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Another website I found was Asian Educational Media Service--http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las
This site helps you locate materials so we can use to teach about the different people and cultures of Asia. They also have reviews of their educational resources. The resources are evaluated for content, educational usefulness and more. They also have information where you can buy or rent the materials. This would be a great one stop site.
May

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This next website I found isn't necessarily something you can use with your students but if offers servcies and programs where you can visit different Asian countries. Crane House (The Asia Institute, Inc) is a nonprofit Asian cultural center where their focus is education. The website is http://www.cranehouse.org/
Although they do offer workshops such as slides,videos, storytelling to children about some Asian countries, they are however located in Louisville. I only like that they offer a program called Summer Teaching in Asia. Apparently, their program sponsors American teachers to teach conversational English and professional training for Asian teachers of English.
We qualify based on their requirements: classroom teaching experience, certification, cooperative spirit, flexibility in outlook. The only part I'm not sure about is taking the 5-6 sessions since we are not in the area. However, I did email them to see if they offer the summer program every summer and see if we can do the orientation part online. I will let you know what they say. I think this would be a great opportunity to visit some Asian countries.
May

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What is a great way for students to learn about a different country? Since we can't offer our students the opportunity to travel to the various Asian countries, we can however expose them to Asian culture by having them communicate with children their age from those countries. With the latest communication method...EMAIL. I found the website http://www.epals.com/community/---it is a Classroom Exchange where we can integrate e-pals in our curriculum. Don't worry....there is a section where we can create emails accounts for our children and MONITOR their communication to make sure their messages are safe and appropriate. I am so excited....the minute I start back to school I will definitely create a an account for my class! You can create up to 35 monitored email accounts...it is afterall totally free, easy, and quick to use (accourding to what the website says)!
May

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The fifth website I am reviewing is Educator's Corner--http://www.fpa.org/info-url_nocat2406/info-url_nocat.htm
You have to register but is is free. The Educator's Corner on Foreign Policy Association's website provides lists of conferences, events, teacher exchanges, lesson plans, grants and teacher forums for educators to network on global education. The website also serves as an introduction into FPA's Great Decisions program - textbooks that help teachers incorporate current world issues into the classroom. This is great for teachers and students concerned with global issues. We definitely need to educate our students and ourselves on the global issues and international affairs. I would definitely use this site myself.
May

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One website that I found some useful information about Ding Ling is:

http//www.wooster.edu/Chinese/courses/chineseyouth/writer

Ding Ling is the author of "Miss Sophie's Diary" The website listed above basically provides a paragraph summary of Ding Ling's life. There is also a picture of her. This web page provides a short introduction to Ding Ling that would help students become familiar with who she was. I think that it could be used as either a handout which the class would read, highlight the important parts, and discuss. It is essential that students are given a background of author. This short paragraph illustrates why Ding Ling created such a revolutionary character for her time. It also shows what was going on in China. Another way to use this would be to have students go on a scavenger hunt to find information about Ding Ling. The teacher could provide each group a web address that they had to find on the internet. Then they could find it and "teach" the rest of the class the important information.

[Anonymous]

Another website that I found some information on Ding Ling is

http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/course/c503/dl.htm

On this web page, I found an outline that was broken into three parts. It had a biography of Ding Ling's life, her creative development, and also some information about a short story she wrote called "When I Was In Hsia Village." I found this outline to be extremely useful to me because it really gave some great background that I could share with my students when we read "Miss Sophie's Diary." I found it really interesting that she was influenced by her mother who left the family to become a teacher. Also her husband was killed as one of the five martyrs with Rou Shi. She was under house arrest from 1933-36, but managed to escape. I could use this outline for myself to give a mini-lecture or even pass it out to the students so they could follow along. To me, it is important for students to know the background of a writer. It helps them to better understand the story and also why the characters are the way they are. This outline would help my students understand how repressive China was towards Ding Ling and maybe this is why she created Sophie.

[Anonymous]

The one aspect about China that my students always have a hard time understanding is the idea of honoring the elders or filial piety. The idea of honoring parents because they gave you love and caring is a strange concept to teenagers who are always mad at mom and dad. I wanted to find some more information about filial piety on the web that would be useful to bring to my classroom discussion.

The following website: http://writing.lantenengo.com/filialpiety.php provides six paragraphs about the concept.

I think that this article would be extremely useful to introduce high school students to the concept. I think that they could read it for homework and then as a class we could discuss it. Several points in this article would make great journal topics for the kids to respond to. I wold have them notice that a truly loyal child continues to be filial to a parent even after they are dead. Also the idea that a filial child who honors their parents will also honor the ruler. I think that these two ideas would generate a lively discussion.

At the end of the website, it also provides some books that might be useful as resources for teachers. They are "Chinese Civilization" by Patrricia Buckley Ebrey, "Filial Piety" by Charlotte Ikels, and "Chinese Filial Piety" by Kenneth Traylor. Your local library will probably have them.

[Anonymous]

Another excellent resource on the web for filial piety is the following website.

http://www.wsu.edu;8080/-wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader

This website provides examples of filial piety form the 14th century. It provides a brief overview that I think would be useful with students because it talks about a woman's responsibility to her husband's family. Then it gives six short stories or example of filial piety. I think this would be a wonderful assignment for my kids. I would break them into six groups and have each group read a story. They would have to identify how this story shows filial piety and write a paragraph discussing it. They could present their findings to the class. Another thing I really like about this website is that poses the question to compare a western fairy tale that involves children's relationships with parent and compare them to the examples on the website. I think that would make a great journal question.

This website provides excerpts from the book "Reading the World, Volume 1" edited by Paul Brians.

[Anonymous]

Another website that I found on Filial Piety has an article called: "Filial Piety in America" by James Huang.

It can be found at the following website: http://www.taoism.net/articles/xiao.htm
It seems to be a plug for a foundation of Taoism.

It focuses on how American teens are "rebellious, intractable, and pretentious" and focuses on the teenagers from generation X. This made me chuckle because I am almost 32, a proud member of generation X and I didn't know that I wasn't honoring my parents. I also didn't know that I was still a teenager.

This article takes the view that American teenagers do not know how to honor their elders. It further states that this is a characteristic of America in general. I think that this article would spark a lively debate in my American Literature class where I focus on the importance of the individual. This could be used in conjunction with "Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan or even "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakasuki Houston. I think it would be a great into. I would have the students read this article and then write a letter in response to the author. Probably a business letter, so I could teach them that skill that the need on the CHSEE.

[Anonymous]

One website that I checked out was from the resources of the asia institute website. The subsection was called ASIASTATS. This is a great website if any students who want to get a snap shot picture of basic economic and quality of life in Asia. I would have students pay particular attention to life expectancy, population density, literacy rate and ofcourse yearly income per capita. Because the entire website is in a table format, it can make a great connection to a math lesson in bar graphs or pie graphs.

Yoonsung

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From Belinda:

http://www.nwf.org/productions/indatiger gives information about the film "India Kingdom of the Tiger" which I checked out from the Thousand Oaks Library. A synopsis of the film, showing dates, bibliography of the main character is included. A teacher can use this site to preview the contents of the film. It covers more of the relationship between hunter and his adventure in India than the science of the Tiger, but students can get more of that information from the useful links on the website.

If I use this film in the classroom, I will definitely offer this website as a link to "Learn above and beyond the requirements" for credit.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/tiger/humaninteraction.cfm gives information on the Tiger in India especially threats and recovery status. This site offers a timeline from the 1800s-1995 on threats to Tiger populations and information about recovery efforts. The site discusses ecotourism in Nepal and the Interational Trade Sanction as well as how poaching is a strong temptation due to the black markets for Asian demand for Tiger parts in Chinese medicine. I could use this site for environmental policy studies and in my Animal Unit in Biology. I think the students would appreciate the information from this site better if they can compare the policies of other large mammals closer to home in California (coyotes, black bear, racoons).

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http://www.riceromp.com/teachers/lessonContent.cfm

I found this site by searching for "rice, asia, botany" on google. It immediately gives you ideas for 4th grade Science and has links to Math, Social Studies, Science, Health and games for grades K-12. For Science, it offers basic information on rice anatomy, ecology, and nutrition. In the 7th grade list, it gives information on how rice farmers and winter waterfowl help each other and why it's important to eat rice. The site is developed by the US Rice Producers Association. I think it is lacking in diagrams, charts, and pictures. It is mostly question and answer format, which is good if you pose the question and have students find the answer on the website. It is easy to navigate but I would probably use 5th grade levels for my 7th graders.

[Anonymous]

http://www.oldwayspt.org/pyramids/asian/p_asian.html

This website contains information about the Asian food pyramid, as well as links to Latin and Meditteranean Food Pyramids. Using this page will be interesting for 7th graders in Health class because it validates traditional foods from different cultures and gives guidelines for healthy, balanced amounts of the major food groups. The Asian Food Pyramid page gives the diagram, characteristics, and follows some general trends of food intake in Asia (trade and technology has increased the prevelence of junk food, for example, in India).

I will definitely use this page as a resource for Health class. I will show the different pyramids and have my own students construct their pyramids according to the specific foods that they consume. I may also incorporate this page as a link on my webpage.

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http://www.paperfolding.com/diagrams

This is just a fun site for oragami diagrams. It's got hundreds of diagrams and you can list them by degree of difficulty. For science, I am always on the look for different ways to model ecosystems. Oragami animals and plants can be used for biomes. The first page has all the good links plus fast links to diagrams for things like: butterfly, barn swallow, frog on a lily pad, and hummingbird. I would want to explain the significance of oragami as well as demonstrate one of the simpler animals. This would just be a great website for an art activity in science: something the kids need more of.
Belinda

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