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China's Urbanization and Economic Documentary Film 'Ten Thousand Shovels: Rapid CC118 Development Urban Growth in China,' Produced by Karen C Resources List -- for reference only Please contact us about specific items CatalogID ItemTitle ItemDescription Category ResourceID (Country) GRADES 8-12+. This unit examines the causes and effects of China's development boom. A DVD of the 10,000 Shovels: China's Urbanization and Economic documentary film 'Ten Thousand Shovels: Rapid CC118 Development Urban Growth in China,' produced by Karen C. Seto, is included. / text and DVD // Stanford, CA: Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Curriculum Education, 2006. Units 1904 This multi-unit curriculum is designed to assist CC A Humanities Approach to Chinese History teachers in integrating a humanities approach into the teaching of Chinese history. // Boulder, CO: Curriculum Social Science Education Consortium, 2002. Units 1535 GRADES 9-12. This curriculum package covering 200 years of history offers lessons and readings on many topics, such as Confucius and the Analects, China CC127 A Journey Shared: The United States & China trade treaties, mapping revolutionary China, population, and China's Future. / DVD and CD-ROM // Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Curriculum Historian, 2008. Units 1972 GRADES 6-10. Lessons in this unit focus on specific aspects of the Silk Road, from language to art to CC120 Along the Silk Road music. / text, DVD, and audio CD // Stanford, CA: Stanford Program on International and Cross- Curriculum cultural Education, 2006. Units 1906 Along the Silk Road: People, Interaction & Cultural Curriculum CC037 Exchange Curriculum Unit by SPICE // SPICE, 1988. Units 2076 GRADES 5-8. This curriculum set has a wide range of activities on ancient China adaptable to various grade levels. Topics include: Confucius and CC078 Ancient China Confucianism, China's First Emperor: Shi-Huangdi, The Han Dynasty, The Mongols, The Ming Dynasty, The World of the Yongle Emperor. / Teacher's Guide and 5 magazines // Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Curriculum Publishing Company, 1993-1999. Units 1308 GRADES 5-9. This unit covers 11,000 years of ancient Chinese history (8,000 years briefly) and explores CC110 Ancient China the Xia, Shang, Chou/Zhou, Ch'in/Qin, Han, and T'ang Dynasties. // Culver City, CA: Social Studies Curriculum School Service, 2004. Units 1786 GRADES 7-12+. This teacher resource describes 6 themes critical to understanding Chinese culture as well as China's relation to the world. The unit CC034 Central Themes for a Unit on China includes a 4-week unit developed by New York State for 9th-graders. Class handouts include maps and a time line. // East Asian Curriculum Project New York: Curriculum Columbia University, 1989. Units 13 GRADES 5-12+. These materials are resources for teaching about China in the 1980s. They contain over 20 units with handouts, questions, and CC003 Changing Images of China suggested activities. // Center for Teaching International Relations Denver: University of Curriculum Colorado, 1986. Units 25 GRADES 10-12+. The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the study of the future by teaching some of the tools that futurists use. Through small group activities, students become CC064 China and the World in 2010 familiar with and proficient in using the following tools: historical analogy, trend extrapolation, cross- impact matrix, and a decision maker's flowchart. // Stanford Program on International and Cross- Curriculum Cultural Education, 1998. Units 60 China in the World: A History Since 1644 including Hundreds of Documents, Photos, and Other Primary CC104 China in the World: A History Since 1644 Sources ed. Curriculum Specialists at Primary Source, Inc. // Curriculum Primary Source Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2009. Units 2032 GRADES 5-12. This unit uses modern China as a case study of economic development. It takes into account the roles that education, poverty, migration, CC132 China in Transition urbanization, and inequality play in the process of development. / 2 DVDs, text // Stanford, CA: Stanford Program on International and Cross- Curriculum Cultural Education, 2012. Units 2022 GRADES 7-12. This 3-part curriculum unit focuses on the following issues facing China today: Exploring CC130 China Matters this Multidimensional Land and People, China: Factory of the World, and China's Environmental Challenge. // Neighbor, Tese Wintz WA: World Curriculum Affairs Council of Seattle, 2008. Units 1981 GRADES 4-8. These lessons can be incorporated all across the curriculum. Ten lessons are provided: The Qin Dynasty, Confucius, The Rooster's Horns, China Mosaic: Multidisciplinary Units for the Middle Shadow Puppets, What's in a Name, Luo Xianda's CC025 Grades Family and Home, Constitutions Across the Sea Research Skills, Agriculture, and Aquaculture. // Seattle, WA: Jackson School of International Studies East Asia Resource Center, University of Curriculum Washington, 1988. Units 1870 China on the World Stage: Weighing the U. S. Curriculum CC134 Response Units 2094 Focuses attention on the United States' evolving relationships with China. The unit considers the China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. CC011 global impact of China's economic growth, social Response transformation, and increasing international involvement. // The Choices ProgramWatson Curriculum Institute for International Studies, . Units 2089 GRADES 9-12+. China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response (part of the Choices Program, Brown University, www.choices.edu) focuses China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. attention on the U.S.'s evolving relationship with CC126 Response China. The Unit considers the global impacts of China's economic growth, societal transformation, and increasing international involvement. // Brown University Choices Program Providence, RI: Brown Curriculum University, 2012. Units 2029 GRADES 9-12+. The unit contains a student text and China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. teacher resource book. Contents include The History CC065 Response of U.S.-Chinese Relations, China's Transformation, and The U.S. Chinese Agenda. // Choices for the 21st Curriculum Century Project Providence: Brown University, 1997. Units 61 GRADES 5-8. This unit on how post Revolutionary War America became a world trading force includes information on the ship 'Empress of China,' how tea, CC112 China Trade in Growing America: 1783-1843 porcelain and silk were produced, and life on sailing ships and in old Canton. / Study guide with reproducible activities and response key, hands-on historical documents // Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Curriculum Publications, 2002. Units 1851 GRADES 5-12+. This Jackdaw Study Guide provides activities and ideas that encourage students to CC040 China: A Cultural Heritage discover the historical significance of primary source materials. // Amawalk, NY: Golden Owl Publishing, Curriculum 1993. Units 19 GRADES 6-12+. This unit is organized in 5 major phases, or 'lis,' each focusing on a major aspect of China: A Simulation of Chung Kuo, the World's Most CC108 Chinese history, culture, and geography. Students Ancient Civilization participate in various activities. / teachers guide and 7 copies of 5 different student guides // Fort Curriculum Atkinson, WI: Interact Publishers, Inc., 1996. Units 1745 GRADES 5-12+. This unit includes 3 still video programs, a teaching manual, creative workbook, CC100 China: History Through Art and Architecture and teaching poster, which feature Chinese history, art, and architecture. // Boulder, CO: Alarion Press, Curriculum Inc., c. 2003. Units 1627 GRADES 9-12+. This issue of National Geographic focuses on China and includes a map of the country. CC125 China: Inside the Dragon A few of the topics are Beijing and the Olympics, the Yellow River, and China's new middle class. // Curriculum Tampa, FL: National Geographic, May 2008. Units 1967 GRADES 7-12+. This unit includes a textbook, teacher's manual, and compact disc of musical selections. Activities such as role-playing and CC075 China: Understanding Its Past simulations support the text in teaching about China of the 20th century and the events and culture that shaped it. // Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Curriculum 1998. Units 1286 GRADES 8-12+. This Newsweek Issues Today Map and Teacher's Guide helps students interpret data CC117 China's Century about China and the United States and evaluate the relationships between the two countries.. // Curriculum Mountain Lakes, NJ: Newsweek, Inc., 2006. Units 1885 Transferred to DVD. This video examines the Tang Dynasty, known as the golden age of Chinese history, and its profound contribution to the humanistic traditions of China, as CC009 China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang well as Korea and Japan. Chung-wen Shih, prod. The Annenburg/CPB Collection Burlington, VT 1993 // Chung-wen Shih, prod. Burlington, VT: The Curriculum Annenburg/CPB Collection, 1993. Units 2055 GRADES 9-12+. This unit focuses on the key moments of the Cultural Revolution and the effects of the revolution on China's economy, politics, CC111 China's Cultural Revolution society, culture, and foreign relations. It also looks at the experiences of those who lived during the revolution. / Text and 2 CDs, book // Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Curriculum Education, 2005. Units 1849 GRADES 5-8. This December 2004 issue of 'Calliope' features sections on the Manchus in China, the CC109 China's Qing Dynasty A.D. 1636-1911 Forbidden City, McCartney's Mission, and others. Activities include designing a dragon robe and writing Chinese characters. // Peru, IL: Cobblestone Curriculum Publishing Company,
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