Unit of Study: Introduction to Ancient China
Essential Questions: How does the geography influence the development of ancient civilizations? How do
ancient cultures influence our world today?
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
China Map Project –
http://www.ellenjmc
henry.com/homesc
hoolfreedownloads/histo
rygames/chinamap.p
hp
Brainstorm: Students
will discuss the
definition and purpose
of walls. Teacher will
list student responses
on board or chart.
Teacher will guide
students in discussing
the following:
a. What is a wall?
b. List different kinds of
walls
1) Wall of a building
or room
2) Fire walls
3) Tsunami
4) Hail
5) Wall cloud
6) Wall Street
(actual walled street
in pre-Revolutionary
New York City
7)
Walls lining the
Read excerpts
from the books
The Great Wall by
Elizabeth Mann (?)
or You Wouldn’t
Want to be a
Great Wall Builder.
Read Ms. Frizzle’s
Adventures: Imperial
China by Joanna
Cole. Most of the
inventions run along
the bottom of the
pages.
Show the Chinese
inventions you
brought in.
Highlight the
boundary of China,
the Yellow and
Yangtze River, the
Great Wall, the
Himalayan
Mountains, Beijing
and Shanghei
Brainstorm why they
think the Great Wall
was built.
Compare and
contrast the two
accounts of the
building of the
Great Wall.
Read and discuss
pp. 9 and 10 of the
mini-book on
Ancient China.
Assessment: Pages
12 and 13 of the
mini-book
intestines
8)
Land forms such
as mountains, rivers,
oceans, etc. 9)
Ideas
(prejudice)
10)
Feelings (anger,
disappointment, fear)
Introduce the term
dynasty: a succession
of rulers from the same
family
- Explain who was the
emperor that began
the building of the
Great Wall of China
(Qin Shihuangdi, first
emperor, begins
construction of Great
Wall)