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The National Palace Museum has great images of Chinese art work. This is a great site for students to examine Chinese art. They can compare and contrast it with art from other Asian countries and then examine it to see how China influenced the cultures of so many Asian people groups. The art work here is amazing!

Here is the link.

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_01.htm

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Greetings,

The Today in Asian History UCLA CEAS site is a fun site for both teachers and students. You can click on a date and see what happened in Asian History on that date. Teachers can use this fun almanac by connecting students to the day's lesson by posting what happened on that day on the board. Students will get a kick out of such trivia and facts.

Here is the link

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/thisweek/index.htm

John Yamazaki[Edit by="jyamazaki on Jun 18, 4:31:55 PM"][/Edit]

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Greeting,

The China the Beautiful website is a user friendly site, useful for both teachers and students. Simply click on a topic and up comes information and picutres. The have all sorts of topics that pertain to China. This is a great resource for research and for fun.

Here is the Link.

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

John Yamazaki

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USEFUL FOR: Language Art 8 Holt's Literature and Language Arts, Chaper 4

In the eighth grade Holt Literature and Language Arts text, Chapter 4 on theme has a chapter from Sone's Nisei Daughter aboout her internment experiences at Camp Harmony in Washington state during World War II. Inspired by his grandmother's diaries, award winning and highly acclaimed artist Roger Shimomura in his collection In Shadow of My Country has powerfully interpreted the internment experience. This collection makes a great addition to Camp Harmony and presents another avenue for exploring the concepts of theme, symbolism, irony, etc. with the students.

link: http://www.flomenhaftgallery.com/artists/roger_shimomura_artist_page.htm

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USEFUL FOR LANGUAGE ARTS 8
On my last posting I reported on a website that carried Roger Shimomura's art depicting his families internment years as Japanese-Americans during WWII. The following link offers a dramatic video interview with the artist about his collections: A Japanese American Remembers and In the Shadow of My Country. Again, this would certainly enrich the eighth grade understanding of theme as presented in Sone's Camp Harmony in the Holt text Literature. This is a particularly dramatic, even award winning, website that would appeal to eighth graders with its pulsating music and contempporary graphics.

link: http://www.densho.org/learning/shadow/module/shadow.html

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For: Language Arts 5-8

In Language Arts 8 we read Sone's Camp Harmony which is an autobiographical account of her experience in an internment camp during WWII. Another autobiographcal account that gives a slightly different perspective is Yushiko Uchida's The Bracelet. This website offers clear, straight forward lesson plans for this short story, including interesting activities and hellpful references. I selected it for his user friendly format.

Link: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/YOSHIL1.html

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Whether students and teachers are on the elementary, middle school or high school level there is some very helpful hands on material posted on http://www.newton.mec.edu. From Chinese Folk and Fairy Tales to instructions on how to write your own Folk Tale as well as Traditional Chinese nursery rhymes and poetry assistance. This site, while elementary in nature, can be a good place to start, if you wish to allow students to try their hand at writing some East Asian themed creative work.

Writing poetry and folk tales - http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Language%20Arts%20Table%20Cont..html
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USEFUL FOR LANGUAGE ARTS 6-8

Many of my female students have raved about the book Chinese Cinderella by Adelline Yen Mah. If this were included in a literary circle or independent reading list, this website gives some useful background and great discussion questions. The site also contains a menu that gives some effective book group icebreakers and activities.

http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-chinese.html

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One of the foremost experiences of our USC China Institute Field Study was attempting to walk the Great Wall. This experience fascinated the high school kids and many of them made reference to it in their free verse poetry. The site http://www.thechinaguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html was a great resource to give students an actual taste of the experience of "being there yourself." No plug in's are required. Check it out! An excellent first hand website for students on any level - high school, elementary or middle school. Students will have a chance to experience not only walking the Great Wall on this site but virtual tours of The Bund, Shanghai, shopping and other tourist attractions. Chinese money is posted and many other aspects of China - up close and with brilliant photography. What a find! 😀

Walk the Great Wall - http://www.thechinaguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html[Edit by="spavelkagregg on Jun 21, 11:25:57 AM"][/Edit]

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In assigning a Response to Literature paper on China, many of the female students chose to research foot binding and traditional roles of mothers and daughters in China. This particular website was given as a reference for research to give students some prompts for their thesis statements. It proved to be very helpful in that regard.

Women and Confucianism - http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson3.html

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During the Spring semester in the Freshman English high school curriculum, Greek and Roman Mythology is explored. This website, which takes a look at the monkey spirit in Chinese mythology would be a way of extending the mythology unit beyond its European borders and branching out into East Asian mytholgoical ties. The web site is complete with background, vocabulary lessons and writing assignments. A good add.

Monkey King Chinese Mythology - http://www.mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/myth/edtech.html

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An interesting idea for teachers who are attempting to convey an overall view of China artisitcally, economically and historically. This site is a detailed approach to a classroom activity which allows students to take on the roles of a business investor, museum curator, religious leader, human rights activist, environmental activist or United States Senator. Each role is assigned a specific goal to achieve. For instance, the role of the business investor is to encourage economic growth. There are instructions and challenges provided for each role, so the student can see the issues they are up against in China today. My students love hands on activities, especially those who have short attention spans. This type of activity and lesson plan gets them involved and really brings home the lesson first hand.

Take On A Role in China - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html

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Re: Useful for middle school language arts

Amy Tan's short story "Rules of the Game" (actually a chapter from the Joy Luck Club)is not only interesting for eighth graders, it serves as a great vehicle for teaching the narrative structure. Essentially about how the game of chess gave the story's narrator invisible strength, it appeals both to girls and guys. This suggested website has 20 useful links for the teacher, ranging from historical context to essay topics specific to the story. After reading this story many students become avid readers of Tan's excellent novels.

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Re: Useful for language arts and social studies middle school

This website gives the students access to myths from around the world including China, Japan, and Southeasts Asia. It gives the text of a short myth, followed by brief background information on the specific culture's mythology. The website is easy to navigate so that an assignment in comparing two different culture's myths could be efficiently completed by the middle school student.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/japan.htm

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I just got done going through most of the PDF files on the CD given to us at the last seminar. In addition to some of the great power point presentations, the CD included a file called "From Silk to Oil" and describes the history and transformations of the historic route. What I found most interesting was the history and implications of the China's development and future need for oil. The fact that China's need for oil will dramatically increase over the years is illustrated in the chart on page 207. It shows that China's oil needs will grow from 164 to 506 million tonnes between 1995 and 2020. Coal needs will grow from 664 to 1416 million tonnes between 1995 and 2020. And, even though hydro power increases modestly during the same time period, there is only a projected 3 million tonne increase (from 0 to 3 million tonnes) in other renewable energy sources. I have heard many times that China's growth and need for oil will, and for the most part, already is, competing with the U.S.'s demands for oil. However, it is unfortunate that China does not utilize more renewable sources of energy to feed it's growing demand for power. But, you can say the same thing about our own country too!

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