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[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

If you are looking for social studies materials related to China let me suggest - Constitutional Rights Foundation - http://www.crf.usa.org.

This group produces a quarterly newsletter related to a historical topic. Included are three articles - U.S. History, World History, Government, and lesson suggestions. If you search through the archives you can find lessons specific to China.

Summer 2002 - Victims of War
Fall 1999 - Clash of Cultures
Summer 1999 - Rules of War.

[Anonymous]

Excellent site - http://score.rims.k12.ca.us.

You will find resources and lessons by Standard and grade level. Specific references to China can be found in grade 6, grade 7, and grade 10.

[Anonymous]

Here is another useful site - http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans

This site has lessons for elementary, middle, and H.S.

You can search by subject including literature, and fine arts.

Under geography for K-8 you will find specific lessons for Asia and China. In World History for grades 9-12 specific lesson for Buddhism & the Dalai Lama and Forbidden City.

Other great resources on the site - quiz center, worksheet generator, lesson planner, puzzle maker, and clip art gallery.

[Anonymous]

Another excellent site - more geared to H.S., excellent for primary source documents.

http://gilderlehrman.org

Go to modules on on major topics in U.S. History. Under each module you will find - an introduction, primary sources, learning tools, visual aids, and resources (maps, timelines, lesson plans).

Three modules that apply to our program -

Immigration, Vietnam, & WWII.

This organization also offers excellent, but highly competitive summer opportunities for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Here is something for the elementary schools, from the scholastic webite. This website is not as easy to use as the others and I did find at least one problem - "Celebrate Mexican Independence Day - Cinco de Mayo".

Mini-unit - Chinese Inventions and the Chinese New Year.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=20

includes a lesson on silk (a chance to use your pictures from China), and reproducibles.

[Anonymous]

UCLA Center for East Asian Studies -

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/web/educweb.htm

links to Asian related web sites. Links to China, Japan, Korea, Women, History and Philosophy. All grade levels represented, but more focus on middle and high school. Many of the items come up as "page can not be displayed", frustrating, but the materials I did get to where good.

[Anonymous]

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/network/tutorial/module3/webquest.htm

Links to webquests related to Asia. Not all opened, but the one on China is excellent - "Searching for China". The webquest question is "What action should the U.S. take in its policy toward China?" Students have six perspectives they need to research. Reminded me a lot of our trip to China.

[Anonymous]

Colubmia University - Asia for Educators

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/

Great site, more suited to H.S., sevaral units including Song, Mongols, China & Europe. Units are web based kids could click through on their own. The lesson plan section and DBQ's (AP) are under contruction. However the subject area box was really good, with links to lessons for China and Japan.

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,

Please post your web reviews in the Web Resources thread in the Asia in My Classroom forum. There are hundreds of reviews already there and you'll benefit from looking through some of them.

Please post film reviews to the Film Festival thread in the Asia in My Classroom forum.

We post those reviews there because they will be of interest to teachers beyond the confines of the PV seminar.

[Anonymous]

If you'd like to share Chinese folktales with your elementary or middle school students, here is a great website with lots of short stories

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/china.html

[Anonymous]

For elementary teachers, enchanted learning has some great projects including creating a panda puppet, a zodiac coloring book, colorable maps of china, and information about inventors and inventions

http://search.enchantedlearning.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/search?key=chinese

[Anonymous]

Here is a great website that shows how to write kanji.

Especially usefull on a projector - but can be done on a large monitor from across the room.

http://members.aol.com/writejapan/

[Anonymous]

http://www.japaneselearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=27

Here is another website with some beginning ways to start learning japanese.

[Anonymous]

Before going to China, this was a useful website to give me an insight into the history of the country:

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html
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[Anonymous]

I have been studying Japanese for a few years and studied Chinese before the trip last year. The way I have studied has been very effective for the effort put in.

The best CDs on tape I have found are from teh Pimsleur Language Program. The local libraries have lots of CDs - especially Torrance.

Here is the website:
http://www.pimsleurdirect.com/s.nl/sc.15/.f?gclid=CIDimMCCxowCFQGZYAodpT9mXg
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