Year 6R

Computer Resources

• China Treasure Hunt Download the questions girls.China Treasure Hunt Questions
• Article About Olympics - This article tells about how
  Beijing is holding the 2008 Olympics and the problems surrounding it. It relates to my essential question #10. Students can also vote in a poll about whether they think
  China should hold the Olympics.
• China Photo Gallery - This gallery provides a lot of pictures of various locations in
  China. It would be a good website for students to look at when they explore the manmade and natural features of
  China.
• China WebQuest - This webquest is aimed towards younger students and also provides other
  China websites for teachers.
• Chinese New Year Simulation - This website takes students through the preparations that Chinese people go through for the New Year.
• Civic Discussion - This website can help students find a pen pal from
  China. As a class, you can also find a classroom in
  China to interact with.
• Computer Simulation - This online video gives students information about the Great Wall and its history.
• Interactive Website - This online activity takes students on a journey to
  China and has them keep a journal of their adventures.
• Kid’s Travel Thinkquest - This website has students pick Beijing, China from a list of destinations in order to help them learn more about the capital of
  China.
• Life In China Webquest - This webquest is aimed for grades 3-5 to allow children to explore various aspects of Chinese life.
• Online Biographies - This website allows students to look at short biographies of famous Asian Pacific Americans.
• Online Musuem - The DIA website shows some exhibits of their Asian art online.
• Thinkquest - This website gives students information about various aspects of the Chinese culture.
• Tom Synder Software - It would be good to use the Choices, Choices software for the issue-based question. The Where Are We? software would be good to use during a geography lesson.
• Virtual Tour of China - This virtual tour provides students with pictures of sites in the different areas of
  China.

Other Resources

• Booklist - This is a list of books about
  China for children between the ages of four and eight.
• China Information - This website offers some brief information about
  China, along with a variety of reproducibles and activities for students.
• China Reproducibles - These reproducibles can be used during one of the lessons on
  China.
• Chinese Culture - This website is geared towards younger students in order to provide them with information on
  China.
• Chinese Inventions Lesson Plan - This lesson plan helps students learn about all of the inventions that the Chinese have made. The lesson plan could be adapted for grade three students.
• Chinese New Year - This website provides information on the Chinese New Year, along with pictures of the festivities.
• Chinese New Year Book List - This is a booklist from Amazon pertaining to the Chinese New Year.
• Chinese New Year Crafts - This website provides ideas for crafts that students can make as they celebrate the Chinese New Year in the classroom.
• Chinese New Year Lesson Plan - This lesson plan has students prepare for and celebrate the Chinese New Year in their classroom.
• Drama and Music Activity - This website provides students with video of the Lion Dance, which is usually seen on the Chinese New Year. It also allows them to hear the music associated with the Chinese New Year. Students can take the dragons they made from the Chinese New Year crafts and dance along with the video.
• Geography Book - This interactive book provides students with an inflatable globe and stickers to show where they are located in the world, in relationship to other countries.
• Information About China - This website provides information about
  China from the World Factbook.
• Lesson Plan - This a lesson plan about the Chinese New Year. It tells you all of the materials you need to explore this topic with your students.
• Lesson Plan About Great Wall - This lesson plan focuses on how long the Great Wall is. It is for grades 2-5.
• Lesson Plans - This website has a lot of good lesson plans about
  China for younger students.
• List of Books About China - This is a booklist I made that contains some interesting books about
  China.
• Maps of China - This website provides various maps of
  China that students could examine.
• Michigan Social Studies Standards - This is a list of the Social Standards and Benchmarks for
  Michigan.
• Music - This website provides Chinese music that you can purchase for use in your classroom. It could be a good resource to start off a thematic unit on
  China. Teachers just have to browse the catalog and choose Audio CD’s for
  China.
• National Social Studies Standards - This is a link to the ten Social Studies themes.
• Newspaper - This is a link to the Washington Post for Kids, in order to introduce students to the newspaper. It also has a great section on a boy from
  China.
• Olympics Viewpoints - This website provides students with information about the 2008 Olympics and allows them to contact the Olympic Organizing Committee. It would be a good website for a lesson on issues in
  China.
• Time for Kids - This is another good website to introduce students to the news.
• World Almanac: China - This almanac for kids gives a lot of information about every aspect of