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Advanced Sentence Completion Exercise 10

For Students 5th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar skills learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers...
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Cultural Calendar

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars design their own cultural calendar.  In this calendar making lesson, students decide on a culture for a calendar theme and discuss how calendars differ from the US calendar.  Young scholars create their own...
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Immigration

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the American immigration experience. In this immigration lesson, 8th graders watch a video about Ellis Island and discuss the processing that took place there. Students write letters in the voice of American...
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Designing a Quilt Pattern

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create and color a one-patch quilt design based upon a regular hexagon. They examine quilts and photos of quilt designs, read a handout, and complete their quilt design on a worksheet.
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My Culture

For Students 8th - 9th
In this culture worksheet, students answer ten short-answer questions about their own culture then write about the major cultural influences in their lives.
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Changing Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the experiences of immigrants coming to America from China. They create cultural profiles for themselves and others. They identify the reasons why people immigrate to another country.
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Japan

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify some key concepts, ideas, and facts about Japan. Students identify shared traits and differences of Japan as compared to other asian countries. Students identify how geography can affect the culture of a place....
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The Perils of Translation

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners discover the challenges of translating poetry written in a character-based language through the study of Lao-tzu's work, Daodejing. This lesson plan includes possible extensions and evaluations.
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Pottery, Porcelain, And Posterity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and discuss the various ceramic techniques foudn throughout China's history using primary source documents and internet resources. This activity emphasizes small learning groups.
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A Poem for Nature

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students imagine what it would be like to enter a landscape painting and then write a poem on nature.
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Architecture of China- A Web Based Search

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use the internet in order to investigate the architecture of China. This is done in order to build an appreciation for the structures of buildings and how they communicate the culture.
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ESL Holiday Lesson: World Tai Chi Day

For Students 5th - 6th
For this ESL holiday worksheet, students read or listen to a passage about World Tai Chi Day, then complete a variety of activities related to the passage. 
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Woman Holding Plum Blossoms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students contrast and compare the definition of beauty in Tang dynasty China with that of America today in this high school Social Studies lesson. The lesson concludes with a small group activity.
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Social Studies: Exploring Japan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the culture and environment of Japan, beginning with a KWL chart. They use clay and cups of water to construct representations of the Japanese Islands. After designing flags representing farming and food, 4th...
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The Medium And The Message

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast Buddhist sculpture in varying materials through in-class discussions and small cooperative learning groups. This instructional activity includes possible instructional activity extensions.
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Connecting Math to Our Lives

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in an online interactive forum to explore how math is used in their families and communities. They design games to submit to other students online, and identify and organize data to solve the problems from other...
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Paper Making

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make handmade paper. They discuss the history of paper, examine the various methods of making paper, and create the handmade paper using different types of paper, a blender, and water.
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A Guide for Community Living

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use photography to help them become more knowledgeable about their communities, and to make a "community survival" book in which problems are solved by going to the right community agency.
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Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio...
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars, in groups, create a profile of different Pacific Northwest explorers. They develop PowerPoint presentations and maps to showcase their findings.
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Understanding Daoism through study of the Daodejing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners work in groups and study Daodejing. They describe how Monkey's behavior (from the Monkey Stories) is governed by the Yang and the Yin powers.
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Bronze Bells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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NCTA Lesson Plan on Korea

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the unique aspects of the Korean culture. Using the websites included in the instructional activity they research categories of subjects that are related to the culture.
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New York on the Pacific Coast

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the interaction and consequences of contact among different ethnic groups. Students examine a timeline and the important historical events in American History. They discuss immigration and migration.

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