East-Asia-focused Websites
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August 14, 2011 at 1:25 pm #24152
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GuestYing, I want to thank you for recommending this web site. There is a wealth of information that will be very useful in our department. I checked numerous links and found them all informative. I would especially recommend the language, Finance and people sections for our teachers. The humor section was very enjoyable in showing what would be consider comedy in China. I especially liked the Chinese top 10 list.
August 19, 2011 at 10:36 am #24153GuestThere are 5 (I'd skip the 1st video though) YouTube.com videos made by rockguykev on China. There is a website, made by Mr. Roughton, that goes with the videos that has PowerPoints that match the lessons in the YouTube videos. The videos and PowerPoints teach to the state standards in an entertaining way with a combination of notes and video clips. It is very easy to use and completely free. He also has these types of lessons for Japan and most other subjects for the 6th and 7th grade curriculums.
Video 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9GT5uJLeg&feature=related This first video is just under 10 minutes long. The topics include economics, geography, Silk Road, Buddhism , and Taoism.
Video 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWJHecBxUQ&feature=related This video is also just under 10 minutes and uses the Winnie the Pooh to teach about Toism and Confucianism. The lesson teaches about reading and writiing in China.
Video 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAjNWcfx4fI&feature=related This video reviews how paper was made and Chinese inventions ranging from the compass to gun powder.
Video 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbRjnehQsE&feature=related This video reviews farming, the Han Dynasty, seeking unity, meritocracy, scholar officials, and the Great Wall.Here is the link to Mr. Roughton's website for the PowerPoints that go with the above videos. You'll find additional lesson plan ideas as well, such as labs that he uses to go with the unit. For example, one of the labs has an activity related to China inventions from the Tang and Song periods.
http://mrroughton.com/china.aspx Scroll down towards the middle of the website, under "Unit Guide," and you can download the four PowerPoints matching the above videos. You may need to first save the PowerPoint and then open it up.
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edited by ccable on 8/19/2011August 28, 2011 at 12:16 am #24154GuestHere is another website that I thought it's useful for teaching calligraphy lessons: http://library.thinkquest.org/3614/. The website slogan is Projects by Students for Students. It's quite interesting to see how students learn and understand the subject they learn. The website provides the stokes of each calligraphy character and introduces the four tools that are used for Chinese calligraphy. I think it's great to share it with the students for the extension of a calligraphy lesson. For example, if we would like to have our students to create a webpage for introducing Chinese calligraphy.
September 1, 2011 at 2:56 pm #24155GuestWhen Professor Yang Ye presented, I found it very interesting that he uses the CIA world fact book website as his most-up-to-date resource. I checked it out. You can find out all kinds of information, such as flags from around the world, teacher resource websites, interactive slides and maps for each continent showing for example, trade of pottery between Iraq and China, samples of ancient painting and calligraphy (ink on paper) from the Yuan dynasty, and works of Hokusai: manga, Japanese scroll artwork, paintings with explanations, and pages from Japanese picture books. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
September 1, 2011 at 3:08 pm #24156GuestHere is a website that covers a multitude of information about life and culture in the Heian period of Japan. About a dozen or more categories cover topics from cosmetics to architecture. Literature by Mirasaki Shikibu and some biographical information (not much is really know about her life) is available. You can look up her poems, her REAL diary, and The Tale of Genji. Other women include Sei Shonagon and her short essays known as The Pillow Book. My students would enjoy learning that women back then shaved or tweezed their eyebrows and painted new false eyebrows (chunky straight lines) high on the forehead. Their lips were reddened with beni, the juice from benibana (safflower). Blackening the teeth was a custom up until the late 19th century even for men. The teeth were stained with a smelly mixture (oxidized iron filings) that had to be reapplied every few days or the teeth began to lighten. One of the categories covers homosexuality which makes me not want to use it with my students as some parents would object. Good resource for teachers.
September 1, 2011 at 3:20 pm #24157GuestWow! This website is like discovering a gold mine filled with educational websites and curriculum resources. There is so much information about China from early man to the present! You will find timelines of Chinese history and dynasties. There are annotated chronological outlines of Chinese history. Looking for information about the geography along the Silk Roads? It's here. I even found the words to the "Chinese Dynasties Song" to the tune of "Frere Jacques" that Tony sang for us. You can explore PBS Learning Media. Daily online newspapers such as ShanghaiDaily.com shared the news of the quadruplets starting school yesterday. You can play The China Game based on the board game Feilong. Correctly answer questions to travel from the city of Harbin in the northeast to the city of Urumqi in the west. A clever, fun-loving red dragon asks you questions with immediate feedback and witty words. Go to the Asia Kids Society and read the illustrated pages of some children's books, such as The Tale of Lady Wenji or Count in Chinese, or The Mahabharata (longest story ever) from India. I highly recommend this website.
September 1, 2011 at 3:20 pm #4243Rob_Hugo@PortNW
KeymasterThis website contains many different aspects of learning about China and more importantly about Chinese language.
It has dictionary which can use every possible way to find out the meaning of a Chinese word, or what is the Chinese word of an English word.
There are memory games to help learn Chinese. There are current events, literature, language, people, humor, games, mysticism, travel, finance and marketplace.
Play around with the website, you can pretty much find anything you need. -
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