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AnonymousI hope you will find this website useful. Below is the intoduction of the website:
"(On the website) You will notice headings for China, Japan, Korea, and East Asia. For each heading, a mouse-click will bring up lessons oriented for K-12 on the selected region.
The headings just below the countries will bring up lessons for each region which can be sorted by grade or alphabetically."
Check it out yourself now!
http://www.kcta.ku.edu/KCTAlessons/china.html
[Edit by="liliwang on Apr 29, 7:54:30 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousHi
Most of the Websites listed are more useful with social studies/history classes. Does anyone have sites more appropriate for eighth grade English (literature)?
AnonymousNi Hao Kai-Lan is a new TV show on Nick Jr. Channel. It is a play-along, think-along series that weaves together Chinese language and culture, preschool-relatable stories, and interactivity. Ni Hao in Chinese means hello and Kai-Lan is a 6 year-old girl who grows up in a Chinese family. Everyday in the show, Kai-Lan teaches kids some Chinese culture and words. It's not only suitable for little kids, but some of my high school students also require to see Ni Hao Kai-Lan which is a cute show for Chinese beginning learners. It's on the Nick Jr. Channel 11:00-11:30 every weekday. There are also some interactive activities and games on the website. You may apply those ideas to your teaching.
The website of Ni Hao Kai-Lan: http://www.nickjr.com/shows/ni-hao-kai-lan/index.jhtml
AnonymousHi friends,
After I attended the Asia seminars, I wanted to learn more about how China's economic bloom affects causes environment problems in China and even became global environmental issues. The following is the website about environmental issues in China:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0516_050516_chinaeco.html
I feel this article is easy to read and to understand about the environmental problems in China. I teach Chinese language. I will use this article to ask students questions.
1. How is China's economic boom causing problems on the domestic and global environment?
2. What are three kinds of pollutions mentioned in China from the article?
3. What natural source makes up three quarter of China's energy?
4. How does China's economic boom cause air pollution?
5. How does China's economic boom cause water pollution?
6. How does China's economic cause land pollution?[Edit by="ganderson on May 3, 8:56:39 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousDear friends,
I found the website is called China labor watch. China Labor Watch is the news about migrant workers. The website lists some articles about the problems migrant workers facing such as: wages, labor union, and legal aid fund. This website will be useful for students doing project about migrant workers in China. http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/en/web/articles.php?index_column=9&column_name=Migrant%20Workers
AnonymousFor Language Arts 8 teachers using the Holt series, the following Website offers support on the reading of Laurence Yep's Ribbons excerpt. It gives a biography of the author and reviews on the many books he's written. http://www.childrenslit.com
AnonymousAgain for those using Laurence Yep's short story from Ribbons (eighth grade Holt serires), the Website phschool.com/atschool/literature has a fun Internet activity in creating a press release on the student's reading of Ribbons.
AnonymousIn Language Arts 8, we are reading a story from Laurence Yep's Ribbons. After reading the story it generates a lot of questions about some Chinese historical and cultural events such as the preference for male children, the old custom of footbinding. the respect for elders, the Chinese communist party. Does anyone know of a comprehensive Website that covers such topics in an easy to use format for student research?
Anonymoushttp://chinesepod.com/lessons/diet-coke
Dear friends,
I like to introduce Chinese Pod website. I like this website because you can not only use it to learn Chinese language but also Chinese culture. One time I asked my students to learn about Tomb Sweeping Day. This website lists many lessons that you can choose different topics to listen to. Every lesson has two people’s dialogue and English explanation. Their speaking is very clear. If you want to subscribe PDF file, you will need to pay; otherwise it is free website to learn Chinese. It is very interesting website. I am going to let my Chinese students to use it for extra credit.
Anonymoushttp://www.chinabusinessreview.com/
http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/0205/ye.html
The China Business Review website is website that you can use it for China business research. I found an article the title Hope For China’s Women Migrant Workers. This article indicated the female migrant workers in Gunagdong province had contributed China’s economic growth. However, they faced tremendous difficulties in their workplaces. The article pointed out some problems:
• Working long hours 11-12 hours a day
• Low wages ($37-$62) per month
• No medical benefit
• Sexual harassment
• No maternity leave and protection for reproduce health
• Lack of communication with labor unions
• No Hukou (They cannot benefit from the social safety net from the government.)
China government started to reform Hukou and China’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) help the provision of services and assistance to migrant labor.
I can use this article for students to read and summarize it.
Anonymoushttp://www.overpopulation.com
This website is about population. You can post your comments on this website. You can research any topic which relate to people. It is interesting that I read the article that Asian countries are facing rapidly declining birth rates. They are discussing how to encourage more births.
When I type “China family”, it showed other interesting topics such as: China’s Population Surpasses 1.3 Billion, Man in China Sues Wife for Having an Abortion, China’s Bizarre Ban on Condom Advertising, Skewed Sex Ratios in China, China to Intensify One Child Effort; Immigration Case Throws Some Horror Stories In Doubt, China Reported Has 20 percent More Men Than Women, China to reach 1.6 Billion by 2050, China Release Imprisoned Journalist After 5 years.
Are you interested in one of the topics? You can use this website to find more details in the article.
AnonymousIf you go to timeforkids.com/china, there are teacher resources and worksheets that are appropriate for different grade levels. I saw that ssmith posted the exact directions on how to reach the teacher sites for Time magazine, so I won't repeat it. But, just wanted to give remind you that this can be used to differentiate your classroom. For example, I ran off both the 3rd and 4th grade worksheets for China's Great Inventions. I've got kids that don't speak English well and others who could probably be in a 4th grade classroom right now, so they will have different worksheets. Also, they will use these ideas to research further in the computer lab. Try out the teacher resources; it is very easy to use and really good information.
AnonymousThe first website I want to mention is
http://www.42explore2.com/china.htm. This is like a search engine for anything you ever want to know about China and is about 3rd-12th grade friendly. It encompasses web resources from ancient history, to art and culture. You can choose what you want to learn about and there are websites listed to help you get there. It lists web resources from chinapage.com to teacher made websites (that are actually very impressive). They even start with an "easier" and "harder" version of the history. Pretty cool, wish all websites for kids were like that!
AnonymousI found a fantastic resource: http://china.mrdonn.org/index.html. This website literally has just about every topic listed that I can think of, that would be of interest to students. I clicked throught the ancient China section and really enjoyed reading about the ancient food and since I am going to do a section on food for my unit, I will use this in my classroom. It even leads to a section on proper tea culture that is quite extensive. I learned that there is a tradition to say thank you by doing a proper "tea knock" which is bending your index and middle finger and knocking it on the table. It goes into the whole reason behind the tradition which is fun for the kids to learn. If you are teaching other civilizations, you can use this site as well since it lists numerous countries, not just China. I guess you can just take china out of the address listed above.
AnonymousWhile researching for my curriculum project, I found a great website that some of you probably already know about (I didn't). IT is ImDiversity.com. I clicked on Asian-American Village, and it is filled with links to many articles in the news right now about Asia. One of the most interesting I found was Do Your Own Homework:Asian Students Should Learn to Think For Themselves by Andrew Lam. Lam is a Vietnamese American Writer who is bombarded with emails from Asian American students searching for answers on language arts -type questions that they can not find online. It seems that many students are able to get their homework completed by searching for the answers online. However, when asked to really think- like what is the theme in one of his short stories - they were unable to do so and begged for him to help. Of course, they can be many themes in any piece of writing, what is needed is a well-argued piece that explains what the student thinks is the theme. Most Asian-American student excel in math and science, but when it comes to studying literature, many really need help-especially when the answer is not online.