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Units of work
Lessons and units of work about China already constructed to help you program your lessons.
Some great units of work for primary and secondary students and other useful resources for studying China.
A fantastic resource from Amnesty International Australia. Units of work about social issues in China including censorship and human rights.
Amnesty International resources for schools about China and other countries and issues. Multimedia resources, lesson plans, etc.
Some good (and some less good) WebQuests on China. They've got some good links to information and ideas for research activities.
Movies
Movies, documentaries and clips available online about China. Tip: get DownloadHelper for the Firefox browser so that you can download them to your USB stick and not have to worry about poor streaming at school. http://www.downloadhelper.net/
More documentaries about China, the people who live there and social issues in China than you'll ever be able to watch. All available online.
Online Tai Chi practice moves. Learn to Tai Chi, the annoying way (you have to click for each move).
Dan Snow from the One Show takes a look at the Terracotta Army when it visits the British Museum.
Learning Chinese
Resources for speaking Mandarin and reading and writing Chinese.
This is a fantastic resource for any classroom learning Chinese or about China. The dictionary pinyin with tones as well as simplified and traditional writing, an animation of the order stroke for many words and audio of how the word should be spoken. There is also other resources such as practice sheets for writing, a translator, and other stuff for kids and the classroom.
A fantastic resource and online community for learning languages. They have fairly good quality lessons, but it's the interaction with native speakers that sets it apart from any other learning method. I plan on collaborating with my Livemocha 'friends' when studying other countries with my students. Great communication tools that integrate language tools, audio and webcam.
How pictographs and idegraphs can comine to make compound pictographs and ideographs. Useful for language, writing and calligraphy lessons.
Art
Bookmarks about Chinese calligraphy, paper making and clay (what's a theme on China without making a class terracotta army!).
Information
News blogs, articles, encyclopedia entries and other sources of information about China.
A blog on The Wall Street Journal - "CHINA JOURNAL - How China is changing - and changing the world". It's usually updated a few times a day and contains some interesting issues and information.
Unorganised China bookmarks
These are the bookmarks I haven't yet had time to annotate or file in a section.
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A set of bookmarks for some of the best websites I've found when looking for resources to use in next terms China-themed unit of work. They include online and downloadable resources for learning to speak Chinese and read and write Mandarin, studying social issues in China and current events like ...
Updated on 2008-11-12
Created on 2008-06-17
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