Message from mgu

[Anonymous]

Confucius is one subject we touched this semester (7th grade). Since social studies/history is not my subject, I won't be able to spend chunks of classroom time on specific topics.

I took the class to the Pacific Asia Museum's Confucius: Shaping Values Through Art. The students saw the philosophy's influences on arts objects, daily life, and literature. We discussed how Confucius teaching was done through exposing children to stories painted on different everyday objects. Students also watched the interviews with Southern Californian locals talking about how they view Confucius teaching nowadays. The students filled the museum survey as part of the assessment.

I would say that artifacts always inspire genuine discussion. So even the class cannot afford visiting the museum (which is free for a group of 12 or more), the teacher might be able to show some artifact and open the topic.