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AnonymousThe Hiroshima Archive was created by Mayu Tsuruya with former Lewis and Clark College professor Gerald Figal as a site to commemorate the Hiroshima bombing and its victims. The site is very simple and clean with numerous links to documents and with a large collection of photographs showing the effects of the bombing on the city of Hiroshima. The site is easy to navigate and is very useful for providing another viewpoint other than the official versiions of the United States and the opinions we (students and teachers) might express in class that support the notion of the necessity of using atomic weapons on Japan to end the war. This site can be used as a sesource for a research paper or project as well as a spark to debates about the bombing. The black and white motif of the main page leaves me with a somber feeling.
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AnonymousI came across two cool web resources to teach about traditional Korean musical intruments and music. The first one has pictures and descriptions of popular traditional Korean instruments, from string, woodwind to percussion. On this website, you can click on the pictures to hear what each individual instrument sounds like. On the second website, you can sample traditional Korean music; from pansori (vocal) to dance tunes, and some modernized traditional tunes, movie soundtracks with traditional music, etc. These are pretty cool websites.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/r/mrb280/assignment7/pictures.html
AnonymousI just read your post about the site for Chinese music. I will explore it. I love using music with my kids for each world history unit I teach. When I was in China last spring I bought a CD of the 12 Girl's Band. The band plays contemporary music and uses many ancient Chinese instruments. My kids were really interested and enjoyed seeing contemporary young Chinese perform. If was a good buy.
AnonymousI found a great interactive website for seventh graders. It teaches about Zheng He. This site will be engaging and appealing to students of all levels. It may be seen with Flash Media ( animated) or as a plain website ( text and picture). The National Library Board has put it together. In the "About the Exhibition" section, there is easy to read and understand background information on the aspects of the exhibition. Students select from categories such as "Early Maritime Asia" or "Zheng He's Legacy". The section opens up with artifacts moving by like on a conveyor belt. Students select one and it opens up with a larger picture of the artifact and information on it written in English and Chinese.
This website covers the maritime expeditions and Ming aspect of the standard:
7.3.4: (Students) Understand the importance of both overland trade and maritime expeditions between China ......
Students may complete a worksheet in one class period. I'm including it as part of my big China sequence book project for my seventh graders. The task that my students have to do for this will be a page in their sequence book. They have to use this website to answer a question on Zheng He and include a correct MLA bibliographic entry for the site.
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Anonymoushttp://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/thisweek/index.htm
This site is called Today in Asian history. It is a compilation of historical events from almost every country in modern Asia. It is set in calendar form, with each month of the year, and all the days in that particular month. Certain days have a link, and when you click the link, a page opens up with detailed historical information that happened on that specific day, and the year in which the event happened. Once you open up the links page, amazing information related to war, independence, colonization, diplomacy, and any relevant information about a country in Asia is displayed. You can choose at random, or you can choose by month or day to see what information pops up about a country in Asia.
This can be a very useful tool for history teachers. When I do my units on Asian countries, I can refer to this on an almost daily basis to give pertinent information to my students about a particular country or region. Also, it gives a teacher a chance to link the past to the present, and give valuable context to what is being studied in the classroom. This website is ideal for class discussions, in-depth analysis, and relating Asia to the rest of the world to see the global impact of political, social and economic policies that have affected Asia, and how Asian political, social and economic polices have affected the world.
Anonymoushttps://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
An excellent resource for pretty much every aspect of a country is the CIA fact book. This publication is done by the Central Intelligence Agency and consists of all the information that a country could list. The website is easy to navigate, starting with a link where you can choose any country in the world. Once you choose a country, it will have an introduction of that country with a relief map showing that countries location. Then all the information about that country’s geography is listed. Things like arable land, agriculture production, and what crops that country produces the most. Then the site talks about the population of that country. It mentions cool things like literacy rates, gross population, cell phone users, ethnicity, and religious make up. The site talks about a countries government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. It has percentages, which can easily be put into bar graphs, pie charts, and other forms of representations geared for student research and reports.
The CIA Fact book has a wealth of information about all the world’s countries, and is done impartially and is a very good vehicle for critical analysis in the classroom. One thing I like to do is talk about the relationship between a countries gross domestic output/production, and its relation to literacy rates and mortality rates i.e., a industrialized country with a high GDP will most likely have a high literacy rate and low mortality rate, and vice versa for a country with a low GDP. Also, countries with little industry and generate their GDP through agriculture usually are called third world countries. There are many more comparisons you can make with all the information at your disposal.
All in all, the CIA Fact book is one of the best sources I have ever found for information about the countries of the world.
AnonymousThank you for the heads up about this website. WE just finished studying about China and I gave my students the website and some of them did research for extra credit on the site.
Cathy Rieder
AnonymousWe have been discussing Tiananmen Square in my seventh grade classroom. Much of our discussion stemmed from the pictures I showed my class after my visit there last spring. I think my students were really interested when I told them about actually walking there and in addition viewing Mao's tomb. I could not really believe I was there myself. I will direct them to thewebsiwte you have suggested to get more information.
Thank you, Cathy Rieder
Anonymoushttp://www.nps.gov/manz
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This website is a National Historic monument to the Japanese Americans that were put in concentration camps in California during World War 2. The actual site for the concentration camps is now a historical park near Death Valley California. During World War 2, over 10 thousand Japanese living in America were removed from their homes, forced into detention with all their possessions, and then put into concentration camps without due process of law, which violated their civil rights.. When the war switched to the pacific theater, America was fighting the Japanese, who became a formidable foe. When America committed to the war effort, it was thought that the sizeable Japanese American community in California could be a direct threat to the security of America. Through a wave of Nationalism and concern for the vulnerable western coastline, it was thought necessary to detain Japanese Americans for fear they might be loyal to the Emperor of Japan, and thus engage in subversion, espionage, or sabotage against the United States. Through executive order, Franklin Roosevelt decided to put the Japanese Americans in concentration camps. The Japanese refugees sued the United States government in a class action suit called Korematsu v. United States. The Supreme Court upheld the presidential powers exercised by Roosevelt, and the executive order remained in force.
The sad fact is, some of the Japanese, or their relatives who were incarcerated were in some cases 2nd and 3rd generation American citizens, and some fought for America against the Japanese. An example of this is the fighting 442nd regiment out of Hawaii, who fought bravely in the Pacific:
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210341/442nd/splash442nd.htm
It is true that the concentration camps like Manzanar were nothing like the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, however, America completely departed from its constitutional guarantees found in the bill of rights in its incarceration the Japanese Americans.
This website keeps alive the memory of those Japanese Americans interned in concentration camps, and is a useful site for historical and cultural information. There are tours offered, stuff for the kids, and lessons for teachers to teach what happened at Manzanar, and the competing rationales that fostered the climate during WW2. There are general information materials and a wealth of other information for greater understanding of Manzanar, and Japanese Americans during WW2.
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AnonymousThis website is called The East Asian WWW Virtual Library, and is sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Australian National University. It is a great resource website with a massive search engine with information about the East Asian Religions like Daoism, Buddhism and Shamanism, other libraries and journals from various universities throught the nation, list serves from various organizations, research institutions throughout the nation, and a world wide search engine which can take you anywhere you want. There is a virtual map, and when you click on it, it is suppose to give you information about the country you selected; however, I had trouble navigating that part of the website.
This is an excellent resource for teachers and students to use for general information, research papers, essays, and projects on anything Asian. This is excellent for teachers because there is a lot of material we can take to the classroom, and use for primary, secondary, and supplemental use.
Anonymoushttp://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#hyl
This web site is the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. This site boasts, and I quote, “the most extensive academic research collection of East Asian materials outside of Asia.” It truly is impressive because it has 4 major, comprehensive areas of research. First, library information, with 14 links to help students with maps on how to find the library to links to help students do their research. Second, various collections from almost every East Asian country as well as western writings about East Asia. Many of the collections were graciously donated by benefactors and interested parties, which adds to the richness of the library, and substantiates the libraries’s claim. Then, there is the conducting research section, which is there to aid anyone doing research or seeking general information about East Asia, and finally, a related link section that supports its card catalog, other Harvard libraries on campus, and East Asian resources at Harvard University, and around the world. It has amazing amounts of ancient literature on any East Asian country, as well as contemporary literature, photographic collections, and many other donated artifacts and publications that are at the users disposal. The site is only for Harvard students, faculty, staff and guests, but there is a good amount of information you can get without being a Harvard student.
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AnonymousThe Song Dynasty in China page is just one small resource that is part of the "Asia for Educatiors" website sponsored by Columbia University. The website itself has excellent resources on China, Japan, and Korea for teachers. I specifically like the "Song Dynasty" page because it is useful to both students and teachers. This page analyzes the Beijing Qingming Scroll. It starts with an explanation of the scroll itself, giving the reader a brief historical perspective on scrolls. The significant topics of the scroll such as: economic growth, commercialization, urbanization, intellectual life, and social changes are buttons at the top of the page. Within each topic are subtopics. For example, within "economic growth", there is the subtopic of "construction". An explanation of construction during the Song is provided along with a portion of the scroll. Four additional portions that depict construction may be seen by selecting buttons 1-4. For each scene of the scroll there is a caption explaining the scene. In addition to this detailed information, there are additional web links provided. This would make a great computer lab activity.
AnonymousToday we had an assembly from a music group based in San Francisco. The "Melody of China" group had instruments from China and performed for the uper grade classes (4th and 5th grade). It was a wonderful experience to see and hear the traditional instruments. Sounds from the north, east, and south of China were represented. Their website also offers information about their group. Once we came back to class I thought of an assignment for the computer lab where they would go to the website, look at the instrument that they enjoyed at the performance and write a journal entry about it, and perhaps even include them in a thank you letter to the group.
AnonymousI just read the Amnesty International report, "No One is Safe" (in China). I was shocked, especially by the forced abortions of unmarried pregnant women and by the report on the sources of organ transplants in China. Living in the United States, we take our freedom for granted so much that it is inconceivable that there are so many others who would give their life up for the freedom to speak their mind. This report is over ten years old. Due to globalization, China is now more accessible than ever. I'm wondering if there has been any legitimate attempt to rectify the human rights violations that are reported in the Amnesty International report. I just recently showed a DVD(China Revealed--Discovery Channel) on modern China to my classes. It discusses the One Child Policy with an explanation of its implementation and the social problems that it has caused. The family planning workers are depicted as sensitive, concerned people. Its discussed that learning the sex of the baby is illegal because some mothers might abort their babies because they don't want a girt.There are even huge billboards that are shown that are supposed to teach the Chinese people that baby girls are desireable. There are no scenes or mention of coercion. http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/web/asia-web.htm
AnonymousIt's interesting to note that the tiny shoes have become tourist souvenirs.
When she was last in Beijing, my wife, who's from northern China, was looking for gifts for our family - teapots, jadde, and the like - and took a lot of photographs to show me the various things on sale in a large open-air market (her trip was for spring festival, and of course it falls during the semester). Several stalls were stacked high with the small lotus-feet shoes.
The market is one which is a must-see for many foreign tourists and these were obviously a pretty hot item (I can't really see the Chinese being interested in buying the shoes). In fact, I began to wonder, given the cultural purge of the Cultural Revolution and the destruction of so many artifacts from the pre-Mao past, whether, in fact, these were recently-made copies - a bit like the faux Mao caps on sale everywhere tourists gather in Beijing?
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