Geography

Background Reading:  

Brown, Don.  Far Beyond the Garden Gate, Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa.    Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.

Garfunkel,  Jonathan.  Approaching Tibetan Studies: A Resource Handbook for Educators.   Bainbridge Island , WA : Global Source Education, 2001.

Kapit, Wynn.  The Geography Coloring Book.    Upper Saddle River , New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 2003. 
 
Lewis, Todd T., and Theodore Riccardi, Jr.  The Himalayas : A Syllabus of the Region's History, Anthropology, and Religion.   Ann Arbor , Michigan : Asian Studies Association, 1995. 

Zurick, David,  and P. P. Karan.  Himalaya, Life on the Edge of the World.    Baltimore , Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 

Zurick, David, and Julsun Pacheco.  Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya.    Lexington , Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky , 2006. 

Lewis, Todd T., and Theodore Riccardi, Jr..  The Himalayas : A Syllabus of the Region's History, Anthropology, and Religion .   Ann Arbor , Michigan : Asian Studies Association, 1995.

Implementation:  

The students need to have a sense of where Tibet and the Himalayas are in relation to where they live. I would thus suggest beginning with the very general map of the world in Don Brown’s  Far Beyond the Garden Gate, Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa. I would then work with students with The Geography Coloring Book using the sections on Asia and the Himalayan region.