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Web
Sites
Find more examples of traditional artifacts in the AMNH
Anthropology Department's Asian Ethnographic Collection database
at
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/asia_public/asia_public.htm.
Choose
a country from the map, and pick a type of object.
For information
and curriculum guides on Asia, visit http://www.amnh.org/education/
and click on Multicultural Programs.
The Museum has
partnered with an exciting online curriculum project, Classroom
Connect. Visit China and uncover the mystery of Marco Polo from
their Asia Quest, at http://www.classroomconnect.com.
Students can
take virtual tours of Asian museums and research other artifacts
at http://www.icom.org/vlmp/.
Click on Japan, Korea, or Rest of the World.
Look at Curriculum
on Asia, http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/.
This program is for purchase, but the Web site has many links that
provide sample curriculum on Asia.
Resources
for Students:
Faces, Cobblestone Publishing Co. Simon and Schuster
Education Group, Peterborough, NH. www.cobblestonepub.com.
Back issues that directly relate to the Museum experience include
Rice, Growing Up in China, Japan, India,
Courtship, Korea, Central Asia, and Calendars,
among others.
The Lands,
Peoples, and Cultures Series, created by Bobbie Kalman, Crabtree
Publishing Company, 1990.
Asia for
Kids, Master Communication, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. http://www.asiaforkids.com.
A catalog dedicated to Asian and Asian-American publications.
Resources
for Teachers:
Cultural Awareness for Children, by Judy Allen, Earldene McNeillk,
and Velma Schmidt, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. For Asia and
the world a truly multidisciplinary approach to teaching cultures.
Japan: An
Island Culture and Korea: Crossroads of Asian Culture,
Learning Trough an Expanded Arts Program, Inc. New York, NY. Excellent
curriculum guides for teachers with slides based on the Hall of
Asian Peoples. Education About Asia, published by the Association
for Asian Studies, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan. A continual source
of ideas for teaching about Asia by scholars and educators. www.aasianst.org/eaa/subs.htm
or (734) 665-2490 for back issues.
Silk
Road
For
a review of literature and curriculum on the Silk Road, see "The
Silk Road: An Educational Resource," Morris Rossabi, Education About
Asia, 4/1, 1999. Available through the Association for Asian Studies,
Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan. www.aasianst.org/eaa/subs.htm
or call (734) 665-2490 for back issues.
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