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AnonymousInternet Guide for Chinese Studies
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
It is a website which catalogs resources such as:
religion, geography, economy, society, politics, literature, law, education, music, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
Very useful for both educators and students!
Another good site is WWW-VL: History of China
http://vlib.iue.it/history/asia/China/index.html
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AnonymousThis website is a good start for those wishing to research the art of Asia.
It is called Art History
http://wit.combe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
It covers art from all over the world, but you can access Asian art by either clicking on a specific area or location ie. China, Korea, etc. or by clicking on a particular time period.
If you click by location you will find examples of homes, temples, shrines, etc.
If you click by time period you will find a brief explanation of the art of that time period followed by pictures of paintings, calligraphy, vases, boxes, etc.
This website also links to many museums.
Good site for both educators and students.
AnonymousWhen I returned from Christmas break I felt I had to teach my students about the disastrous tsunami that devastated South Asia. Even though it was not part of the items on our trimester map or on the California Social Studies Standards, such a tragedy could not be ignored and merited attention.
The first day back from break I began to talk to the students about the disaster. I had newspapers at the ready for each student. My words, the articles and the limited photos on the newspapers didn't phase the students. Some seemed sad, but many seemed apathetic and disinterested.
The next day I ran across a great website that shows before and after satellite photos of some of the affected regions (primarily Banda Aceh and Meubolah in Indonesia). I hooked up my laptop to a LCD projector and showed the class the entire set of pictures.
Every students eyes and mouth were wide open in awe. Their apathy and lack of interest had converted to shock and sympathy. What my words, the LA Times and photo journalists had failed to do was done by the pictures on this website. Every single student was interested, engaged and concerned.
What was most interesting to me was that the first question asked to me was "What can we do to help?" I have to admit that I did not expect a 7th grader to ask this question before asking "Can this happen here?" or "Why does this happen?", etc. My students asked if we could collect money for the relief effort, and a small amount of money was collected and donated to UNICEF by our school.
Many of you do not have the time to donate to teach about the Tsunami disaster. If you do please check out the website so that you too have a better idea of the devastation. To those that cannot, please know that pictures make such an impact on how students understand things and how much they become involved and interested in the lesson.
The site can be found at the following address:
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/
AnonymousIn doing research for my website, I was searching several places on the web. I fond this paricularly site great for information on East Asian mythology. I spent a lot of time investigating other topics. Like most encyclopedias, articles are not very indepth. But the items have links to definitions and other items of interest. It is FREE and useful to students.
AnonymousIn Celebration of the Silk Road
http://www.score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/silkroad/
"In Celebration of the Silk Road" is a detailed lesson plan for creating a
Silk Road Museum. The students are instructed how to create their self-standing
three fold display board.
The students work as a team. The roles in the team include thatof a historian, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a cartographer, and a graphic designer.
The students are given a list of other web resources to help provide them with
primarily background information about the Silk Road and artifacts from different
regions.
This owuld be a great activity for helping students understand the Silk Road from
a different perspective.
The appropriate grade would be 6th or 7th, but could easily be adapted for
other grades with some modification.
AnonymousThe Silk Road
Mapping Acitivy: Tracing the Silk Road
The students trace various routes of merchants across the Silk Road.
What is interesting in this web site is that the students can mark their maps
with different colored pencils based on what the caravans were selling.
I thought this web site used basic information form SPICE (Stanford Program on
International and Cross Cultural Education) in describing the Silk Road. It is easy
for students to understand.
Also, in the description of the Silk Road journey many of the hardships are
outlined which also helps the students. The background information also
discusses why one route would be selected over another.
The Silk Road is dividied into three different sections and explain what was traded
in each area.
At this site there are additional web resources and Internet Links to various other sites
concerning the Silk Road.
This would be a good activity with students in the 6th and 7th grades.
The explanation of the Silk Road from SPICE is incredible. A great deal of information
and easy to understand.
AnonymousThe Three Doctrines & Legalism
for Ancient China
www. members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Behavior.html1#Top
Lesson One includes the following
The Three Doctrines & Legalishm
Buddhist, Taoist, Confucianist, Legalist
How would each behave when faced with a problem?
The students are given a Handout of Selected Questions and then have to figure out how a
Buddhist, Taoist, Confucianist, or Legalist would deal with the problem.
One thing that I thought was positive about this lesson plan was many of the questions were
relevant to questions or concerns the students would have today.
The follow-up homework is also good. A student goes home and asks a family member a few questions and based on his or her response tries to determine what philosophy he or she is following.
I think this would be a very successful lesson plan for helping students understand the various philosophies.
AnonymousEconomy and Geography Lessons
The Silk Route
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade3/Silk_Route.html
This web lesson on the Silk Road helps students understand the role
that geography played in the various routes.
The students gain an idea of what was traded along the way and
also which individuals were part of the Silk Road.
This lesson plan also review over Natural Resources,
Captial Resources, and Human Resources.
It divides the goods tht were traded into wants and needs and helps
students identify between the two.
There are also some very thought provoking questions which allow students
to try and understand why specific routes were selected and how it has to deal
with the issue of trade.
The final application allows students to look at a physical map and identify
the physical barries that might have hampered trade between various cities
in the United States.
I thought this lesson plan was a very good resource for explaining that role
that geography can play on economics or trade along the Silk Road.
AnonymousHow Shall WE Rule China?
Role Play
http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/1000047.htm#r
This lesson plan was developed my Jean Johnson, New York Univeristy.
There are four basic objectives for this lesson plan
1. Studnets will understand the attitudes Mongols had about thier Chinese and how the Chinese viewed these nomadic invaders.
2. Students will analyze the options the Mongols had as they established their rule over the Chinese people.
3. Students will anlayze what relationship the Mongols established with the Chinese, how the Mongols governed, from what political center and what their policies were toward land use in China.
4. Students will analyze in what ways nomadic invaders might change once they settled down and began to rule urbanized and agricultural people.
This is a highly detailed lesson plan that poses many questions of great depth. I think these questions help students to understand the difference between the Chinese and the Mongols.
In the role playing activity the various roles are extremely detailed which I think would be an asset for the students participating in the discussion.
I think this lesson plan would work well fo an honors seventh grade class and could also be modified for regular classes. Even in reviewing over the lesson there was an immense amount of information packed into this web lesson plan that I found amazing.
This is a very informative and high quality lesson plan without a lot of fluff.
AnonymousThis website was prepared by Derk Boddle for the Committee on Asiatic Studies in American Education. This is a good source of background material for teachers. Unfortunately, the grayish-brown background makes the text hard to read. Because it is single-spaced, with few illustrations it would not be suitable for most young readers. While much of the content is written in an interesting, narrative style, the vocabulary and phrasing is generally too advanced for most middle school students.
However, there are many interesting facts, and fascinating references to influences on other cultures. For example, the Romans' appetite for silk and other "Asiatic luxuries" led to a huge trade imbalance that may have been an important factor in bringing down that empire. Also, the historical information is written in a lively manner. In discussing the historian in whose work is the earliest reference to tea, the writer notes, "This historian had the misfortune to hold office under an emperor notorious for his drunken sprees." If the reader can get past the rather dreary appearance of this site, he or she will find some useful and surprisingly colorful content to spice up thier lessons.
The address for this site is http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/inventions_gifts.htm#porcelain
Anonymoushttp://afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/art/douglas.htm
The text of this site is reprinted from a brochure for the Douglas Dillon Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
All text, single spaced, with one or two pargagraphs each on the handscroll, hanging scroll, silk fan, folding fan, and album paintings. Given its origin, its not surprising that the level of writing is more suitable for teachers, and that the amount of information provides only a cursory outline of the subjects. Though the site's title would lead one to expect a far more thorough description of the topics, unfortunately that is not the case. Pass this one by. However, this site does contain links to two other sites that are quite good. Details in my next two reviews.
Anonymouswww. metmuseum.org/explore/Chinese/html_pages/elegant3.htm
This site is also produced by the Metropolitan Museum o fArt. It is a terrific site for both secondary students and teachers. Its homepage is a menu showing seven different paintings, each with a question commonly asked about Chinese paintings, such as "Why didn't the artist use any color in this painting?" Clicking on the painting takes you to another page which shows other similar paintings, and clearly explains the answer to the question.
This is a wonderful introduction tho the basics of Chinese painting, and can get students comfortable with the chartacteristics of Chinese painting.
Anonymoushttp://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm
This site was prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and several assistants, and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Freeman Foundation, and Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
This is an incredible resource. There are a wide range of topics and each is covered in depth with specific details described in a clear, easily understood manner. Along with the descriptions are numerous beautifully clear photos of objects and places, and wonderul illustrations from the appropriate time periods. The table of contents includes; geography, ancient tombs, Buddhism, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and graphic arts. Any one of these will give students plenty to explore, as they each cover numerous side topics related to the main subject.
For example, clicking on home shows a menu of homes as buildings, and the interior designs and furnishings. Clicking on the homes as buildings shows a menu of homes from different time periods. If you choose one, say Tang Homes, then you see a page with a variety of pictures and captions describing explicit details of how they were built. Along with these are questions for students, with clues to the answers on linked pages. As an example of a side topic is a clear explanation of feng shui, and how it was and is used to site homes.
Selecting "Painting" takes you to a page showing a variety of Chinese paintings grouped under three categories: Painting as Social Record, Painting as Fine Art, and Technical Aspects of Painting. Each of these has many examples to look at, with the same clear and explicit details presented in easy to read bold medium sized font. Both the subject and the purpose of the paintings are described, and questions with linked clues make this a fun, interactive site to explore. I have never seen a site, and rarely a book, that has such fine high resolution photos of the artwork, or contains such a great variety of styles and subjects.
This website is such a rich treasure trove of images and information it is hard to know which to focus on for the classroom. I know I will have to use this as a source for a number of subjects that I usually teach with handouts I have put together over the years. Thanks Clay for adding the links to this site, and providing the motivation to go beyond our usual sources. You certainly have a right to be smiling : )
Anonymoushttp://www.outreachworld.org/index/asp
This site is produced at the UCLA International Institute, and acts as a sort of clearinghouse for sites dealing with educating students about the world's many cultures. Its design is simple and clear, with an abundance of links for each major topic, and all the many subtopics. The major categories are: Resources - 344 links to a global array of topics from "Abrahamic Religions" to "Yurt Building for Everyone", with every area of the world, and every aspect of culture covered in between; Calendar - a current listing of multicultural events and educational opportunities; Contacts - 212 university sites specializing in different areas of the world; and News - current examples of global education posted by teachers and students.
Within each of these categories are a multitude of resources, lesson plans, and travel opportunities, a veritable world of world studies. This site truly opens up a world of information and possibilities for teachers.
AnonymousOne website that I have used over and over again lately is http://www.wikipedia.org -- it has a tremendous amount of information about everything. It really helped with mythology, music and composers, artists and art history. It also has quite good links to other sites and a large dictionary of information.