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Countdown to the New Year - CineGroupe Sagwa, Inc. - Grades 1 to 3 - permalink -

Celebrate the Chinese New Year with this collection of interactive games that also teaches students about the special cultural traditions that are part of this holiday. The activities on this site are based on The Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan (and Sagwa on PBS). You might want to introduce this book to your students before turning them loose to explore. The main site Sagwa does include other interactives and video clips of the show. Some of these activities do require Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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In the Classroom:
Read The Chinese Siamese Cat to your students, then share this site using an interactive whiteboard or projector. Set this site up as a learning center during your language arts class. List this site on your class website or in your newsletter for students to explore at home with their families.

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Grades 4 to 8 - permalink -

Join Marco Polo on a 24,000-mile journey along the Silk Road to the lands of Khubilai Khan! The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells his amazing story through historical sources, exquisite paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, artifacts, and a clickable map of the journey. The map includes audio recordings of Marco Polo’s memoirs and images accompanied by information about the history of each location. Images can be explored in minute detail using the online Image Explorer.

This site requires Real Player. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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In the Classroom:
Extend the journey into your classroom with the cross-curricular activities and reading suggestions in the “Continue the Adventure” section. Play the audio recordings once to put them into the computer memory for a smoother narration during class time. External computer speakers will help make the recordings more audible. Show the images to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard or projector. Use the museum images and research to discuss major religions in the 13th century. Have students create their own Silk Road maps with journal entries from writing prompts about travel in that era, geography of the area, and famous cities along the route. Do a math activity to measure the distances over land and sea. Build a science unit around the minerals and metals that astounded Marco Polo. Use online sources to show pictures of the minerals and metals in their natural geological state.

China - BBC - Grades 0 to 8 - permalink -

This website (created by BBC), provides a wealth of information on China. It was updated in 2007, so is slightly out of date. But the information still provides solid research and information about the country. Visitors to the website will find information about saving the pandas, China's one-child policy, famous Chinese landmarks and authentic accounts of visits to China (through the eyes and words of other students).
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In the Classroom:
Use an interactive whiteboard or projector to take your students on a virtual field trip to China! The students are sure to enjoy the pictures and "student guides" of China. As a comparison across cultures, have your students create a "student guide" that compares their own culture with another. Middle school students could use issues such as the "one child policy" and some social policies as writing prompts for persuasive essays or debate topics in their world cultures class.

Playing with Shadows - Kennedy Center - Grades 4 to 6 - permalink -

Introduce your students to the ancient Chinese art of shadow puppetry with this delightful and interactive site. In addition to revealing the basic mechanics of the art, this resource provides historical background, descriptions of traditional stories and characters used in shadow puppetry, and videos of actual shows performed by the Shaanxi Folk Art Theater – a renowned Chinese puppetry troupe. After observing the step-by-step process of puppet and stage creation, visitors can construct virtual puppets and create their own shows.
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In the Classroom:
This site might provide some inspiration for a very different kind of multicultural class project. Create your own shadow puppets from straws, tape, paper fasteners, and scissors; then add a simple cotton screen and light source. Instructions and illustrations are provided.

Panda Central - San Diego Zoo - Grades 2 to 12 - permalink -

The San Diego Zoo’s panda pages offer a plethora of photos and other information about China’s most reclusive citizens. Besides being undeniably cute, pandas make a great preservation study with some interesting international overtones. It now includes a live webcam stream of the pandas 24 hours a day
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In the Classroom:
Both elementary and secondary teachers will find this one useful.

Chinese Garden Markets - - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

This site is a photojournal of a tour through the Chinese countryside, noting the ways in which local "farmers' markets" contribute to the vitality of an otherwise centralized Chinese economy. Interesting for its purely local and village focus, as well as for the photos showing what life in small Chinese villages really looks like.
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Touring China - Chinese National Tourist Office - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

This site from the Chinese National Tourism Office provides very general information on the features of China's various regions, paying particular note to places interesting to tourists. Despite the lack of detail, there's more than enough here to get a sense of the variations in China's geography, cultures, and history.
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