Golden Legacy Curriculum
A Curriculum
Sponsored by
the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
and History San José (formerly San Jose Historical Museum)
Golden Legacy is a set of curriculum materials on Chinese
and Chinese American culture that won the 1994 Santa Clara County Reading
Council Award. The Golden Legacy was produced as a joint project of the
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project and the San Jose Historical Museum (now History San José).
A hard copy Golden Legacy curriculum was donated to each elementary school in Santa
Clara in 1994.
Golden Legacy curriculum materials were designed to complement
the California State History-Social Science Framework of the third, fourth
and fifth grades in public schools. Many of the curriculum units can also be
used in higher grades, particularly when students study World Civilization
(grade 6 and 7) and U.S. History (grade 8).
In 1999, CHCP received a Hewlett Packard Silicon Valley Grant
to produce an inexpensive CD-ROM version of Golden Legacy, which is given to eligible local schools and libraries.
In 2001, CHCP awarded a $8,500 grant to History San José
for a a third edition of Chinatown, San Jose USA, originally published by the San Jose Historical Museum Association (now History San José) in 1991. CHCP and History San José will work together to distribute both a copy of this book and the Golden Legacy CD to every school in the Santa Clara Valley.
The 300-page hard copy version (above) includes a set of 20 slides on the Ng
Shing Gung from San Jose’s Chinatown and
the award-winning video Home Base: A Chinatown
Called Heinlenville.
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The CD version (left) includes an MPEG file of the Home Base video and is available to the general public for $10.
The Golden Legacy order form for binder or CD-ROM is here.
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| Golden Legacy contains 20 curriculum
units:
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| New Beginnings
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Immigration
Chinatowns |
| Survival |
Railroad Building
New Almaden Mine
Agriculture |
| Daily Life |
Clothing
Bound Feet
Queues
Value System
Names |
| Traditions |
Lunar Calendar
Celebrations
Symbolism |
| Education System |
Writing System
Abacus
Tangrams
Folk Tales, Songs and Games
Puppetry |
| Lasting Legacy |
Postage Stamps
Conclusion |
| Vocabulary |
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| Teacher Resources |
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| Index |
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Several Golden
Legacy lesson plans are available at AskERIC,
the Internet-based education information service of the ERIC System, part
of the federally- funded Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
at Syracuse University. The pages are at:
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Anthropology/ANT0200.html
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Anthropology/ANT0201.html
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Anthropology/ANT0202.html
Please address questions on Golden Legacy to: chcp.info@gmail.com.
