Workshop Resources & Lesson Plans
Workshop resources and handouts are developed by CREES experts as supplementary materials for educators who attend our annual workshops or anyone interested in the topic.
CREES Teacher Scholar Lesson Plans are created by teachers for teachers. Whether the subject material is visual arts, history, math, music or economics, Teacher Scholars apply his or her own perspective and teaching experience to create fun and inventive lesson plans based on the information they received at the CREES workshop.
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1 - Introduction to Breaking Stalin's Nose | Differences Between Communism and Capitalism Handout (doc)
Lesson 2 - Chapter 1-2 | Discussion Questions and Venn Diagram (pdf)
Lesson 3 - Chapters 3-5 | Discussion Questions (pdf), Analyze the Illustration Worksheet (pdf)
Lesson 4 - Chapters 6-10 | Discussion Questions (pdf)
Lesson 5 - Chapters 11-15 | Discussion Questions (pdf)
Resources
Author Eugene Yelchin's Website
Capitalism and Communism PDF (Grades 3-5) / (Grades 6-7)
Children of Conflict, Children of Peace (2014)
Resources
Trafficking Resources for Educators [PDF]
Human Trafficking Power & Control Wheel [PDF]
Headlines Activity: analyzing world events through lens of the media
Workshop Wordcloud [PDF]
Tactile Turkey (2013)
Resources
Patterns of Turkey: Form, Structure & Meaning [PDF] - Terri Erickson-Harper,
JCCC Graphic Design
Video: Current Events in Turkey: Much Ado About a Turkish Mall, Mike Wuthrich, KU CGIS
For More Info on the Gezi Park Protests [doc]
Turkish Film Suggestions [doc]
Other Recommended Resources [doc]
Caravanserai Country Spotlight: Turkey
Workshop Wordcloud [PDF]
World Environment (2013)
Resources
Map: Soviet Environmental Legacy [PDF] - Dr. Shannon O'Lear, KU Geography Department
Red Square and the Russian Search for Identity (2012)
Lesson Plans
Red Square Handout and Questions [PDF] - Dr. Jonathan Perkins, Director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center at KU.
Resources
CREES Crossroads Webzine (2011)
Lesson Plans
History of the Cyrillic Alphabet [PDF] - Adrienne Landry, History
Ali and Nino [PDF] - Adrienne Landry, Literature
Identity and Music [PDF] - Adrienne Landry, Music
Music, the Arts, and Migration (2011)
Lesson Plans
Webquesting Around the World: Tuva [PDF] - Christian Lucy, Geography & Social Studies
World Review Acrostics [PDF] - Dave Olson, History
Acrostic Sample
Landscape Painting to Music [PDF] - Heather Olson, Art & Music
Teaching the Silk Road: The Past, Present, and Future of Global Market (2010)
Resources
Lesson Plans
Silk Road Tiles [PDF] - Bianca Elliot, Art, Geography and History
Where is Your T-Shirt, Blouse or Shirt Produced? [PDF] -
Dawn Yonally, Economics and Social Studies
Reading Along the Silk Road [PDF] - Lisa Healey, Literature and Social Studies
Food for Though: Lunch in Kazakhstan [PDF] - Renee Sanchez, Social Studies
Students study what made trade work on the Silk Road of the Old World [PDF] - Richard Wilds, History
Reimagining Central Europe: Transition and Identity (2009)
Lesson Plans
East European Acrostics [PDF] - Dave Olson, Geography
Introduction to the Velvet Revolution [PDF] - Bianca Elliot, Geography and History
When Poland Leads Europe: John III Sobieski and Lech Walesa [PDF] - Richard Wilds, History
Introduction to the Velvet Revolution [PDF] Geography and History
Learning to Negotiate the Peace: International Trade in the 21st Century (2008)
Lesson Plans
Reading International Blogs [PDF] - Cynthia Rhodes, Social Studies
Intro to China [PDF] - Dave Olson, Geography
Follow That Coffee Cup [PDF] - Kathy Ray, Economics and Social Studies
Peace is the Natural Effect of Trade [PDF] - Michelle Radio and Barbara Turnbull, Economics and Social Studies
Ancient Silk Road & Modern Asian Highways [PDF] - Richard Wilds, Geography
Economic Pullback [PDF] - Trudy Ringer, Economics
Art, Politics, and Revolution: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Struggle for Ideas (2008)
Resources
Art, Politics, and Revolution: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Struggle for Ideas [PDF]
E. W. Clowes, Utopia in Avant-Garde Russian Art and Literature, LIST OF INTERNET IMAGES [PDF]
Lesson Plans
Zulus and Boxers [PDF] - istory
Images of Power, Oppression, and Protest [PDF] -
An accompanying PowerPoint file is available
The RevoLawrencians [PDF] - Art
Deconstructing Architecture: A Look at the Avant_Garde in Russian Architecture [PDF] - Pamela Rohlfing, Art
A Selection of Russian Avant-Garde Art and Architecture 1890-1934 [PDF] - Paul Adams, Art and History
Art and Change: Printmaking [PDF] -
An accompanying PowerPoint file is available.
World Culture Chairs [PDF] - Art
Conflict and Creativity in the Balkans (2007)
Lesson Plans
What to think about the Balkan situation in the 1800s and 1900s [PDF] - Bianca Elliot, History
On The Air: Host your own Interactive Learning Show! (2006)
Lesson Plans
Special Forces, The Cold War & The Future: How to use Special Forces in History and Current Events in the Classroom [PDF] - Richard Wilds, History
"Everyone has an Uncle Vanya": Understanding Character Through Mimic Writing [PDF] - Ken Willard, Literature and Writing
Mongols: Forging a bridge of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe (2006)
Lesson Plans
Road Mongols [PDF] - Richard Wilds, History
Mongolian Women: Then and Now [PDF] - Bianca Elliot, Geography
How to Celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Mongol Empire [PDF] - Charlotte A. Anderson, Geography
Marvelous Mongolia [PDF] - Cayetana Maristela, Geography.
A supplemental Mongolian folktale is available.
Mongol Dynasty [PDF] - Jay Roberts, History
Cold War Workshop (2005)
Lesson Plans
Astronomy and the Cold War: How the United States Used the Moon to Target the Soviet Union [PDF] - Richard Wilds, History
Kansas in the Movies, the Cold War Period [PDF] - Tatyana Wilds, History and Film Studies
Treasures in St. Petersburg (2003)
Lesson Plans
Face of Russia: Lesson Plans [PDF] The Power of Architecture, written by Susan Michal, Forest Knolls Elementary School, Silver Spring, MD Grade Level.
Resources
Treasures of St. Petersburg curriculum packet is in CD-ROM format and includes color pictures and music.
