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A travel book that I always get before going to a new place is Lonely Planet. I just found their Website--Lonely Planet World guide. Catagories include :At A Glance and Fast Facts.

You can get information about different destinations, as well as check out what other travellers are saying about Japan.
There are links to: Info. on travel, as well as
background info.
etc...
I have always enjoyed this companies coverage of countries. They have people continually traveling to these locations, updating their information. They include places/restaurants for the budget traveler as well as info. and sites many other travel books/sites don't cover.

My students do a final presentation where they are a travel agency selling a trip to the class.
They have to research all the information needed to take a trip to "their country" (Japan/China etc...), in order put together a trip the class would want to go on. These sites would be a good source of country and travel info for them.

[Anonymous]

Hey Sheri, I just thought that I would respond to you, knowing you, you will probably get back on in the forum sometime after midnight tonight.

Your comment about "Mushrooming" hit home. I went into school today, to find that the internet and the server was down. So websites, e-mail or my school files. Luckily, I have been working on my lessons and website for the Institute on my personal computer. I have been working on my lessons/website since 10:30 this morning and it seems like every time I think that I am almost done. I spend another 2 hours and am still not finished.

Well, I hope you are doing well. See you tomorrow

Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

Okay ... nice to know that I am not the only one putting in insane hours to get this done! It seemed like a basic task but figuring this all out ... well, I am part of the 21st century teacher now!

I like how it is all coming together but ... I think that a suggestion I'll put out there is that this should be a partner project -- linking two who teach the same subject. The work load, for the quality sites we want to produce and the technical challenges, would be more manageable with two heads instead of one. Just a thought.

I am delighted to see some fellow teachers from South getting the work done to qualify for trip consideration. Hope it works out for us!

[Anonymous]

Okay privera, now you have me really worried. All my website info. is on the machines at school. I was going to copy them tomorrow. It was bad enough that the computers have been acting up -- I've been doing my grades by hand. Hope everything works out in the morning...[Edit by="scampbell on Jan 30, 1:02:28 AM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Okay privera, now you have me really worried. All my website info. is on the machines at school. I was going to copy them tomorrow. It was bad enough that the computers have been acting up -- I've been doing my grades by hand. Hope everything works out in the morning...

[Anonymous]

Oops! I don't know how that got posted twice...but to get my mind off the subject, I checked out another website. Asia Today, has the top news stories on Asia. The address is Asia Source.org/news. I went looking for this site because my students do Current Events each week. Lately some of them are getting pretty "trivial". I realize that the local news stations are woefully lacking when it comes to World News. I usually suggest they use a News Magazine, foreign news station,or World section in the paper to get thier topics, but I think they would be more likely to check out some news websites if I suggest some to them.
The catagories on this site are:East Asia/South East Asia/Central Asia/AustralAsia/Business and Economy/Social Issues and Arts and Culture.
I checked out some of the links--plenty of major stories of substance with enough info. that they should have no problem getting enough info. to form an opinion.

[Anonymous]

Okay, this one I was on just because it sounded good
AsiaFood.org. The catagories are:
Recipes
Features
Restaurants
Food Links
Cooking Schools
A lot of the information is taken from Solomons Encyclopedia of Asian Food--cooking terms etc...
At first I was put off because there are some cookbooks and ads-- but there's good information as well if you are interested in Asian cooking and foods.

[Anonymous]

I looked up Lesson Plans--Asia. Of course a lot of the sites that popped up were selling something, but one looked interesting. Religion and Belief Systems in Asia. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons. The site itself was rather dull looking although it did lay out a traditional lesson plan. What was relly nice though was that you could click on the different religions and really great sites popped up--Map Machine--Student Edition, by National Geographic--very nice. It was colorful, had good info./pictures, etc... This site would be very helpful to my students when we do our World Religions Charts.

[Anonymous]

I am feeling sooo much better. My website and lesson plans are done, done, done! I am really happy with it. I just worry that if someone just looked at it they would have no idea that it took me son long to do. Heck even when I look at it I can't see why it took so long. I need to get batter at this.

Sheri, I don't know when you sleep --perhaps you don't? YOU ARE A DYNAMO!

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Yahoo! I think I got everything in. My website is still a bit of a "work in progress". There were still some student examples, readings and primary sources that I want to add later (our school is getting a new scanner next week),and maybe some "special effects" I think it's going to be "up and running" on our school server by tomorrow. Well, I guess I had better get back to my grades --they're due in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Some websites that I found were:
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
a rich resource on just about everything you can imagine – this is an annotated directory that covers everything from art and society to politics and science

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
another rich resource on just about everything historically Asian

http://www.ancienteastasia.org/home.htm
If you are interested in archeology this site is for you, but it might be a little dry to some – the students will hate it – no pictures – but some of the articles are interesting reads

http://uoma.uoregon.edu/education/teachers/i/jp_curriculum.pdf
Although you should have their kit, this is a great site with lesson plans, activities, and information about Japanese art. I couldn’t find a grade level on this but it seems like it’s geared to middle or elementary school students although some of the activities are sophisticated enough for high school. It would be very easy to adapt to California standards

[Anonymous]

I have just explored a great educational website from San Diego State University. The website is a simple web quest for students and is focused on the comparison between European and Japanese Feudalism. This web quest is a really great interactive source for students to understand the differences and similarities of feudalism. This site is really great for seventh grade students who must take a comparative look into feudalism in both places as part of the standards. This is a site that has great resources within it and offers students the chance to evaluate more than one version of history, and decide fro themselves what the common truth is.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/EDTEC596/project2/feudalism/feudalism.html

[Anonymous]

I found a number of effective websites related to Qin Shi Huangdi's achievements and policies (a 6th grade CA Standard). ONe of the best was http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/greatwall/Allabout.html It's main site has a somewhat general, but very readable description of the Great Wall. What I found most useful were the other links -- to a map of the Great Wall, Qin Shi Huangdi, and to other websites. They offer links under the categories China's history, Chinese Art, More about the Great Wall, and More About China.

[Anonymous]

Another good site on Qin Shi Huangdi that had many usable links within it was http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/qin_shihuang_1.htm. It had 2 links about Qin Shi Huangdi's rule, one under History and one with the Terra Cotta Warriors and Mausoleum site. The link about Qin Shi Huangdi's rule would be hard for middle school students, because of its vocabulary, but the other one was more simply written. The information about the Terra Cotta Warriors and the Mausoleum were great, with many good photos.

[Anonymous]

An excellent site on ancient China's dynasties and philosophies is one titled Ancient China The Middle Kingdom at http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ANCCHINA/ANCCHINA.HTM This site has information on Ancient China's History, Ancient Chinese Culture, Chinese Philsosphy, Women in Chinese Culture, an anthology and glossary and finally, a large number of internet resources on each of the above categories. I used the Legalism section of this site as a background link for my website on Qin Shi Huangdi.

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