San Antonio's cultural experience museum..

Crossroads of Culture
Winter 2006

A topical newsletter for social studies teachers in grades 4-8
Distributed three times each school year (fall-winter-spring)
by the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Games We Play
The Pre-modern Asian Roots of America's Favorite Games
Read and print a copy of this issue, which features:

ITC curator Meg Gibson's informative article about modern games from ancient Asia

Photographs of artwork and objects from the exhibit Asian Games: The Art of Contest

Links to interactive sites for sudoku (logical thinking) and mahjong (visual discrimination)

Guidance in using the lesson plans and activities on our Web site

Resources for newsletter activities:

• Lesson Plans: A one-hour class activity for grades 4 - 8: Corroborating Sources
• A two-hour class activity especially for 6th grade world cultures classes: Introducing Asia with Asian Games (includes corroborating sources task)
• Student handouts for lesson plans
• Games list
• Games List for 6th grade
• Student pages
• Asian New Year Webliography
• Games Wordsearch puzzle
• TEKS Applications for...
• Grade 4
• Grade 5
• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Most of the hyperlinks on this page launch Portable Document File (.pdf) format pages. Adobe Acrobat is required, and is availabe for free by clicking the "Get Adobe Reader" icon.

 

Home | ITC in the news | UTSA | Contact Us | Site Map | Associations | Employment

©UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, 801 S. Bowie St., San Antonio, TX 78205-3296, (210) 458-2330