Useful links
Links to New Zealand and overseas websites and resources to help bring studies of Asia into your classrooms and schools.
New Zealand-based websites and resources
Offers unit plans, additional resource links and information on how to be an Asia Aware school.
Resources based on School Journal
Overseas websites and resources
The Asia Bookroom website is a dedicated online bookshop for schools, teachers, librarians and children. Mention ‘Asia:NZ’ in your order to get a 10 percent discount.
Australian website which offers unit plans and additional resource links to teach about Asia. You can also subscribe to the Asia Education Foundation's free e-newsletter.
The Earth Calendar lists holidays and festivals from around the world.
An Asia Society resource, this US-based site offers fun activities for children including games, stories, maps, crafts, glossaries and more.
Language resources
Japan Foundation Sydney
This Australian website offers a range of Japanese language resources. The most useful for New Zealand learners and teachers are:
- Nihongo - portal site linking to a range of sites and online resources for Japanese learners
- Japanese in Anime and Manga - learn Japanese expressions in anime and manga
- Japan Foundation Sydney - other resources for learners and teachers
Ministry of Education
Hăo! – An Introduction to Modern Standard Chinese
This resource, suitable for Year 7-8 students with no previous knowledge of Chinese comprises an introductory unit and 20 hours of work and is designed to run for 20 weeks with three half-hour lessons a week. A classroom teacher with no knowledge of Chinese can teach the programme.
The resource includes:
- Teacher’s guide and classroom support materials, including transcripts of the CD audio and video.
- A double audio CD
- A video introducing the language.
You can access this resource online:
- Join and log into Digistore.
- Type "Hao introduction" into the search box – this will bring up the introductory unit and the teacher guide.
Hai! – An Introduction to Japanese
This resource, suitable for year 7-8 students with no previous knowledge of Japanese comprises an introductory unit and 20 hours of work and is designed to run for 20 weeks with three half hour lessons per week. It is intended that classroom teacher with no knowledge of Japanese can teach the programme.
The resource includes:
- Teacher’s guide and classroom support materials, including transcripts of the CD audio and video.
- A double audio CD
- A video introducing the specific language.