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The Asian influence can be seen in many subjects in this KLA.
- In Food Tech, Japanese and Chinese cooking features in our study of foods around the world.
- In Textiles and Design students can choose to research an Asian country for their cultural study.
- In Building Construction students learn about Tangram puzzles, an Asian variation of the jig-saw puzzle
- An introduction to Tangrams.
- A beautiful colourful page with tangrams http://www.strongmuseum.org/kids/tangram.html
- A movie in flash about Tangrams http://www.tygh.co.uk/tan/tan.htm
- A lesson plan on Tangrams http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Geometry/GEO0005.html
- Textiles
http://www.mahidol.ac.th/Thailand/art/textiles.html
- The book of Kimono by Norio Yamanaka
Ethnic Dress by Frances Kennett pages 169-173 - History of the Kimono http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/virtual/kimono/top.html
- The kimono pagehttp://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/japan10.html
- Traditional costume: Kimono http://www.gergo.com/pauline/japan/kimono.htm
- Basics of Chinese cooking http://chinesefood.about.com/cs/cookingbasics/
- History of Chinese cooking http://www.cookingtogether.com/history.html