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Teaching about East Asia - Resources for Teachers
By:Michael G.

Asia for Educators
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
Includes teaching aids (workbooks, lesson plans, unit outlines), resources (textbooks, travel programs, language programs) and a library of short multi-media discussions on topics concerning China and Japan. Well-known experts on Asia are featured in video clips. Provided by East Asian Curriculum Project / Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.Asia for Kids
http://www.afk.com/index.tmpl
This commercial site, Asia for Kids, offers hard-to-find resources for the home, classroom or library. Its mission is to make the rich Asian heritage and its diverse languages accessible to everyone. Its collection includes books, language textbooks, videos, audio cassettes, software, CD-ROMs, dolls, games, posters, crafts, t-shirts and resource materials for parents and teachers.
Asian Educational Media Service
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las
Descended from the Center for Educational Media (CEM) at Earlham, AEMS is a national clearinghouse for information about educational media (i.e., audio-visual) materials related to Asia. Maintains an up-to-date, computerized database of information about media which includes price and distributor information for materials still in print and holdings/lending information for materials held in the US. Can be searched by country, format, audience, subject, key word, title and date of production.Asian Studies Development Program
http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/index.html
This full-text database of Asian studies instructional materials contains course syllabi, bibliographies, and other documents collected by ASDP in the course of its five years of faculty development institutes and workshops. Largely geared towards college teaching (2 year, 4 year and minority serving). Nicely indexed. Ask Asia, The Asia Society
http://www.askasia.org/
The Asia Society's mission is to foster understanding and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. The AskAsia web site is an online 'clearinghouse', specifically for elementary, middle and high-school level materials pertaining to Asian Studies, from a variety of sources. Includes information for educators and a set of pages specifically for school children. Covers East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Information organized by country. Includes an expanding set of lesson plans (under instructional resources) organized by theme and by country/region.Association for Asian Studies
http://www.aasianst.org/
The professional association for scholars interested in East, South and Southeast Asia. Publisher of Education about Asia.CyberSchool Bus
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.html
This United Nations sponsored site offers a variety of resources on population and environmental trends, national statistics, city profiles, and UN operations.
Education about Asia
http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm
Published in the Spring, Fall, and Winter, EAA contains stimulating articles on all areas of Asia, covers a range of topics from ancient cultures and literatures to current events, suggests resources for classroom use, and includes essays describing educational programs and techniques that have been tested in classrooms. This site has tables of contents, sample articles, Asian factoids and resource links as well as information on subscribing. Under links there are articles formerly published in the journal on Education in Asian Languages (and selected resources) and Asian Literature Resources.Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
http://ecai.org/
By integrating databases with GIS information, it provides an interactive electronic atlas of the world from which selected data from regions, eras, and disciplines can be instantaneously accessed. Some materials are accessible only to members, but many projects are available.
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
http://www.films.com
A variety of videotapes and CD-Rom programs on Asia are available for purchase or rent. Recent titles include "Asia in Transition," "Japan: Past and Present," "Yangtze: New China and the Old River," and "Korea: Ancient Treasure, Modern Wonder."Indiana University East Asian Studies Center -- Resources and Publications
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/resources/index.htm
This site includes links to resources for teaching about Asia, China, Japan and Korea as well as a series of lessons plans developed in summer workshops at Indiana and Ohio State. Unfortunately, access to the lesson plans is by browsing; they are not indexed or searchable.Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Sourcebooks are collections of texts in the public domain that are available for copying for educational purposes. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham.
Non-Western History: A collection of annotated links for K–12 teachers on Asia-Pacific
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/asapac.html
(Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K–12 Teachers)
Provides an extensive series of annotated but uncategorized listings. Its purpose is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K–12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.PIER Teaching Resource Collection
http://www.yale.edu/pieris/ResourceLibrary.htm
Based at Yale, this collection consists of more than 2000 audiovisual items and more than 5000 print items available for free loan (shipped at cost) to educators who teach at the college and K-12 level. The films, video tapes, CD-Rom disks, slide sets, multi-media sets and artifact kits, texts, children's books, maps, lesson plans, curriculum guides, and periodicals cover Africa, East Asia, Russian and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as global and international studies. There are shipping and handling charges and, given the demand, ordering ahead is recommended. Resources for Teaching East Asian BuddhismStanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education SPICE
http://spice.stanford.edu/
SPICE is well known for producing high quality K-12 lessons. The SPICE website includes samples of these lessons (including one on the silk road and another on Japanese picture brides) as well as detailed information about available units.Teaching East Asia (TEA)
http://www.ssecinc.org/Pg_projects.htm
Teaching East Asia (TEA) includes several projects designed to enhance and expand teaching about Japan and China at the elementary and secondary levels. Specific projects focus on curriculum development, institutionalizing curriculum reform related to East Asia in K–12 education, and professional development for teachers. An underlying mission in all TEA programs is to bring current research and scholarship on China and Japan to K–12 teachers and, through them, to elementary and secondary students.

UCLA's Resources for the Study of Asia
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Resource.htm

Source: http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/japan/classtools/teacherresources.htm






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