OneWorld Classrooms Bulletin Celebrate Chinese New Year and Explore Chinese Culture - Free Online Resources

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NOTE:To access the links on the right, you will need to enter the username and password you selected when you registered for OneWorld Classrooms. If you have forgotten yours, please send an Email to password
@oneworldclassrooms.org. 
 
To register (or to change your username and password), please visit our online registration form. 
 
 
The links on the right are also available in the following locations on the OneWorld Classrooms Web site:
 
 
 
 
 
OneWorld Classrooms offers a variety of FREE online resources that allow you to travel with your students to China -- from the comfort of your own classroom.
 
For cultural exploration tours to many different regions in China try one of these: 
  • For Elementary/Middle School Grades -  Visit famous cities and sites throughout China with our E-Travel Logs, featuring true and traditional stories, cultural information and student Q & A's.

  • For Middle/High School Grades - Explore China's culture, past and present, with our Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China. The site contains 41 multimedia tours, featuring photo slide shows, video and audio, focusing on seven Chinese cities/regions: Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Qufu, Chengdu, Xi'an and Tibet.


For arts and literature connections, try these:

  • The Chinese Calligraphy Room features a third grader from Shanghai and high school students from Changsha (Hunan Province) sharing their skills in the ancient art of calligraphy, with photos, audio and video.
  • Ancient Chinese Poetry Book, illustrated by 7th graders from Dali (Yunnan Province), explores the work of China's most famous poets (with Chinese text and English translations).
  • Amazing Asian Animals is a poetic guess-who Asian animal safari, featuring poems using traditional Chinese forms.
  • The Chinese Idiom Grab Bag features five common Chinese idioms and the short traditional stories that give them meaning.
  • Chinese Folk Stories features eight popular traditional stories from China.
 
For Chinese language lessons, featuring students from China sharing Mandarin through audio, video, artwork flashcard and PowerPoint files, visit our Student to Student Language Lab.
 
To meet elementary, middle and high school students from Shanghai, Yunnan Province and Hunan Province and take tours of their schools and towns - visit our China Classroom Travel Resources Index.
  
For downloadable PowerPoint and video tours featuring Chinese students, or for videos of Chinese students playing traditional Chinese instruments and performing music, visit our Electronic Cultural Exchange Library.   
 
Gong he xin xi! Happy Chinese New Year!
 
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