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AnonymousURL: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china_for_kids.htm
Conents: Printables, printables, PRINTABLES!!! Some of the sections:
1. Learn about China
2. Maps of China
3. Chinese Games
4. Olympics
Ease of Use: Just make sure to turn off your pop-up blocker, and the site is easy to get through.
Use with students: A very good site to find lots of easy to use printables. Most of my students are lower level esl level (level 2 or 3), so this site would be a great way to find worksheets that are very very visual. Check out this site for some very kid friendly worksheets and printables about China!!
AnonymousContents: Colorful, visual website for kids. The sections in it are:
1. World History
2. History Games
3. Historical Quotes
Ease of use:
Once you click on world history, it says "What in World History would you like to learn about?"
From there, students can read short concise summaries of different periods of Asian history. There are some good visuals of both famous sites as well as maps to orient students.
+++BEST PART = The best part of the site is "History Games". There are 5 different games that make students want to learn about history. The games are all multiple choice, but there are aliens and ships involved, and even music and sound effects.
Use in Class: YES YES YES. This site can be used as a "reward": "if you finish quitely, you will be able to play "history games" on the computer. The site is made specifically for kids, so it is very very easy to use. Lots of visuals and sounds.
AnonymousThere is a beautiful, albeit tragic story of Kim Soo-Im, a beautiful, educated Korean woman of the elite, liberated, new generation. She was married to a Korean, who fled to North Korea during the war. She had an affair with a U.S. Army Lt. General John R. Hodge, which produced a son, Won-Il Kim. The tides turned, and she was accused by the U.S. as a spy, whereupon her Lt. Gen. left for his family in the U.S., denouncing her.
It is worth reading, because the son is now in the process of clearing her name. He lives in northern California. It is a story that fits in with Ms. Fischler's information, some point similar, some in stark contrast. A Korean director is going to make a movie of the story.
In any case, there are pictures that are available for viewing.
NOTE: THIS IS ON CNN's NEWS PAGE - YOU MAY WANT TO SEE IT RIGHT AWAY, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL BE THERE. OTHERWISE, YOU CAN TRY GOOGLING HER NAME, THE GENERAL'S OR THE SON'S.
>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/myth.miss.kim.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest
[Edit by="smontano on Sep 8, 8:31:38 PM"]I just checked this site again and it's still there - I will bring copies of the article for any who would like one when we see each other Oct. 4th. I think this would be an excellent story to illustrate how a country could become a character in a story.[/Edit]
AnonymousIf there was a blog on Korea this would be one to choose:
#1 http://wordpress.com/tag/korean-culture/
The guest are from many places an add interesting topics or links to the issues. Take for example the concern on examinations for high school students. It was titled: "What is stress?" and it explains the intense atmosphere. It is life as we don't know it. For some students these exams might determine wether they will be a blue-collar worker for life.
This website could allow students an opportunity to make comments or follow certain blogs throughout a project.
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AnonymousDoes your school compare with EAST ASIAN schools?
Here is a GREAT link to find an answer:
http://www.shambles.net/allschools/
It provides actual links to selected schools in East Asia. The countries are listed along with the names of school. As I search through the list of schools, it amazed me on how 'charter' like they seem. Could this be of any help for our struggling schools?
AnonymousThis website allows students to access many powerpoints on facts about eastern Asia.
The purpose for this site is to give background information on one particular country.
#2 http://continents.pppst.com/asia.html%5BEdit by="mceballos on Aug 21, 12:02:51 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousMore useful sites:
#3 http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
This site provides a remarkable interactive appeal to understanding all the continents.
It’s a simple click on the questions provided. This is a perfect tool to prepare any lesson about a certain East Asian culture.
# 4 http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/socialstd/Asian_Bookmarks.html
For those who enjoy the social studies, here is a list of sites. It’s great for teachers and students. You can select from economic, population and the like.
#5 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/asia/china/
This site explores the many cultures of China and includes user friendly illustrations for students to follow. It can benefit lessons on textile (silkworm), current events, (Olympic) and language (signs and numbers).
AnonymousThis Particular Website has already been a great asset to my teaching. Not being a Chinese speaker I have always found it challenging to pronounce things in Pinyin correctly. The institute and Clay helped me a lot this summer, but of course I cannot pull them out of my back pocket when I am planning. This website allows you to type in the pinyin words, and it gives you a definition as well as a pronunciation you can hear. Although this will not make me fluent in Chinese at least I can make an effort to pronounce things correctly, and hence pass this on to my students. It has also given me historical people's names I typed in as well. Here is the link: http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php
AnonymousThis is really fantastic! I went to the website and tried Huang He and then Wu Zetian (the first Empress of China during the Tang) and it was great to be able to practice the tones... in private. This will also be very helpful to my fellow world history teachers at my school. Thanks for sharing this discovery!
Betse Amador
clay dubeI also posted this information in the Human Rights Workshops forum.
Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies has created an essential web resource focusing on the killing that took place during the years the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. It's an extensive site, including information from the 2001 tribunal, several databases, bibliographies, and maps.
Anonymoushttp://www.maps.com/map.aspx?pid=11040
This link will hook you into various maps of China instead of using texts or atlases. Go to this site and walk students visually through the geography of China. Maps can be used by any level student. You can have them follow the silk road or allow them to know the topography of the land. Have them add color to a hand out map or trace their own trade routes. A nice site.
Anonymoushttp://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism%20in%20China.htm
Here you will find a one page write up so that you may share some background on Buddhism with your students or you can hone up quickly on skills you already have but need a quick refresher.
Anonymoushttp://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
This site gives an ntensive background for you or your students. This site would be useful in grades 9-12. The readability is a bit high for lower levels students but a nice site for the upper levels. This site can be a student or teacher resource.
AnonymousMy approach to 6th and 7th grade history has been to tie history to myth via the hero tale. Nothing else so clearly elucidates what a culture thinks the ideal should be and how it is modified by our common humanness. Rome has Aeneas, Islam Muhammad, Persia Sohrab and Rustem, India The Mahabharatta and The Ramayana,Western Europe has El Cid, Roland, the Arthurian cycle, and my favorite Beowulf, China Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, and Japan....well that was the problem. I used folk tales like "The Crane Wife" or the life of Miramoto Mushashi, but surely a society like Japan had an epic. And there are: The Tale of Genji is of epic proportions and so is Heike Monogotari but they are not really epic. That's where the monomyth of Joseph Campbell comes in. In Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell explains the heroic epic through the hero's journey. This analysis forms the basis of the monomyth cycle and the Berkeley ORIAS seminars on history through literature. At their site I found the journey of Yamato Takeru in the Kojiki. This is a marvelous site to visit if you want to explore the use of heroic epics in the classroom. Here is the address:http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/index.htm
AnonymousAfter posting about the monomyth and the use of epics in pre-modern history, I started noodling around in the ORIAS archives and stumbled upon "Travelers: Cultural Interaction in the Medieval World." Those who enjoyed the seminar discussions of Marco Polo and Zheng He will find interesting material here. There are also links to other travelers to China including Ibn Battuta and John of Monte Corvino; conspicuously absent is John Mandeville, who may or may not have existed or may or may not have told the truth. For the 7th grade teacher, classic tales of Africa travel, Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta, can be found here. Some really fascinating accounts and travel writers in the medieval world. Try the main site http://orias.berkeley.edu/travelers.HTM and then explore "Travel Links."