part I)

• Lesson 18: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Roman Republic (Part II)

• Lesson 19: The Punic Wars and the Costs of Roman Expansion

• Lesson 20: Should Rome’s Destruction of Carthage Be Considered a Genocide?

• Lesson 21: Ruling the Roman Empire during the Pax Romana

• Lesson 22: The Tools of Empire: How the Romans Built and Maintained Power (Part I)

• Lesson 23: The Tools of Empire: How the Romans Built and Maintained Power (Part II)

• Lesson 24: Which Tools Would You Use to Control a Roman Province?

• Lesson 25: Resistance to Rome by Groups and Individuals

• Lesson 26: Putting It Together and Review for Summative Part I

Summative Assessment

• Part I (Teacher Guidance)

• Part II - Final Project: The Fall of the Western Roman Empire (Teacher Guidance)

• Complete Materials