• ABC-CLIO
(http://www.abc-clio.com)
ABC-CLIO focuses on history and social studies resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and librarian in universities and secondary schools. Explore their resources section for middle and secondary schools, as well as their series of Global Studies Handbooks on Asia.

• American Forum for Global Education
(http://www.globaled.org)
The American Forum is a non-profit organization promoting the education of American youth for responsible citizenship. The website features a searchable database of teaching materials, as well as information on a number of travel and study programs to Asia and elsewhere in the world.

• AskAsia
(http://www.askasia.org)
The Asia Society's online clearinghouse for K-12 Asian and Asian American studies.

• Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las)
Offering a searchable database of audio-visual resources on China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, as well as a catalog of selected resources for K-12 education, reviews of new and significant resources, and links to related Web sites.

• ASIANetwork
(http://www.asianetwork.org)
A consortium of more than 150 North American colleges working to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education.

• Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), University of Hawaii
(http://www.eastwestcenter.org/edu-ct.asp)
A full-text database of Asian studies instructional materials containing course syllabi, bibliographies, and other documents.

• The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
(http://www.aasianst.org)
The AAS is the largest society of its kind in the world — a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. The AAS Web site offers information on the organization's publications, conferences, and meetings, as well as listings of study programs, grants and fellowships, and other Asian Studies links and resources.

• China Institute
(http://www.chinainstitute.org/index.html)
A nonprofit, non-partisan educational and cultural institution that promotes the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary Chinese civilization, culture and heritage, and provides the cultural and historical context for understanding contemporary China. Go to Programs for Educators for curriculum materials, information on courses and study tours, and visits to the China Institute Gallery in New York City.

• CIVNET: A Website of Civitas International
(http://www.civnet.org)
An online resource and service for civic education practitioners (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) promoting civic education all over the world.

• The Digital Classroom at NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)
(http://www.archives.gov/education/)
Featuring primary-sources documents, classroom activities, and information on professional development for educators. To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.

• East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University
(http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/index.htm)
The Resource and Publications section has links to a variety of sources for teaching about China, Japan, Korea, and Asia in general.

• The East-West Center: AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools
(http://education.eastwestcenter.org/asiapacificed/APED/index.html)
The East-West Center's AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools supports teaching and learning about Asia and the Pacific region across curriculum areas in elementary and secondary schools. Specifically the program exposes educators to firsthand experience in Asia and the Pacific and to new scholarship on the region through its summer travel seminars; engages educators in an exploration of best practices in curriculum resources and hands-on opportunities that facilitate studies of Asia and the Pacific through its summer institutes and workshops; supports educators in creating teaching units, lessons, case studies, and resource collections that incorporate Asia Pacific material and are correlated to content and student performance standards; and prepares educators to work collaboratively with colleagues nationally and in the Asia Pacific region on exchange projects.

• Education About Asia (EAA) Magazine
(http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm)
Since the publication of its inaugural issue in 1996, Education About Asia has been a tool for K–16 teachers who wish to bring information on Asia to their classrooms. Featuring articles on all areas of Asia, with subjects ranging from ancient cultures and literatures to current events; extensive guides to resources for use in the classroom, including films, books, videos, curriculum guides, websites, software, and other useful educational tools; plus thematic issues on topics of particular interest.

• The Educator's Reference Desk
(http://www.eduref.org)
A project of the Information Institute of Syracuse. Site features more than 2,000 unique lesson plans written and submitted by teachers from all over the U.S.; a collection of more than 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education; and links to more than 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues.

• ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center
(http://www.eric.ed.gov)
The U.S. Department of Education's searchable database of journal and non-journal literature on education. See especially the document Social Studies for the 21st Century: Recommendations of the National Commission on Social Studies in the Schools.

• EROD: Education Resource Organizations Directory
(http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/)
A U.S. Dept of Education directory designed to help people identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics. See especially the List of State Education Agencies.

• ExEAS: Expanding East Asian Studies
(http://www.exeas.org)
Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) website features innovative and easy-to-use materials for teaching about East Asia at the undergraduate level. Visit www.exeas.org to find teaching units, sample syllabi, links and other resources for incorporating East Asia into courses in all subjects in the humanities and social sciences, including world history, world literature, politics, contemporary society, and philosophy.

• Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Smith College
(http://www.smith.edu/fcceas/home.html)
The FCCEAS's Resource Center Library offers items on loan to teachers and has an online catalogue. The Online Resource s section of the website is also an excellent resource.

• GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials
(http://thegateway.org)
The U.S. Department of Education-sponsored GEM is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.

• HistoryChannel.com
(http://www.historychannel.com)
The cable network's online presence. See especially the Classroom section, which includes study guides, teaching ideas, online exhibitions, and more.

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/)
Collections of public-domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented without advertising for educational use. See especially, the Internet East Asian History Sourcebook.

• JGuide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
(http://jguide.stanford.edu)
This "'Virtual Library" of resource links is organized into categories, much like the search engine Yahoo!. Featuring twelve categories, ranging from "Languge, Literature & History" to "Travel & Daily Living."

• The Library of Congress
(http://www.loc.gov)
Featuring an online exhibitions section and a special Learning Page for K-12 educators.

• National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA
(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/)
Featuring complete lesson plans, unit objectives matched to the national history standards, and primary-source documents. See especially the National Standards for World History (1996 Edition) and List of World History Teaching Units.

• National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies at SPICE, Stanford University
(http://spice.stanford.edu/clearinghouse/)
Offering a variety of services and products to elementary and secondary educators interested in teaching and learning about Japanese culture as well as U.S.-Japan relations. Featuring a U.S.-Japan Database that includes information on print materials, videos, artifact kits, software, and teacher developed materials.

• National Committee on U.S-China Relations
(http://www.ncuscr.org)
The National Committee on United States-China Relations promotes understanding and cooperation between the United States and Greater China in the belief that sound and productive Sino-American relations serve vital American and world interests. The National Committee carries out its mission of creating opportunities for informed discussion and reasoned debate about issues of common interest and concern to the U.S., the P.R.C., Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan via conferences and fora, professional exchanges and collaborative projects, public education programs, internships, and publications.

• NationalGeographic.com
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
The National Geographic Society's online "portal." See especially the Education section.

• Primary Source
(http://www.primarysource.org)
Primary Source is a nonprofit professional development organization for K-12 teachers, serving mainly Massachusetts and southeastern New England. Primary Source's China programs consist of seminars and summer institutes conducted by scholars and experienced teachers of Chinese history and culture. Teachers who participate in these programs develop their own curriculum units for teaching general and specific topics related to China.

• Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER), Yale University
(http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/)
Among the many offerings of PIER's East Asian Studies division are an intensive summer institute, travel and field study opportunities in East Asia, professional development workshops, on-site training programs, curriculum development and evaluation, online lesson plans, resource services, consulting and clearinghouse services, and language enrichment opportunities for high school students.

• Smithsonian Education
(http://educate.si.edu/)
"Interprets the collective knowledge of the Smithsonian and serves as a gateway to its educational resources." Featuring Lesson Plans, Field Trips, and Resource Library sections.

• SocialStudies.org, National Council for the Social Studies
(http://www.socialstudies.org/)
An information service for educators. See especially the Teaching Resources section.

• Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
(http://spice.stanford.edu/)
Based at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, SPICE has produced over 100 supplementary curriculum units on Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy. Find free lesson plans on the SPICE Web site, as well as a searchable online catalog.

• U.S. Department of Education: Just for Teachers Section
(http://www.ed.gov/teachers/landing.jhtml?src=fp)

• United States-Japan Foundation
(http://www.us-jf.org/edu.htm)
Since 1980, USJF has supported projects that have involved more than 5,000 pre-college teachers in the US and Japan in mutual study and learning on topics related to the US-Japan relationship, including in-depth study of the culture, society and history of both countries. Through these teachers, as well as through a variety of curriculum materials, web-based collaborative activities, and partnerships between US and Japanese schools, tens of thousands of young people in both countries have begun to study and understand their mutual connections and the importance of the friendship and partnership that binds their two nations so closely.