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Harding Black: Taking It To Another Level

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the pottery of Harding Black and the uses of clay in San Antonio, Texas. They watch a video about the life of Harding Black, conduct a clay percolation experiment, compare and...
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Learning Activities: Magic Words

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students use poetry to compare and contrast humans and frogs.
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Mongol Dynasty

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students identify and analyze the Yuan Dynasty; the Kings and Kingdoms; who the Mongols were and what they did; the Mongol Conquest of China; the Four Class Systems; the Genghis Kahn's rise to power; the Genghis Khan- Conquests; the...
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Changing Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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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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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The Importance of Trade

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss how trade affects the products they use everyday. In groups, they identify the clothes they are wearing, the food they eat most often and the cars their families drive. Using the internet, they research how these goods...
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Our State Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students take a virtual tour of the country of China instead of a state. Using the Internet, they examine the differences between a political and physical map and use latitude and longitude to locate specific places. They also research...
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Asia Society: Start a Chinese Language Program in Your School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A good collection of ideas and resources for U.S. teachers and schools that want to start Chinese language programs.
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Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Online Chinese Tools, With Chinese English Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site that provides tools to assist people learning and using the Chinese language. Resources include flashcards, pinyin converter, Chinese-English dictionary, calendar converter, Chinese number and currency converter, and more.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Resources for Language Teachers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has links to many resources for the language teacher of Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.
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Language Guide

Language Guide: Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Useful resource for learning everyday Chinese vocabulary -- roll over each image to hear the correct pronunciation and see how the word is written. Corresponding English section (and other languages) makes this site a useful tool for ESL...
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Yellowbridge.com: Chinese Loan Words in the English Language

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting language resource which details some of the few "loan words" in English from the Chinese language. Provides information and a list of Chinese words and characters.
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United Nations

United Nations: Introduction of Un to Children (Chinese)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These are the Chinese language pages of the UN's CyberSchool Bus site. Not as much content as the English version but pages do include resources and information about different nations and cities, UN-sponsored children's events (make a...
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Crayola

Crayola Asian Landscape Scroll

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a lesson plan for students of any age! Children use Chinese scroll painting as inspiration to create their own version of this ancient art form. Provides resources and adaptations as well. You need to register to view the page,...
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Google

Google Language (Translation) Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
Find language tools, developed by Google, that perform machine translations of short passages of text or of entire Web pages, from English into over 10 world languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mandarin Movement Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, language and movement unite. There are two teachers who will read a command, once in Mandarin and once in English. The learners listen to both languages and then perform what the command is.
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Latimer Clarke Corporation

Atlapedia Online: China

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource for facts about China. This site is organized into several sections including "Location & Geography," "Climate," "People," "Demographic/Vital Statistics," "Religions," "Languages," "Education," and "Modern History -...
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China News Digest [In Chinese]

For Students 9th - 10th
The China News Digest is an online news resource serving China. Content includes national and international news, as well as various features.
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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Trans Pacific Project: Transpacific Migrations

For Students 9th - 10th
What an incredible resource that looks at Transpacific migrations peopling the Western Hemisphere, the Pacific islands, and the Chinese diaspora. Included is information about genetic research that traces DNA patterns across the world....
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Mdbg: Translation

For Students 9th - 10th
The main purpose of this site is to teach Chinese to native speakers of English but its bilingual content makes it a useful resource for Chinese English language learners as well; translate a small text from English to Chinese or the...
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Mdbg: Word Dictionary Basic

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic word dictionary, aimed at learners of Chinese; a useful resource for Chinese English language learners as well. Search either by Chinese, Pinyin or English Definition. Audio is in Chinese Mandarin pinyin.