The EASC electronically reproduces these materials, some of which are also available in print form. They are not necessarily written or developed by Indiana University faculty unless explicitly noted.
General Asia
- Asia for Educators: This site contains a multitude of information and primary sources for educators and students about Chinese and Japanese history and culture from pre-history to present. There are also materials on Korea and Southeast Asia.
- Ask Asia: A K-12 resource from the Asia Society for teachers, students, and school leaders.
- Audiovisual Lending Library: Videos on China, Japan, and Korea. Mail-out lending service is available for K-12 teachers outside of the Bloomington area.
- Committee on Asian Security: Events, papers, and internet resources on security issues in East Asia.
- Culture Speak: Personal Reflections as Teaching Resources available for China, Japan, and Korea
- Doing Business with the Three Dragons: Commerce and Culture: A Reader on Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong (also listed under Korea)
- East Asian Box Lessons: Sets of themed boxes containing items and artifacts. These boxes may be borrowed by teachers in Indiana.
- East Asian Holidays & Celebrations: listing of holidays in China, Japan, and Korea.
- MLA Language Map of the US: created using census records it shows the linguistic and cultural composition of the U.S.
- NCTA Teaching About Asia Lesson Plans:
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Distance Learning Program: Students and teachers are able to explore the museum and interact with museum staff members from their classrooms.
- Selected Bibliography of Resources on East Asia: A list to guide middle and high school educators as they select materials for use in their classes.
- Teaching East Asian Literature in High School:
- Teaching East Asian Music in the Elementary School Lesson Plans
China
- Cultures Speak: Personal Reflections as a Teaching Resource: Changes & Transformations in China.
- China Box: A set of themed boxes of artifacts that may be borrowed by Indiana teachers. Includes suggested activities and descriptions of each item.
- Forbidden Gardens : A Chinatown Tiny Town: Qin's Terra-cotta army and the Forbidden Garden now in Texas! (at one-third scale)
- ICLASS - Indiana Chinese Language/Culture Association of Secondary/Elementary Schools
- Morning Sun: A Film and Website about the Cultural Revolution.
- NCTA Teaching About Asia Lesson Plans:
- Teaching East Asian Literature in High School:
- Working Paper Series: Language and Politics in Modern China.
Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters and Culture is home to the Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, which uses the new zipu system of character trees.
Japan
- Birth of the Constitution of Japan: The National Diet Library's online exhibit shows the major events and documents involved in the framing and enactment of Japan's Constitution after WWII.
- Commerce and Culture: A Reader on Japan: A report produced in conjunction with the second conference in the Culture & Commerce in Asia series sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the Global Center for International Business (GCIB) at Indiana University on September 24, 1996.
- Cultures Speak: Personal Reflections as a Teaching Resource: Holidays & Celebrations in Japan.
- Imaging/Reading Eros: Proceedings for the conference, Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750-1850, held at Indiana University on August 17-20, 1995.
- Japan Box: A set of four themed boxes of artifacts that may be borrowed by Indiana teachers. The Traditional Japanese Toys kit is available now, and the others are soon to follow.
- Japanese Art Program: Teach 3rd to 6th graders Japanese culture through art.
- Journey Through Japan, a resource for K-12 educators and students, provides background readings, lesson plans, maps, an interactive timeline, and a photo gallery.
- Learning from SHOGUN: This book, now available online for personal and instructional use, includes articles about James Clavell's novel SHOGUN by Elgin Heinz, William Lafleur, Susan Matisoff, Chieko Mulhern, Sandra Piercy, David Plath, Henry Smith, and Ron Toby. The book was published in 1980 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and distributed by the Japan Society of New York. Copyright is held by the authors.
- Learning Scenarios: Japanese National Standards Learning Scenarios created by twelve Japanese language teachers in Indiana and one in Iowa.
- Monsters and the Monsterous in Japanese History and Culture: K-16 resources on premodern and modern Japanese monsters including films for loan through EASC
- NCTA Teaching About Asia Lesson Plans:
- Nihongo Memo was created for Japanese language teachers in
- Teaching East Asian Literature in High School:
Korea
- Cultures Speak: Personal Reflections as a Teaching Resource: Family Life.
- Doing Business with the Three Dragons: Commerce and Culture: A Reader on Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong (also listed under General Asia)
- Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard Kim:
- Interviews in Education About Asia, Fall 1999 about the book
- Korean Studies Review on Lost Names
- NCTA Teaching About Asia Lesson Plans:
- North Korea Zone: a forum and information exchange on North Korea by independent journalist Rebecca MacKinnon
- A Slide Program on Korean Culture, Society & History: Includes over a hundred pictures and sound recordings.
Publications:
- Imaging/Reading Eros: The proceedings for the conference, Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750-1850, held at Indiana University on August 17-20, 1995.
- Journal of Buddhist Literature: This journal has moved to The Institute of Buddhist Studies.
- Journal of Japanese Linguistics: This journal has moved to The Ohio State University.
- Journal of Chinese Religion: This journal has moved to the University of Wisconsin.
- Taoist Resources: Back issues of this journal are available.
- Teaching East Asia in the Middle Schools, Vol. 1 & 2
- Working Paper Series: Language and Politics in Modern China.
Lesson Plans for
Elementary,
Middle, & High School Instructors:
- East Asian Loan Words Crossword Puzzle: A crossword puzzle of English words that are of Chinese and Japanese origin featured in the K-12 Connection Fall 2005 issue. In pdf format.
- Learning Scenarios: Japanese National Standards; Learning Scenarios created by twelve Japanese language teachers in Indiana and one in Iowa.
- NCTA "Teaching About Asia" Lesson Plans:
- Selected Bibliography of Resources on East Asia: A list to guide middle and high school educators as they select materials for use in their classes.
- Teaching East Asia in Middle School (TEAMS) Lesson Plans:
- Volume III (from 1998 Summer Workshop)
- Volume II (from summer 1997)
- Volume I (from our summer 1996 workshop
- Teaching East Asian Literature in High School Lesson Plans:
- Teaching East Asian Music in the Elementary Classroom Lesson Plans
Last updated: 05/12/2008
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