Asia in My Classroom

I'm an art teacher and am thinking about doing two different lessons based on the Chinese Zodiac and/or Astrology I'll post my ideas in another post. Below are links I've discovered.

This first set is from Wikipedia. The links provided are uncontested entries, though links to a few animals are contested (especially the Dog it seems). I would greatly appreciate new links to accurate information on any subjects in this vein, but especially on the contested data.

Chinese Astrology/Chinese Zodiac link. Tons of great info on origins plus much more, including charts to map out 3 of the 4 Animal influences for the 4 pillars of Destiny (Year, Month, and hour, no day) and links to info on each animal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac

Earthly Branches - Chinese System of reconing time by orbit of Jupiter. Useful since it gives names of Constelations/Zodiac animals in 4 languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches

Wu Xing - The Five Elements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_elements_%28Chinese_philosophy%29

OTHER LINKS

This link has a good one page explainer on the 4 pillars. More concise than Wikipedia since it is focused on that particular tradition. Gives more info on the four pillars and their influences on the individuals life. Also provides a link to their 4 Pillars Calculator, whichs plots the info for you with no explainers for the results.
http://traditionalfengshui.co.za/traditional%20feng%20shui%20four%20pillars.htm

Link to a Feng Shui online school with another good explainer, 4 pillars calculator, and celebrity 4 pillars ebook amongst the freebies.
http://www.astro-fengshui.com/astrology/four_pillars.html

Link to a cheezy looking site that actually provides a decent calculator with "cute" little pictures of your animals. Interesting in that it assigns color values to the animals based upon the element associated with the given date and time.
http://chineseastrologyonline.com/TDB/leChart.asp

LINKS TO LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE search engines- some 4 pillars calculators provide the option of giving the longetude and latitude of to provide more accurate information regarding the astrological influences at the time of birth. It does seem to make a difference in the outcomes and seems a worthwhile thing to check out.

This is a SLOW US govt website with great search functionality
http://geonames.usgs.gov/redirect.html

This is another astrology website, but one that inculdes a longetude latitude seach integrated. Its got my gps birth info but you can change it.
http://www.astro.com/cgi/ade.cgi?cid=atgfileDo6dRz-u1202707643&spli=Sacramento%2CCA%20%28US%29%2C121w30%2C38n35%2Cf%2C33%2C-27200%2C4067&snam=now&fromaq=aq&sprev0=%2C%2C

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