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China Today

An Internet Pathfinder

Created for Mrs. Tyler’s Second Grade Class

Pomperaug Elementary School

January 2004

By Barbara J. Hampton

Holidays, Games, Crafts, Folktales, Recipes

Sagwa: Countdown to Chinese New Year (PBS Television) – interactive Web pages describing New Year’s traditions in China.  http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/countdown/index.html

Chinese New Year (TeacherVision.com) - http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6603.html?detoured=1

Culture Quest World Tour: Asia & the Far East (Internet Public Library KidSpace) – holidays, games, folktales, crafts, and recipes. http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/cquest/asia/asia.html

What is Go [Chinese Game of Wei Qi] (American Go Association) – describes history and rules for game of “Go”. - http://www.usgo.org/resources/whatisgo.asp

Music

The Internet Chinese Music Archive (Xiaoyu Li) – includes traditional music, children’s songs, ceremonial songs, etc.  http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/

The Music of China – instrumental and vocal music. http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/cmusic.html

Chinese Language & Caligraphy

Get Your Own Chinese Name - http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html

Chinese Greeting & Parting – listen to spoken Chinese greetings and simple phrases. http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/greeting.html

Zhima Jie: Chinese Sesame Street (Children’s Television Workshop & Asia Society) – basic words numbers translated to Chinese (spoken, pictographs, and Pinyan (phonetic), with printable pictures to color. http://www.askasia.org/adult_free_zone/activity_corner/language_song_activities/chinese_numbers/home.htm

Travel and Points of Interest

The Great Wall: A Virtual Tour (ChinaVista.com) – slide show with map and photos of great wall. http://www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/greatwall.html

Ken Lee: Bicycling South China 1999 – travel diary with photos. http://www.rahul.net/kenton/fun/china1999/index.html

Land of Beauty: Scenic Photos (China News Digest) – enlargeable thumbnail photo images. http://scenery.cnd.org/Scenery/

China the Beautiful (Ming L. Pei ) – photos, maps, & text, with native musical accompaniment. http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html

Ask Asia Photgraphs – photogallery from Hong Kong, China, and other Asian locales. - http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/Materials/Photos/index.htm

Great Wall of China Seen From Space (NASA) - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/gwall.html

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4840

Maps

Elevation Map, 1999 (Asia Society) – color map. http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/ele_china.htm

Political Map, 1999 (Asia Society) – color map showing major cities and surrounding nations. http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/china1.htm

Art & Museums

The Palace Museum (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) – enlargeabale thumbnail photos of art objects & paintings. http://www.dpm.org.cn/

Digital Museum, The Palace Museum (Taipai, Taiwan) – online images of paintings and art objects, with games and animations in Kids’ Corner. http://www.npm.gov.tw/english/dm/dm.htm

China: 5,000 Years: Electronic Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum – images of paintings, sculpture etc.; children may need help accessing best images. http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/intr/intropage2.html

Science, Nature, & Technology

Who Invented It? When? Chinese Inventions: An Introductory Activity - http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000019.htm

Flora of China (Harvard University) – photos & text describing botanical species in China. http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/

NOVA Builds A Rainbow Bridge (Public Broadcasting System) – photo gallery of construction of arch bridge using ancient Chinese technology. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/china/builds.html

Teacher Resource Links

Asian Studies Resource List - http://www.uvm.edu/~outreach/ASOPWebPages/ASOPResourceListwebpg.html

Ask Asia (Asia Society) - http://www.askasia.org/

China: Dim Sum: A Connection to Chinese-American Culture – lesson plans & classroom activities for study of China. http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/DimSum%20T.ofCon.HomePg.html

Dim Sum Art Activities - http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/The%20Arts%20Table%20of%20Contents.html

Great Wall of China Not Only Man-Made Object Visible From Space (About.com) - http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa090100a.htm