An article written by Todd Lewis that was published in Education About Asia in 2011 that discuses what educators need to know when they prepare to teach Transcendentalism and it's Asian influence.
Introduction:
The treatment of Transcendentalism by twentieth-century teachers of literature and American history has followed a long tradition of focusing primarily on the European and American cultural influences on its major figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson and Louisa May Alcott. Their work is seen as fitting into various Western currents such as German Romanticism, Unitarian theology, neo-Platonism...

For this assignment, you will be building an instrument with your group. To get you started on choosing your instrument, please read the following primer and get acquainted with the four families of instruments. Then make decisions on the materials you will use, which instrument you will actually construct, and which family it will belong to. You will also need to designate the following members: 1) Project Coordinator 2) Historian 3) Bibliographer 4) Head Foreman.

The Harvard Art Museums have produced a coloring book to introduce kids to the art and culture of ancient Egypt. Through coloring pages, drawing exercises, a space to practice writing hieroglyphs, and more, "Coloring Ancient Egypt" explores Egyptian objects in the museums’ collections. It is available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. Jen Thum was a 2016 CAORC Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Alum who traveled to Egypt, Lebanon, and Sudan.

In 1999, the University of Chicago began the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA) to make electronic dictionaries of South Asian languages available to the public for free. It includes languages from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Gary Tubb, Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC), and James Nye, former University of Chicago Library Southern Asia bibliographer and COSAS Emeritus, were awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education that allows them to expand these digital dictionaries to include Kashmiri, Panjabi, Persian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Telugu, and Urdu languages. James Nye is a CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship alum, who traveled to Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, and India on the fellowship.

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and others. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia. James Nye is a CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship alum, who traveled to Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, and India on the fellowship.

This is an open-ended activity designed as a long-term undergraduate research project for Earth science, physical geography, or environmental studies courses. It is designed to allow for substantial student autonomy with the guidance of an instructor. The activity presented here may be modified to fit one’s class and instructional style.

In December 2023, Geeta Wahi Dua led a tour of Sunder Nursery in Delhi for CAORC OFDS participants. During the tour, she intertwined the history of the nursery with stories of the design elements, pointing out motifs and the meaning behind them.
Garden as Universe, Universe as Garden: What are the creative realms of gardens in contemporary India? Landscape architect Geeta Wahi Dua discusses curating the book Bagh-e-Bahar for the 2023 India Art, Architecture, and Design Biennale. The book celebrates the idea of a “garden” in the context of India. Dua shares selected gardens in India with strong attributes toward philosophical, environmental, and design aesthetics, which cover diverse geographies, manifest in multiple scales, and reflect the rich natural and cultural heritage of the country. UCF Arboretum Director Jennifer Elliot as moderator.

In January 2024, Ruchita Gupta, Ph.D. presented a lecture on Indian urban informal settlements to CAORC OFDS participants visiting the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.
Informal Housing in Delhi: Policies and Case Studies: The growth of India’s population and increase in urban migration has amplified the shortage of affordable housing in India’s capital. How do government policies address the need for housing for the urban poor, slums and squatter settlements in the city of Delhi? Ruchita Gupta, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Housing, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, presents several case studies to provide a glimpse of the living conditions of the urban poor in these settlements. Moderated by FDS participant Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building Construction and Interior Design, Miami Dade College.

This assignment is part of Montgomery College’s open pedagogy and a renewable practice that promotes the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The assignment is designed for students to take advantage of the Smithsonian Learning Lab, an open access initiative by the Smithsonian Institution. You get to learn about a new country, demonstrate your understanding of gender issues and labor markets in different economic structures, and share the legacies of women who inspire you. Your stories become a collection of the Lab. They are aligned with the Institution’s Because of Her Story Initiative that empowers women and promotes gender equality. Hoa Nguyen is a CAORC Overseas Faculty Development Seminar alum of the 2020 Senegal program.

An article written by Todd Lewis that was published in Education About Asia in 2010 that discuses what educators need to know when they prepare to teach asian religions.
Introduction:
For teachers seeking resources to instill greater global literacy on world religions, it is the best of times and the worst of times. Cultural diversity in American schools is increasing, and the number of Hindu temples, mosques, and Buddhist meditation centers is rising. Because of popular media, references to Hindu gods, Daoist geomancy, or Buddhist karma teachings no longer seem exotic...

This module will allow students in philosophy, geography, earth science, political science, and global studies to learn about social contract theory while applying it to water access problems in India. The module presented here may be modified to fit one’s class and instructional style. Social contract theory explains why people need to cooperate to escape suffering and to behave ethically. Social contract theory is: (1) an ethical theory; (2) a justification for government; as well (3) an explanation for group cooperation. Students will use Internet resources and the attached documents.

This lesson teaches students about the traumatic experience of the Middle Passage from West Africa to the Americas through textual description and visual images. It includes an excerpt from a primary source The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, a brief clip from the 1997 film Amistad, and photographic images of the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) located on Gorée Island, Senegal. Anita Gaul is a History Instructor at Minnesota West Community & Technical College in Worthington, Minnesota. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Iowa and participated in the 2020 Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal. She welcomes questions and comments on this lesson plan. You can reach her at anita.gaul@mnwest.edu. Anita Gaul is a CAORC Overseas Faculty Development Seminar alum of the 2020 Senegal Program.

In this activity you will explore some of the natural hazards associated with the Himalayan monsoon as an impact on Hindu pilgrims on their holy pilgrimage through readings and videos and answering the questions listed. The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate an understanding of the hazard impacts of monsoon rains on mountain people in Uttarakhand, India.
*Note: This activity is related to the mapping project titled, "Yamuna: A Deep Mapping Project". This is the second activity and it is recommended that the activity "How Monsoons in Indian Himalaya are Formed" should be given to students first.

The Education About Asia (2017) piece orients students to current debates about the specter of water wars. The essay presents cases in South and Southeast Asia to illustrate how international water conflicts are more likely to engender ordinary, everyday forms of violence than the spectacular conflicts envisioned in water wars.

Ep 1: How Do We Talk About Islam?
Ep 2: Advice to Young Journalists
Ep 3: Muhammad and the Qur'an
Ep 4: Islamic Law
Ep 5: Friends and Lovers of God
Ep 6: Difficult Scripture: Gender in the Qur'an
Ep 7: Violence Here and Abroad
Ep 8: Terrorism and the Media
This series aims to provide information about Islam from a scholarly perceptive as well as present the perspectives and voices of Muslims from Elon’s own community. The goals of this series are1) to increase public knowledge about issues relating to Islam; and 2) to encourage people to think more deeply about issues common to all religious traditions and societies. Ariela is a 2022 CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellow Alum who traveled to Senegal, Morocco, and Mauritania on her fellowship.

This essay in environmental SCIENTIST, 2019, grapples with the phenomenon of 'climate reductionism' to illustrate how researchers and policymakers, in emphasizing climate change, may miss important drivers of environmental vulnerability and change.

Teach in Spanglish is founded on a simple idea: while just a small fraction of today’s college students will progress to the high-level, all-in-Spanish courses offered by language departments, more than two-thirds enter college with the ability to understand Spanish when given context in English, support from their instructor, and time.

Over nearly a decade in the classroom, our team has shown that students who took Spanish for at least two years in high school, at least one year in college, and/or who were raised in a bilingual environment (Spanish as a Heritage Language speakers, or SHL) can, with proper support, engage in high-level analysis of Spanish and Spanglish primary sources and original texts, utilizing insights from linguistics to both structure the classroom experience and guide students in their engagement.

The teach in Spanglish website links to a form that allows instructors to request access to a free Canvas site that contains instructor facing videos, quizzes, and other modules to help get started teaching in Spanglish.

An article written by Todd Lewis and Jinah Kim that was published in Education About Asia in 2020 that discuses what educators need to know when they prepare to teach about South Asian Religious Art
Introduction:
There are many ways to talk about the art of India (here, India is a shorthand for the South Asian subcontinent). From a serene stone sculpture of a meditating Buddha to the dynamic image of Dancing Shiva in bronze, to cosmic symbolism of soaring temples covered in sensuous celestial bodies built in stone to the perfect architecture of Taj Mahal, to colorful paintings of heroes and heroines of love stories and myths to intricate carvings on ivory...

The Global Urban Sustainable Center's project team created a web-based, open-access, crowd-sourced resource to share Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) related to sustainability in India and beyond. The resource has duel purposes for college and university teachers: providing instructional material on urban issues and sustainability through the existing shared
VFTs offered on the site and providing an opportunity for students to create a VFT of a community they are familiar to share. This project was made possible through the generous support of the American Institute of Indian Studies and includes images from site visits from the 2019-20 CAORC Faculty Development Seminar: Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's Cities. This resource not only allows students to view and learn from the Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) that are currently available, but also gives the chance for students to make a VFT of a community that they know and want to share.
This resource can be used as a 'view only' resource for younger students or can be used more interactively with older students who you'd like for them to create their own VFT. For older students you might want them to fully create a VFT or use it as an example for them to think about their communities and how to share that with others.

My article in Geography Review (2019) introduces upper-level high school students to the transboundary dimensions of ostensibly localized and domestic water security issues.