THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Workshops and Online Resources
Professional development and training workshops for educators are an important component of outreach activities at the Center for East Asian Studies that are supported by the United States Department of Education and crafted in coordination with other UChicago Title VI National Resource Centers. Workshops are designed by university faculty, graduate students, and Center staff to enhance classroom curriculum in local public and private high schools and community colleges. Workshops introduce pedagogical methods and materials that facilitate the study of East Asia in the classroom and address a variety of subjects.
To request a workshop, please contact abbeynewman@uchicago.edu.
CEAS posts educational materials related to East Asia, free of charge, for educators and others who find them useful.
For East Asian-related Resources from 2014 to Present, please visit UChicago Educator Outreach.
The following are examples of East Asia-related resources and programs from 2013 and earlier:
K-12 Lesson Plans
- Battling Natural Disaster
- Building with Energy in Mind
- Green and Local Architecture
- Mapping Knowledge of HVR
- Picturing Fracking
- Putting Nuclear Power on Trial
- Teaching Fukushima Resource Guide
- What Happened at Fukushima?
Yuki Miyamoto - Discrimination, Disaster, and Disease: Revisiting Hiroshima and Minamata in the Wake of Fukushima
- The Atomic Age - A Clean-up Worker’s View Inside Fukushima’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant via Pop Matters
- Fukushima in Light of Minamata
- Contamination: From Minamata to Fukushima
- Life-world: Beyond Fukushima and Minamata
Aoki Kojima - Eating in Post-Fukushima World: Radioactive Contamination of Food and Farmers, Fishermen, and Consumers
- Analysis of WHO Report on Fukushima Catastrophe
- Radiation Protection After the Chernobyl Catastrophe
- On "Fuhyo Higai" (harmful rumor)
- Farmers Protest Against Japanese Nuke Plant Owner
- Fukushima Fisherman Forced to Test Fish for Radiation
- Greenpeace Pushes for Better Fish Radiation Disclosure
- Japanese Struggle to Protect Their Food Supply
- Mothers First to Shed Food-Safety Complacency
- Japan Nuclear Crisis Erodes Farmers' Livelihoods
- Officials Test School Lunches to Ease Parents' Fears
- Radiation Fears Send Fish Hauls Spiraling
- Yokohama Mums Against Radiation
Sarah Arehart — On Teaching Fukushima: The 3/11 Earthquake and Tsunami: Background Reports
- Teaching March 11 and Japan: A Resource Guide for Educators
- 20 Ways to Teach About the Disaster in Japan Across the Curriculum
- Japan, Tohoku region map
- Tsunami Family Saved by Schoolgirl's Geography Lesson
- Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Tohoku EQ summary
- Teaching the 3/11 Earthquake and Tsunami: An Image Bank
Resources for Nuclear Energy and Accidents
- Nuclear Plant Siting and Earthquake Risk
- Post-Fukushima Nuclear Politics in Japan
- Preview of "FILM: Explaining the Nuclear Accident to Kids - Nuclear Reactor Boy's Upset Stomach"
- Crisis in Japan: Understanding Nuclear Energy and Reactors
Cleaning up Fukushima, 2011-2013
Thomas O'Keefe: Impact of Dams - Case Study China
- Impact of Dams: Case Study China [Lecture-YouTube]
- Impact of Dams in China: A Journey Through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River
- Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future is Drying Up
- Underwater: The World's Biggest Dam Floods the Past
- China's Engineers Propose World's Biggest Hydro-electric Project in Tibet
- South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China
- Who Will China Feed?
Perspectives on Dams [Panel and Q&A-YouTube]
K-12 Lesson Plans
Additional Links and Lessons
- World Poetry (Powerpoint)
- Classroom Lessons (PDF)