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Anonymoushttp://www.live365.com/index.live
is more than just radio for pop, country, and classical. It also has traditional music of Japan, China, Thailand, and others. Great for heritage and world music. Of course you can also listen to modern music of these countries (like Thai rap) and have students compare their music with ours. You can save the link and play it on iTunes, or just play it straight from your web browser. Easy, and free.
AnonymousThe website Kids Web Japan at http://web-japan.org/kidsweb is a true gem. The graphics are student friendly and include many images that are geared toward kids. Students learn about the history of Japan and its culture by linking onto many sites. It also contains a virtual culture room that kids will find interesting. The best thing about the site is that it offers a tutorial on learning to speak to Japanese. Kids will have hours of fun on this website.
AnonymousHomework Center
The website can be found at http://www.factmonster.com/homework/hwsocstudies.html
I thought this website would be useful for all teachers. I plan to include it on my course description and I will write it on the front board when assigning homework.
It also includes a place for online references, such as tools to access an atlas, almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia. Not only that, it includes a place for students to improve their skills, such as writing, listening, research, and studying. This is a place where middle and high school students can access to help with all academic problems.
clay dubeSeveral of our study tours have included visits to Kunming, in China's Yunnan province. Participants in those tours and others interested in temples and Kunming will appreciate Jeffrey Taylor's narrated slide show for The Atlantic Monthly:
Anonymous[email protected] is a wonderful newsletter on geography published by National Geographic Society. It is a RSS service so it may be subscribed to for free. The first step in our lesson planning and with our children might be where is China and what continent is it on...? Of course this site is much more than this as geography is much more than mapping, There is much here and the site is easy to navigate.
AnonymousTanka and Haiku may be the most commonly taught but they are rarely taught it correctly. They are simply taught the syllable pattern and that's it.
Here are some really good websites that help out when teaching what the content of a Haiku is, because a haiku is not just form but content as well
http://www.ahapoetry.com.tanka.htm (this is a great site, it compares Haiku to Tanka)
http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haiku.htm (this site is a history of Haiku as well as form and examples)
AnonymousWant to know more about Christianity and its history and influence in Korea.
http://www.kimsoft.com/1997/xhist.htm
An interesting website that contains a quick overview of the history of Christianity in Korea. I found the web site to be informative and helpful when trying to understand how Christianity has become such a driving force in the lives of so many Koreans. The topic was mentioned in passing in our lecture on Korea, but I think it is worth looking inot further. While there are currently no standards addressing this topic, I think it is important to look at the Korean's acceptance of Christianity rather unique among the large East Asian powers. Check the site out--it's interesting.
AnonymousThe website http://www.cobblestoneonline.net is a great resource for articles about Asia, as well as many other topics. I stumbled accross this after checking out an issue of Calliope magazine from the Asia shelf in the children's section in my local library. Calliope is a children's magazine published by Cobblestone and covers the topic of world history. Each isssue has a focus on a specific topic. There are a large number of issues on topics related to Asia.
The website is a search engine that allows you to find articles from all of Cobblestone's children's magazines. For example, if you type in "Silk Road" in the text box you will see a list of all the articles from their magazines that pertain to that subject. When clicking on these links you are able to view the text from the article, but not the pictures that went along with it in the original article. The articles are printer friendly.
The search engine allows you to search by text, topic, subject (including a category on Asia), time period, or the specific magazine and/or date. The past few years have included editions on the topics of Shintoism, Confucius, The Silk Road, Tang Dynasy, Han Dynasty, Ashoka, Daoism, Spice Trade, Korea's Silla Dynasy, China: at the forefront of technology, Gupta of India, Song Dynasy of China, Qing Dynasty, Medieval Japan, and Akbar of India.
These articles are written for children, but are high-level enough to challenge many middle school students and introduce topics to high school students. Of course, they are more fun to read in the magazine format that includes pictures, but the website containing the articles is a great resource.
AnonymousI should also note that http://www.cobblestonepub.com has great teacher resources that relate to the articles from Cobblestone Publishing. When you go to the website click on "resources". Then under "Free Teacher's Guides" click on the magazine that contained articles on your desired topic. For most of the Asia related topics you will click on Calliope.
The teacher's guides offer lesson plans related to the topics discussed in the magazine. For example, if you click on "The Silk Road" you will find a lesson plan that builds on the articles from the magazine's (or web site's) edition on the Silk Road. The first part of this particular lesson is an introduction that invloves reading or referencing two articles and discussing some of the topics covered in them. The next part of the lesson includes guiding questions (what I like to call easy lesson plans for days I have a substitute) that have students refore back to an article and write responses. These questions relate to an article on Music's role in the Silk Road. The third step of the lesson is a creative writing assingment where students are directed to make postcards that describe the various places seen by one of the instruments described in the article. The fourth step of the lesson has students read articles about four Asian musicians who play instruments that were discussed in the previous article. They then work in groups to make a poster and newspaper article promoting an appearance of one of these musicians at their school. The fifth element of the lesson plan is an enrichment exercise that names two books that students could read that relate to music in Asia. They are instructed to then write their own legend, myth, or fantasy about a musical instrument.
There are many links on this web page that have lesson plans at the ready to build on many of the Asia-related issues of Calliope magazine. As a reminder, the articles from that magazine can be found online at http://www.cobblestoneonline.net
Anonymoushttp://www.whatkidscando.org/china_site/index.html is a great kid-friendly website. I would feel perfectly comfortable allowing elementary aged students to browse this site independently. It is easy to use and gives great visual images.
The topic of the website is Life in New China: Images and Words from Beijing Youth. In the "Our School" section you can view and listen to audio slideshows featuring high school students from Beijing talking about sports, school uniforms, pressures, studying English, daily schedules, arts, lunchtime, and friendship.
The Beijing Tour has photo slideshows with captions that show Tienanmen Square, Wangfujing Square, Houhai Lake, and a migrant neighborhood. It is interesting to see these different aspects of Beijing.
My favorite feature of this website is the "Side-by-Side". This has two pictures side by side that show contrasts of Beijing such as traditional and modern buildings, wealth and poverty, and the old-fashioned way of life with new trends. It is a very powerful tool to use when teaching students that there are many varied aspects of life in China.
Anonymoushttp://www.populationeducation.org is a really good resource for ready-made lessons on popluation. The website focuses on world population (not specifically Asia) but it is a wealth of information on the many influences population has on lifestyle, food supply, the environment, and much more. With population being a big issue in Asia these activities can be very beneficial to the education we provide on Asia. This website has great ACTIVITIES you can do with your students of all ages.
Once on the website (a branch of populationconnection) click on "Teaching Materials and Tools". You can then search by concept: the basics of population, environmental connections, people and society, and population dynamics. You can also clock on "All Materials by Title" for a list and brief description of all their lessons.
A trainer from Population Connection came to one of my college social studies methods classed and conducted a workshop on population. I can still clearly remember the activities we did and have adapted them to my students at various grade levels. I highly recommend the "Food for Thought" lesson where students are able to see how many people populate each continent and how the world's food supply is (unevenly) distributed.
AnonymousI'm sure I'm not the first to come across askasia.org, but I found it to be a great website. There are sections for teachers, students, and kids. I think my 6th grade students would enjoy some of the features of the kids section, although it may be a bit primary for them. The student section has some things that may be a bit advanced for many 6th grade students but also has features that would suit them well. I found myself enjoying the "China Game" where a sarcastic dragon presents questions about Asia and a map of Asian cities is the game board. I think students of all ages (adults included) would enjoy it. I also found interest in the "Japanese Onomatopoeia Game". I also enjoyed reading though the other components of the website, but coming back to the China game, where upon traveling the entire game board I won the everlasting respect of the sarcastic dragon.
Anonymoushttp://www.usd267.com/TL%20Student%20Pages/6th%20grade%20SS%20resources.html
This is an absolutely amazing wesbite. This is a website created by a middle school for sixth grade. It is actually a website for the 6th garde Ancient Civilations course, and thus includes information for the many different civilzations. I have looked online quite a bit for resources that I can use to teach my students with, and this might very well be one of the best. It is extremely organized and very easy to use. There is a section for other websites to refer to, worksheets that you can use, such as quizzes and maps, lesson plans covering many of the sixth grade standards, interactive sites for those teachers whos students have access to compters. In addtion it has fun webquests, and a ection for other, that includes items liek stories, folktales, and poems. While there is not a ton a to of background information that could support a teacher with additional knowledge, it is a great place for a beginning teacher to go, or one who needs just a few more items.
Anonymoushttp://www.mohonasen.org/dmslib/ancient_china.htm
This is another great website for Ancient China. This one is also created by a middle school. Although it does not have the luxury of ready to print worksheets, it is organized very neatly for anyone teaching Ancient China. Initially it offers linbks to other wbsites with information about daily life and other general information about china. Below that it actually lists different websites that you or a student can go to into different categories. These categories are those that are handy for middle aged students. the categories listed are food, marriage, fetivals, clothing, eduction and rural life. Teh reason I liek this website is primarily due to the categories. This website would be helpful when comparing China to another civilzation.
Anonymoushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
Although wikipedia is not the most acclaimed website, I like using it as a quick go-to source. Because I have an elementary credential, I do not exactly have expert knowledge on China. I like this website, one because it pretty much goes into every aspect of China, from dynasties, religions to modern day China. I also like it because it has links continuously throughout the website allowing you to click on a key term as soon as you run across a word you want more information about. It is set up very well, and is extremely easy to use. The basic info is all right there though, and you dont have to go to different links, or figues out what different icons mean. It doesnt go into great detail, but is sure to cover youor basic questions on China.