Learn about the Chinese New Year with these specific resources below.
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A website which offers four tasks about China. Resources for each task are given in the teacher tab. Research links offered for student guide.
Task 1 involves your class becoming travel agents researching about the location of China.
Task 2 involves students researching the history of china and its landmarks.
Task 3 involves students exploring the Chinese language, Mandarin - links to hear the pronunciation given.
Task 4 involves students comparing the their new year with the Chinese New Year.
Final assessment available using a rubric cube style assessment.
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Teacher guide to planning an active research lesson on China.
A pilot programme over 2 sessions in duration. Sessions will last 30-40 minutes each. The lessons aim to recognise he similarities and differences amongst us as citizens of different ethic/cultural background in the local and wider community. Resource contains a scheme for the four sessions along with resource material to carry out the lesson activities.
View full descriptionStrand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Teacher should refer to the lesson plan and resource material when planning a lesson exploring the wider world.
Chinese New Year is celebrated on the 28th January this year. Allow time to learn about the culture and traditional games associated with China by participating in the following traditional Chinese games.
View full descriptionStrand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Teacher can use the website as a guide to planning games around the festive Chinese New Year celebrations.
The Chinese New Year Animal for 2017 is the rooster. This blog contains some clever crafty ideas for visual arts in the classroom - create a rooster using paper plates, cardboard, toilet roll, egg holders, plastic cups or paint in your rooster using a plastic fork.
View full descriptionStrand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Teacher can refer to the link when planning a crafty lesson for the Chinese New Year.
Are fortune cookies a chinese tradition? Many students associate the fortune cookie with China but this is an interesting question to explore with your class. The resource guides students in constructing a fortune cookie. Chinese proverbs can be placed in the fortune cookie.
View full descriptionStrand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Suggestions for use: Construct fortune cookies using the following guide with your class. Students can place Chinese proverbs inside the fortune cookies. Swap the fortune cookies to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Note - May need to check students proverbs prior to handing swapping.
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