1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: History/Social Studies.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the central idea or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.

2. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?
In 1790, King Bodawpaya ordered the construction of a large Buddhist temple near Mingun, a small village outside of Mandalay in modern-day Myanmar. Prisoners of war and slaves were conscripted to build the temple, but Bodawpaya’s own people didn’t like the toll the massive project put on the general population.
So it’s said that the king was told if the temple was completed, his reign would come to an end – either the country would dissolve or the king would die. The superstitious Bodawpaya took the warning to heart, demanding a slow-down on construction. When he died in 1819, the project was immediately abandoned. A huge earthquake in 1839 caused cracks in the structure, but visitors can visit the ruins of Mingun Pahtodawgyi, a nearly 500-foot tall monument.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?1
Map Search
Find an Image that portrays the city of Amarapura. 2
Web Search
What do you notice in the image, and what is King Bodawpaya’s significance of this city? 3
Video Search
Find a video that portrays some of the major buildings, monuments and other structures in Myanmar. Which of these buildings and monuments were developed or initiated by King Bodawpaya? 4
What were some of King Bodawpaya’s other accomplishments that are still evidenced today?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?1
Image Search
Find an Image that portrays the city of Amarapura. 2
Web Search
What do you notice in the image, and what is King Bodawpaya’s significance of this city? 3
Video Search
Find a video that portrays some of the major buildings, monuments and other structures in Myanmar. Which of these buildings and monuments were developed or initiated by King Bodawpaya? 4
What were some of King Bodawpaya’s other accomplishments that are still evidenced today? 5
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?1
Map Search
Find an Image that portrays the city of Amarapura.
(Possible queries: “Mandalay, Amarapura” or “Myanmar, Amarapura”)
From myanmars.net:
From losviajeros.net:
From lacina.net:

8. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?2
Web Search
What do you notice in the image, and what is King Bodawpaya’s significance of this city?
(Possible queries: “Myanmar history” or “King Bodawpaya”)
From myanmars.net:
(Also in Wikipedia:
King Bodawpaya established the city of Amarapura as the new capital of Myanmar.
From Wikipedia:
In this image ( I notice two monks walking across across a bridge (according to the photo’s caption). King Bodawpaya is credited for creating a unified sect of monks called the Thudhamma.

9. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?3
Video Search
Find a video that portrays some of the major buildings, monuments and other structures in Myanmar. What does the video say about King Bodawpaya’s role in developing Myanmar’s buildings and monuments?
(Possible query: “Myanmar, buildings and monuments”)
From YouTube:
This video portrays several beautiful buildings and monuments, including the Settawya Pagoda. The video suggests that King Bodawapaya was very interested in development and loved architecture and as a results, authorized the development of several of the monuments and buildings one can see in Myanmar today.

10. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?4
Web Search
What were some of King Bodawpaya’s other accomplishments that are still evidenced today?
(Possible queries: “King Bodawpaya, legacy” or “King Bodawpaya, accomplishments”)
From Wikipedia:
King Bodawpaya is credited with helping to reform religious practice and intellectual life, which included the study of law, and the establishment of a unified sect of monks.

11. What do you think can be considered to be King Bodawpaya’s legacy?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.