Great Wall Of China
• Candidate’s Name: Michael Tidy
• Subject Area: Social Studies
• Grade (PK-12): Grade 12 - World History
• Lesson Topic: The Great Wall of China
• Unit Title: History of the Far East – Asia
• Essential Question: Why are boarders established
and what is their importance!
The Berlin Wall
Hadrian's Wall
North Korean
Boarder
Great Wall of China
What do they have
in Common????
Great Wall of China
Great wall of China
長城
Origins of the Wall
• Qin, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Yan and Zhongshan
Qin Dynasty
Expansion of the
Wall – Han Dynasty
206bc-220Ce
• Han, Sui, Northern and Jin dynasties all repaired,
rebuilt, or expanded sections of the Great Wall
• Over 1 million workers died building the wall
Compare
Ming Dynasty
• Wall followed the desert's southern edge
• Gave up some land
Construction of
wall
• Construction was stronger and more elaborate due to
the use of bricks and stone instead of rammed earth
• Ming devoted considerable resources to repair and
reinforce the walls
• Sections near the Ming capital of Beijing were
especially strong
Great wall in - 1805
Length of Wall
• On April 18 in 2009, the length of the Great Wall of
Ming Dynasty 8,851.8 km (5,500 miles) long from
• Beijing Wall measures over 550 km (342 miles) long
• 723 beacon towers, 7,062 lookout towers, 3,357 wall
platforms and 1,026 other ruins
Visitors Each year
• 2007 the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and
Forestry plan to limit number of visitors to 53,000 a
day
• That is almost 1.934 million people per year, does not
include tourist days lost due to holidays
• It is very difficult to estimate how many visitors each
year
• Could be up around 4 million a year
BEST TIME TO VISIT
• May, September and October, which is when the
weather is most favorable. The rest of the year is
considered to be the low season for tourism
Field Trip
• http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/great-wall.html
• http://www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/map.htm
Walk on the Great
Wall
• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgvrpx_walk-onthe-great-wall-of-china_travel
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKzFnhN8o04&
feature=fvw
• http://www.thesurfbum.com/travels/the-great-wall-ofchina/
quiz
• http://www.pdesas.org/module/content/resources/64
02/view.ashx
End of the Wall
Assignment
• Each student will be given lab time where they will
research any type of wall or country boarder.
• Write a paragraph of descriptive and interesting
information on your boarder or wall
• Such as: Location, Age, Significance,
Empires/Cultures, Conflicts, etc…..
• Provide picture along with paragraph and present to
class
Lesson Objectives
• Students will research and learn the importance of
boarders and how they constantly change and evolve
through out history
procedure
• Before Trip – Students given background information
on the history of the Great Wall
• Access to websites, videos and online quiz
• Post trip – Students will be given outline of an
assignment to complete and present in the next class
rationale
• Why is this technology appropriate: It is appropriate
because it gives students a real life perspective of the
Great wall. They can do almost everything but walk on
the wall itself.
• How it enhances instructional process: Students are
given the opportunity to see the great wall up close and
in person. This is an opportunity that many students
will never get to do in their lifetime.
Reflection
• I fell that using technology really enhances learning
especially in a Social Studies classroom as much of
history is better understood visually than in text. If you
can see it you can believe it.
• The difficult part for me was finding interactive
websites to walk on the great wall. You can see
sections and watch videos but nothing like a virtual
walk was accessible online
End of the Wall