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Fourth grade students at the Qingzhuhu Foreign Language School who contributed the first Chinese module of OneWorld Classrooms' new Student to Student Language Lab. |
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Dear ,
Celebrating the Chinese New Year in your classroom? Studying China or Latin America? Looking for a means to interact in a meaningful way with classes overseas? Read below for an exciting new -- and free -- global education opportunity.
OneWorld Classrooms has recently launched the first module of our brand new Student to Student Language Lab. (To access this link, you need to enter your username and password, listed below in the left-hand column.) The inaugural module features students from a fourth grade class at the Qingzhuhu Foreign Language School in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Under the guidance of teacher Fu Chi Jing, the students teach a unit of Chinese to their foreign peers through a series of audio, video and flashcard art files. The students also introduce themselves in English, present a PowerPoint tour of their school and, along the way, share aspects of Chinese culture and modern lifestyle. (The audio and video files include English transcripts and the audio and flashcards include Chinese characters and pinyin.)
 Student with artwork she submitted for a Student to Student Language Lab flashcard. The Lab also features audio and video of students teaching their international peers about the Chinese language and culture.
We welcome all K-12 classes to use the Lab, which we will expand throughout the spring with new modules in Spanish, English and Chinese featuring K-12 classrooms from around the world.
We also welcome all K-12 teachers to contribute content featuring students sharing their first language, which we will post in future Lab modules. Participation is FREE for all classes. Interested teachers may send an Email to lab@oneworldclassrooms.org for more information and content contribution guidelines. (While the Lab will initially feature Spanish, English and Chinese modules, we welcome contributions in any world language!)
We hope you and your class will participate!
Please see below for other OneWorld Classroom online resources focusing on China.
Gong he xin xi! Happy Chinese New Year!
The OneWorld Classrooms Team
 Front and back of a Lab flashcard.
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To reinforce your China unit further, try the following OWC Online Classroom Travel Resources:
Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China (for grades 6-12) -- 25 multimedia tours, featuring photo slide shows, video and audio, that explore China's culture, past and present, focusing on five Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Qufu and Xi'an.
China E-Travel Logs (for grades 3-8) -- Visit famous cities and sites throughout China with our adventure team, featuring true and traditional stories, guess-who animal poems, Q & A's with Chinese students and lots more.
The China Classroom Package (for teachers) -- A set of links, lesson ideas, reading materials and fun activity suggestions that help teachers connect their China unit to all areas of the curriculum.
The Chinese Calligraphy Room -- A 3rd grader at the Shangyin Elementary School in Shanghai, China and 7th, 8th and 10th grade students at the Lushan Middle School in Changsha, Hunan Province share their knowledge and skill.
Cultural How-to's -- Demonstrations about Chinese culture featuring high school students from the Huarong County Middle School in Huarong, Hunan Province; with audio and video.
Links to all of OneWorld Classrooms' China Classroom Travel Resources are available here. Artwork, music, videos, audio files and PowerPoint presentations created by K-12 classrooms in China that have participated in OneWorld Classrooms are available in our Electronic Cultural Exchange Library.
To access this content, you need to enter your username and password (listed in the left-hand column).
 Screenshot of Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China page. | |
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