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=Teaching tools= [|Media analysis] Problem based learning Webquests (including discussions, ideas, rubrics) [|glogster]

=Lesson plan websites= [|Edsitement] [|EdTechTeacher] [|Asia for Educators] (Columbia University - look at the modules down the right hand side of the webpage) [|MIT Visualizing Cultures] (connections between art, social and cultural history - this site is still under development but the graphics are amazing) [|Asia society] - secondary school lesson units

Film Studies
[| Integrating film and television into social studies instruction] [|Media literacy resources]

[|Red Sorghum] - Warring states period

Zhang Yimou's //To Live// [|Review] Lesson plan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[|The Blue Kite] China - 1953 - 1967

[|Yellow Earth] (Elements of communist principles - why was communism popular? Metaphors for statements on modern China) [|Film analysis] - interesting article

Activities
[|Creating a multimedia exhibition with Digital History] [|'Doing' history] [|Music] [|Digital stories, flash movies and the 'Time Machine']
 * Digital History**

=**East Asia**= [|East Asian History Sourcebook] [|Asian Studies Virtual Library]  [|Study of East Asian History] [|Edsitement websites on the Far East] [|Links to Asian Studies resources from 'Asia for Educators'] [|East Asia in Geographic Perspective] (Asia for Educators) - fantastic images and ideas, clearly organized - this would be great to use as a 'hook', or to weave through ideas connected to //Geography and Identity//



=**Shanghai**= [|Tales of Old Shanghai]

=China= [|Living in the Chinese cosmos - Religion in Imperial China] (//Asia for Educators//) [|The Taoist Tradition] (exhibition from the Art Institute of Chicago) [|Rise and Fall of the Canton trade system] (MIT) - no lesson plans yet, but great graphics and teacher information [|Comparing China and Europe] - //China achieves a modern state// (good stuff from //Asia for Educators//) [|Mao Zedong] (a link to primary sources, photographs and biographies)

[|Teaching unit]on 'Trade in the Silk Road Cities' (connections between geography and economics, past and present)

=Japan= [|Rise of the merchant class - a complete unit] (Edsitement) [|Black ships and samurai] (MIT) - fabulous graphics [|Foreigners on the tourist circuit in Meiji Japan] (MIT) - no lesson plans yet, but great graphics and teacher information [|Asia Rising - the Russo Japanese War] (MIT - this one has curriculum - excellent!)

=Korea=

=**The Middle East**= [|Islamic History Sourcebook]