Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities
China: A Global Trek Activity
Through various online activities, students get to “tour” China and learn about its history, culture, and its people.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
The Global Trek series takes students on a virtual trip around the world, where they can learn about foreign countries through various online activities. In China: A Global Trek Activity (grades 4–8), students visit China, an exotic country that is home to the oldest civilization in the world.
- Students learn about China, including the enormity of its size and population, its current communist government, and more.
- Students can browse a Photo Tour of Places in China, a second slideshow on that subject, and a Photo Tour of People of China.
- China: The Powerhouse of the New Millenium? shares why this nation is poised to take center stage.
- Students get a glimpse of the breadth of Chinese inventions, including the printing press, acupuncture, and gunpowder, in Land of Discovery.
- China: A Basic Timeline traces back highlights from its history to 1600 to 1050 B.C.
- Panda Party shares a math problem that students must solve to uncover a panda’s personality.
- Students can read about Myths from China.
- Students can browse a slideshow of Chinese Art and Architecture.
- People in China shares details on the Han Dynasty, what a typical family is like, the common languages spoken, and more.
- Students learn about Boom Times in China and how China’s youth — interested in reaping profit from their bustling economy — is mobilizing for China’s Second Revolution.
- Censorship is discussed in Google’s China Problem.
- Students go on a Web Hunt: China Yesterday and Today to learn more about the country.
- China’s Olympic Challenge — the world shining a spotlight on their notorious political issues — is explored.
- Students can record what they’ve learned in a Travel Journal.
Learning Objectives
While “touring” China, students will:
- Investigate people, places, and environments.
- Use technological resources to gather information about the country and culture that they visit.
- Study global connections and interdependence by reading online text in order to meet the people of the country they visit.
- Use written and visual language to communicate their experiences, thoughts, feelings, collect pictures and write captions about the memorable moments of their travels.
Related Resources
Students can travel the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe without leaving the classroom, learning about the country of their choice and “meeting” the locals.
- Subjects:Asian History, Asia, Geography and Map Skills, Indigenous Peoples, Social Studies through Literature, Travel and Vacations, Chinese New Year, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- Skills:Online Sources, Social Studies
