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Dragons In Chinese Folktales And Art
Students investigate and discuss the use of the dragon in Chinese folktales and art in this middle school lesson introducing Chinese art and culture. Lesson extensions are included for additional activities.
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The Science of Sound and Musical Instruments
Students identify the components of sound. They describe the relationship between pitch and frequency and explain the terms sympathetic vibrations and resonance.
They perform simple experiments about the world of sound and explain the...
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Chinese Shadow Puppets
Students explore the art of Chinese shadow puppetry. They create puppets, develop and rehearse scripts and perform a show in front of the class.
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Woodblock Printing: Early Printing Traditions in China
Learners examine important role of woodblock printing in Chinese history, identify message important to them, and create woodblock prints to gain first-hand understanding of how it was used as tool for communication.
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The Silk Road
Students research the geography of Asia from Xian to Istanbul. They explore the intricacies of ancient trade, including trade goods and policies. They study minorities within and outside of various Chinese and other Asian empires.
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Folktales Reflect Daoist and Buddhist Traditions
Tenth graders compare three Chinese folktales for their "messages" and literary techniques to see how they reflect Chinese Confucian and Taoist values. They discuss how folktales share certain subjects, characters, plots and themes.
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Images of China
Students examine the Chinese poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Li Po while comparing the different ways of "reading" an artwork in order to understand the differences between Chinese and American painting.
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Kites of Japan
Students perform research into the designs of Japanese kites in order to appreciate them for their aerodynamic designs. The appreciation builds student interest in order to produce their own similar designs.
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Jay Chou: Famous People (ELL Assignment)
This 13-page assignment was designed for English language learners and includes a one-page reading on the Taiwanese entertainer, Jay Chou, and 10 activities/exercises that address listening and reading comprehension, speaking, vocabulary...
American Museum of Natural History
Silk Road Fables
Talk about rabbit holes! With just this one resource, learners can travel the Silk Road listening to fables, meet a scientist who studies poisons (and whose favorite book is Alice in Wonderland), and listen to a video interview of an...
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"Taming the Bicycle"
Eighth graders discuss invention of bicycle and early obstacles to riding, listen to and discuss short story "Taming the Bicycle" by Mark Twain, define vocabulary words from story, and create and present humorous "how to" project to...
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My Likes And Dislikes
High schoolers practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.
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Circus
In this Kids' Page worksheet, students read a short passage about the circus. Students then respond to 8 multiple choice questions and find 12 given words in the word search provided.
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Bronze Bells
Students explore an amazing technological advancement in ancient China, zhong
bells, as an example of the use of natural resources and human ingenuity to meet a need and to add value to the quality of life in an ancient time.
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New Year Celebrations
Students study the universality of many New Year celebrations. They present traditions associated with New Year celebrations and explain why New Year is at different times for different people.
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China Daily: China Culture: Ancient Chinese Architecture: Concrete Music
An overview of ancient Chinese architecture, culture, and art.
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Taipei Economic & Cultural Office: Art of Chinese Dance
This site from the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Houston has wonderful information on the Traditional Chinese Culture in Taiwan such as the art of Chinese Dance. The information is somewhat in-depth and is very interesting as...
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Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center
Good resource for exploring Chinese culture and language. Learn about Taiwanese lantern riddles, Chinese folklore, clothing, poetry and fables, papercutting, Chinese New Year, and Chinese festival and every-day cooking. Multimedia makes...
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Medieval: China's Classical Music
Contains general information regarding music created by the Chinese. Also contains links to information needed to purchase from a host of CDs demonstrating Chinese classical music.
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China Daily: China Culture a Z
Go directly to a collection of illustrated feature-length articles about traditional and contemporary Chinese arts. Covers the principal visual and performing arts of China, for example, traditional crafts, calligraphy, architecture,...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Chinese Instruments
Help your students identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments.
InterKnowledge Corp.
Geographia: Malaysia: Kaleideculture
A lively look at the multi-cultural influences in Malaysia. This article from the Malaysia Promotion Tourism Board not only gives an overview of Malaysia's interesting culture, but also offers hyperlinks to get even more information....
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: Confucius Kongfuzi: The Analects, Excerpts
Provides a large number of excerpts from the "Analects" by Confucius. These quotes are divided into seven themes of Confucian teaching, humaneness, the superior man, rites, music, learning and teaching, government, and rectifying the...
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Regent Tour China: Chinese Music: Instruments
A great description of the many musical instruments used in Chinese music.