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OUTREACH TO SECONDARY CLASSROOMS
IN THE DENVER-BOULDER METRO AREA

“Thanks so much for presenting at Fairview. You had one of the most popular presentations of the whole day!” -- Student Coordinator of the Fairview High School International Day

The Center for Asian Studies and Program for Teaching East Asia CU-Boulder offer a secondary classroom visit program. Presentations by CU-Boulder students are available on China, Japan, India, and Korea.

Presentations for the 2009-2010 school year cover a variety of topics from Japanese tea ceremony to Chinese arts and culture, to Korean holidays. These presentations are equally suitable for History, World Civilizations, and Literature classes.

Japan	“Chado: The Way of Tea ”	Contact: Raechel Dumas, raechel.dumas@colorado.edu
	“Perspectives on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Japanese Experience Through Art”	Contact: Raechel Dumas, raechel.dumas@colorado.edu
China	“Chinese Invention of Paper and Paper cutting ”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
	“Chinese Food and Culture ”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
	“History of Chinese Calligraphy”	Contact: Lydia Halvorson, lydia.halvorson@colorado.edu
Korea	“Traditional Holidays in Korea ”	Contact: Ashley Breen, ashley.breen@colorado.edu

The outreach program presentations are free of charge due through generous grants awarded by the Freeman Foundation and by CU’s Service Learning Program. We invite you to schedule one or all of our student speakers to visit your classes.

These classroom presentation are designed for a 50-minute class period, but can be modified to meet teacher's needs. Our multimedia presentations are designed to engage all learning styles.

OUTREACH TO ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
IN THE BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) offers Boulder Valley elementary teachers the opportunity to enrich their classroom units on China and Taiwan, Japan, and India through TEA’s “It’s Elementary” service project.  Through this program, CU undergraduates enrolled in Year 2 or higher of Chinese, Japanese, or Hindi, and international students from China, Japan and Taiwan, train with TEA staff to develop and teach lessons on language and culture in Boulder schools in conjunction with the district’s elementary grades curriculum on Asia. Each intern or a pair is assigned to a Boulder Valley classroom during the class unit on Asia and teaches multiple lessons to the class, in cooperation with the classroom teacher. Lessons may focus on simple language, writing, holidays and festivals, school life, the Chinese New Year, and other aspects of culture. For details, please visit the TEA website.

ASIA DAY

One of the most popular outreach events for the Denver Metro and CU-Boulder community is Asia Day.  Funded in part by Freeman Foundation grants, Asia Day is a one-day festival for children and adults.  Asia Day boasts a full day of music, dance performances, documentaries on various Asian cultures, arts and crafts demonstrations, a hands-on activity room for children, and informative talks given by CU faculty as well as CAS and TEA faculty/staff.

For more information about Asia Day, please check out the Asia Day homepage.