Unit Plan
The British Museum

The British Museum: Ancient China: Tombs and Ancestors

For Students 9th - 10th
An engaging site that features ancient China's beliefs of afterlife. Students can explore an ancient tomb and learn about its important artifacts. There is also an ancient Chinese story and a game about the tomb.
Primary
Other

Ancestors in the Americas: Yick Wo vs. Hopkins

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough coverage of the discriminatory case Yick Wo vs. Hopkins, which overturned a law aimed at restricting Chinese laundries.
Website
Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum: A Late Qing Dynasty Home

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia-rich exhibition that explores the traditional Chinese home of the Huang family. With excellent photographs and cross-sections of the structure of the home and its surroundings. Includes a fascinating genealogy of the family...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Ancestors in the Americas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Site examines the social, political, and economic issues that influenced the first Asian migration to the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes guidelines for helping students distinguish truthful, historically...
Handout
Other

Ancestors in the Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site to a television documentary on Asian immigrants. Watch movie clips and read quotes from actual immigrants.
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San Jose State University

San Jose State University: Sacrifices

For Students 9th - 10th
This virtual exhibition project discusses many aspects of ancient Chinese history, including ancestral worship, weaponry, sacrifice, the Shang Dynasty, gods, the Chou Dynasty, burials, Emperor Shihuangdi, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
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Curated OER

Unesco: China: Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

For Students 9th - 10th
It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003. The Three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning Province include the Yongling Tomb, the Fuling...