NEA - Asia for Educators

[Anonymous]

I visited the website and found the online museums very interesting. I look forward to sharing this particular resource with my students. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I began paying close attention to Korea about two- three years ago when news of the North escalated on them building more and more weapons that are against the United Nations laws and other peace treaty las that they have agreed and signed in the past. They are violating many of those treaties and continue to do what they want without any repercussions. What is as interesting is how the United States is the largest consumer of Korean goods and we do not have any meaningful sanctions or embargos against them. I guess as long as they continue to pay high tariffs and pass that along to the consumer in this country, the US government won't say anything.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/index.asp

[Anonymous]

I'll be passing this section on to our Geography teacher - hopefully we can do a project together using it!

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/geography/lesson_plan.html

[Anonymous]

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/Challenge/choka.html

This website gives you a variety of styles of Japanese poetry. Excellent for an introduction for students.

[Anonymous]

http://www.dannychoo.com/


I like this site for students on Japanese culture because it is very colorful and seems like it is anime based, but there is a lot of good knowledge buried within it. It seems fun and students will like to look at the pictures, but it also has great articles on high school archery, about discovering different parts of Japan, how to write a resume, 2D anime, how to build a career in Japan, accounts of people's time spent on vacation there, and food.

Students like it and do not realize they are learning !

[Anonymous]

Website Review

http://www.nctasia.org/index.html
The National Consortieum for Teaching about Asia

The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), funded by the Freeman Foundation, is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about East Asia in elementary and secondary schools nationwide. NCTA is a premier provider of professional development on East Asia.
This website offers many resources that are valuable for teachers. These include lesson plan ideas for both high schools and middle school students through many different websites. One of these includes a link to the University of Colorado at Boulder to a multitude of picture essays and images to better understand different Asian eras of history.
This website could also be valuable to students. Students need valid sources to help bolster their term and research papers. These sources fulfill that needs.

[Anonymous]

This website also is great for teaching about world religions. Each religion has a summary of it's beliefs and a link to further reading and explanations. This is especially useful for students in world history who have questions and the desire to learn about world religions.

[Anonymous]

I really liked how the website lays out the standards for geography. Despite the fact that I do not teach History or Geography, I believe that this would be a good source of information for any teacher and students
edited by dcoronel on 5/23/2013

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

This is an excellent website! It's from Columbia University and is a collection of lesson resources from many sites on China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam. There you can find among many other things: Online Museum, Geographic Perspective, China-Music, Japan-Non-theater.

http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/asia-for-educators.html

[Edited to make the name of the site the name of the post. Please note that Asia for Educators from Columbia University is a wonderful and large site of resources, please note the reviews elsewhere in this forum of AFE materials. There are primary source documents, lesson plans, videos, interactive paintings, and much more. - cd]
edited by Clay Dube on 8/19/2013

[Anonymous]

Whoops I posted this in the wrong place:

Here is a link to a website I found that contains declassified documents that focus on US- China interaction from 1969- present. Many of these documents are dense, however excerpts can be used so students can understand U.S. responses to the Chinese government crack down in Tiananmen Square. The website is easy to navigate and all the declassified documents appear at the bottom. http://http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/china-us/

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