TEACH CHINA
Resources for students and educators
TEACH CHINA
Resources for students and educators
Asian Art Museum Storyteller Leta Bushyhead tells a story about a woman named Meng Jiang-nu and the Great Wall of China.
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Jean Macdermid, tells a story about five Chinese brothers in the museum’s Chinese ceramics collection gallery.
Chinese vases and jars are sometimes painted with narrative scenes presented almost as though a scroll had been wrapped around the surface. Two unrelated narrative scenes encircle the body and neck of this vase.
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells a story that explains why dragons are often depicted holding or chasing round objects covered in flames in Chinese art.
Students will create collaborative maps represent their community and connect this approach to the collaboration between Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese cartographers working at the Chinese court during the 17th century.
The Tang and Song dynasties were the golden ages of Chinese classical literature in general, and poetry in particular.
Money trees offer a fascinating glimpse into regional and metropolitan Chinese Han dynasty beliefs. Most of these rare sculptures were probably made in Sichuan province and other parts of western China.
Asian Art Museum Storyteller Fred Sheng tells an exciting lunar new year story about a race that determined the order of the Chinese zodiac, illustrated with artworks from the Asian Art Museum’s collection.
Students demonstrate mastery of narrative content and develop vocabulary by supplying words deleted from a text of The Monkey King story and through an expository writing activity summarizing The Monkey King.
Leta Bushyhead, Asian Art Museum Storyteller, tells a Chinese folktale inspired by objects in the museum’s collection.
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Major support for the Asian Art Museum’s school programs and resources is provided by the Dhanam Foundation, United Airlines, The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and Daphne and Stuart Wells. Additional support is provided by Ms. Jane B. Dalisay and Mr. John W. Kirkman and an anonymous donor. Teacher professional development programs are supported by Wells Fargo.
General support for education is provided by the Dhanam Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, The Charles D. and Frances K. Field Fund, Dodge & Cox, and The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation. Support is also provided by an endowment established by The Hearst Foundations.
Teach China was created in collaboration with the following arts organizations:
