pre-2011 web resources

[Anonymous]

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,408594,00.html

This is a TFK website and students can click on a city in China and a window pops up with some interesting facts about each place. Then you can read about a day in the life of two Chinese children. It gives a daily schedule of their life. The kids would love this and be able to relate. Another plug for technology incorporation!

[Anonymous]

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html

This website provides historical information about the main Chinese Dynasties and their leaders, and then it provides special links where students can learn how to use chopsticks, about silk production, different games and puzzles including a yo-yo. The kids could read about the history and play a game. They can also color a Great Wall of China page. For teachers, there is a site from another teacher who provides his lesson plans and reproducibles that go along and webquests and games etc. He even has a link where you can enter your name and it gives you your Chinese name. A good site to check out!

[Anonymous]

http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/chinesenewyear.php

This site mainly concentrates on Chinese New Year. It has links for puppets, games, puzzles, clip art, coloring pages. This site also contains information and explanations for CNY and lessons that can be used with CNY. Some of the activities are not updated which poses a problem. It was created in 2003 so it relates to the year of the sheep rather than this year, per say, of the dog.

[Anonymous]

This is a wonderful interactive website for students. The website address is: www,Madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/kids/KIDS-00620.html

The KIDS Report is a biweekly publication produced by K-12 students as a resource to other K-12 students. It is an ongoing, cooperative effort of 15 classrooms from around the world. Teachers assist and provide support; however, students select, evaluate and annotate all resources included in every issue of the KIDS Report. In each issue there are activities and links to additional sites students may view. This website continues to change every two weeks, so the students could gain new information each time they visit the website.

[Anonymous]

I have encountered a website that can be used to purchase resources for our classrooms.

asiaforkids.com

This website unable you DVD to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese. This would be an excellent addition to our school because our students are learning the language in PE. It would be great for all the teachers to have access to a resource where we can incorporate more language into our classrooms

Teachers may also buy, books, flashcards, and games.

[Anonymous]

I found a great resource for those of you who love the internet. If you're familiar with teach-nology, you'll know that this is a quality website. On it you'll find printable maps, craft ideas, and internet field trips.

http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/country/china/

[Anonymous]

I encounter another website: http://www.apple4teachers.com

This website provides a variety of resources for teachers, parents, and students. All of the activities incorporated aspects of Chinese culture. There are activities and games for kids. The students can make Chinese tanagrams and then recreate them. A teacher may find lesson -plans, language art printable and materials for test preparation. Additionally, there are arts and craft ideas and a list of references for children's books.

[Anonymous]

Another resource I have encountered that would be useful for the classroom is

http://www.gigglepotz.com/china.html

This website a student can send cards for the Chinese New Year. The child may view examples of paper cuts. They may print out puzzles and other activities. There is a great resource for teachers and students that provide you to links about common questions about philosophies, history, and attractions in China. For example, the links include:

Silk production
Dragons
Confucius
Buddhism
Daoism
Geography
The Great Wall

[Anonymous]

For those interested in the Olympics for 2008 the official website is
http://en.beijing2008.com/
It has news stories of how the Olympics are coming along in Beijing.
I tried the link for education and it doesn't seem to have anything yet. However there was a story in the Environment section how they have involved 1,000 schools in saving water in preparation for a green olympics.

[Anonymous]

I found a website that seems to have all the infromation you would need to put together a unit on China or Japan beginning with the origins to the classic period all the way up to the modern era. The site has broken down each period into categories including culture, religion, politics, history etc. I would definitely recommend this site for secondary students as well as teachers. It has special links for teacher materials as well. It is light on Korea but has some good stuff to use as well.
The site http://www.afe.easia.columbia.edu

[Anonymous]

The website http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/ is very useful for providing multimedia resources. Indiana University maintains a video/dvd library of films covering a wide variety of topics all centering on East Asia. They will allow school teachers to borrow any of their films for free. I don't think that includes postal costs though. I found many interesting films that could be used to support lessons about East Asian countries.

[Anonymous]

If your are looking for some great ideas for lessons on Asia including Art, Film, History, Literature, etc. check out http://www.aasianst.org/EAA/subs.htm
They offer a quarterly publications "Education About Asia" which is filled with all kinds or resources, lessons, etc. that cover all of East Asia. I especially like two articles I found, one entitled "10 things to know about Korea in the 21st C" and the other, "10 things to know about Japan in the late 1990's".

[clay dube]

Curious as to what sort of intelligence informed American leaders about China during the 1960s and 1970s? The CIA has declassified a number of documents and made them available through its Freedom of Information Act website. Many concern military capacity, but others analyze the importance of the Cultural Revolution and some speculate on leadership changes.

Take a look: http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_china_collection.asp

[Anonymous]

I was visiting a shopping mall in Koreatown last summer and came across a group that was putting on an art exhibit in the middle of a shopping mall. It was intitled "North Korea Genocide Exhibit" and there were numerous paintings depicting people who are suffering while living inside North Korean Prison Camps. This got me interested in the topic and I did a search and found a website that focuses on the issue of genocide and democide (government sponsored murder) in North Korea and elsewhere. The site http://www.hawaii.edu/powekills is produced by a professor at the University of Hawaii. It includes a huge amount of information and documentation of worldwide acts of democide. In particular the site gives statistic relating to democide in China during the Mao period. His estimates show that about 70-80 million people parished under Mao's regime which beats out the Soviet Unions record of approximatley 60 million dead between 1919-1989. The site also has estimates of the high level of democide going on currently in North Korea. I haven't seen much mentioned of democide in our schools history textbooks let alone any of the shocking estimates of the millions of people who have died in Communist China, including Vietnam, Cambodia and currently in North Korea. There has been alot of focus on other genocides in history but some of this information cetainly needs to be put out there to our students as they learn about Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries.

[Anonymous]

Has everybody checked out the wealth of resources here at the UCLA Asia Institue site?

There is an amazing amount of resources, but the one that I'm excited about using first is the primary source documents under Asia Documents.

There are so many documents available, and it would be so easy to have the students use these in lessons .

The specific address is http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/documents/index.asp

Give it a look.

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