Let's Learn About AANHPI Calendars!

Let's Learn About AANHPI Calendars!

This hands-on, interdisciplinary lesson plan guides students through an exploration of calendars from around the world, including the Gregorian, the Chinese calendar, the Vikram Samvat, and the Saka Samvat and Hijri calendars. Following the provided interactive slides, students will learn about the geography, astronomy, math, and culture of each of these calendars and gain an appreciation of calendars used by AANHPI communities around the world.

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

1. Compare and contrast different types of calendars

2. Understand the history and practice of different holidays and calendars from different cultures

3. Understand how calendar systems relate to the lunar and solar cycles

4. Understand how leap years are calculated

Essential Questions:

1. What calendars are used in different parts of the world?

2. How do these calendars work mathematically and scientifically?

3. Why do different groups of people use different calendars?

4. How do different calendar systems impact the lives of the people who use them?

The standards covered in this lesson are:

• Math: CCSS.MATH.3.OA.A.2, CCSS.MATH.3.NF.A.1, CCSS.MATH.4.OA.A.3, CCSS.MATH.4.NF.B.3.A, CCSS.MATH.4.NF.C.6, CCSS.MATH.5.NBT.A.1, CCSS.MATH.5.NBT.A.3, CCSS.MATH.5.NBT.B.5, CCSS.MATH..5.NBT.B.7

• Science: NGSS.1-ESS1-1., NGSS.MS-ESS1-1.

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Lesson plan created by Rose Clubok and Julia Wang in partnership with OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates

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