Exploring China

Seven activities make up a lesson designed to explore Chinese celebrations through grand conversation and crafts. Scholars create plates of Chinese food, a lion mask, paper lanterns, red envelopes with good wishes, and a classroom dragon...

Students locate China on the map. In this Chinese geography, history and culture lesson, students read literature about China. Students participate in paper making, silk making and lantern making activities.

By providing an in-depth and interesting overview of European exploration in the New World, this presentation would be a wonderful complement to a unit on this topic. The 17 slide presentation is both thought-provoking and informative....

Construct a personal journey time-line. First, learners explore the travels of Tweega, the giraffe, in the book Chee-Lin, A Giraffe's Journey by James Rumford. Then they compare and contrast regions in the story and reflect on their own...

Students use the internet to research the culture of China. In groups, they examine the giant pandas and draw their own picture of the two interacting. They also write a paragraph describing what they saw and can share it with the class.

Students participate in various web based activities about ancient China in order to discover the accomplishments of this extraordinary culture. In this history lesson plan, students explore the Chinese paper making recipes, and the...

Young scholars use the Internet to explore the language, culture, history and food of China. They practice writing Chinese characters and participate in hands-on activities.

Young scholars explore China.  In this introduction to Chinese culture lesson, students bring in items or pictures from home that represent Chinese culture. Young scholars create a "Chinese museum" by putting these labeled items on...

Second graders explore the concept of contributions of ancient civilizations.  In this civilization lesson, 2nd graders discover what contributions the ancient civilizations of China made to modern times.  Students discover various...

Students identify Marco Polo and discuss why he took his trip, indicate on map routes Marco Polo took to China and back, describe challenges of traveling along Silk Road, list several interesting aspects of 13th Century Chinese culture,...