Please note: Special public hours – 10 AM to 5 PM – on Thursday, May 9
Objective: Students will complete a K-W-L chart and Object Investigation of the Cyrus Cylinder to research the Achaemenid Persian empire and Cyrus the Great.
The Cyrus Cylinder
MATERIALS:
The Cyrus Cylinder: K-W-L Chart for each student (see downloads above)
Great Power, Great Choices (storytelling video)
Image and description of the Cyrus Cylinder
Rediscovering the Cyrus Cylinder: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Additional Materials:
Cyrus the Great and the Rise of the Persian Empire (talk)
PROCEDURES:
Activity
In this activity, you will create your own “space sculpture” out of found objects, light, and shadow.
Activity
Lesson
Activity
Activity
Design a calligraphic plate using Arabic script and images inspired by a meaningful word.
Background Information
Islam has been an important cultural force in much of Asia for more than five hundred years, and in some parts for more than a thousand. Today, far more Muslims live in other parts of Asia than in the Arab areas of Asia such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
Video
Touraj Daryaee, Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture at the University of California, Irvine, gives a talk to teachers about Cyrus the Great in conjunction with the Cyrus Cylinder exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (on view from August 9–September 22, 2013).
Video
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Leta Bushyhead, tells a story about the Persian New Year, Nowruz.
Activity
Use animal templates to make a mix and match game where you create new mythical creatures.
Background Information
Over the centuries, two main branches of Buddhism emerged: a transmission that traveled to Southeast Asia, and a transmission that evolved in East Asia. A further offshoot of the northern transmission also developed. All three branches began in India, and developed further as they moved across Asia.
