Ancient China and India Project
In this project you will
examine the relationship
between the physical
geography and culture and
history of either the
civilization of ancient China
or India. There are two
major components and
four related steps of this
project:
Two Major Components:
1. Poster Board and Display of either Ancient China or India. In the poster board, you will
answer the following essential question:
How has China or India’s physical geography influenced its cultural development, including:
customs and belief systems, history, government structures, and economic development?
Your poster board should address five specific areas:
1. Physical geography
2. Customs & Belief Systems (culture)
3. History & Timeline
4. Government
5. Economics & Natural Resources
As with other poster board projects that you have completed in the past, this one should be a
combination of text and images. Along with your poster board, you may have a model that
further amplifies your topic and helps to answer the essential question.
2. Write an essay that compares the two civilizations. The essay will be written in class where
you will participate in a peer editing and revising session. When a final draft is complete you
will type the essay and turn it in to your teacher. In the essay you will answer the following
essential question:
By comparing the cultural development of China and India, including physical
geography, customs and belief systems, history, government structures, and economic
development, do you find the two civilizations to be more or less similar? Why?
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Four Related Steps:
1. Research and compile notes on
either ancient China or India.
2. Based on your notes, create a poster
board detailing the five major areas
of either India or China.
3. Participate in “Asia Night” with other
7th grade honors history students
where you have two tasks. First, you
will display your board and answer
questions about your topic from
other students or adults ask as they
examine and inspect the various displays. Secondly, you will view and examine the
civilization that you did not create a poster board on. For example, if your poster board
is on China, you will look at as many poster boards and displays of India that you can.
While you view other displays and ask your colleagues questions, you will take notes on
the “other” civilization. You will need these notes for step four.
4. Using the notes for your own topic civilization, and the notes that you gathered from
others on Asia Night, you will write an essay comparing the two civilizations in which
you answer the essential question above.
Dates & Timeline:
Week of March 25: Research in the Library Media Center.
Week of April 1: Poster Board Creation at home
Week of April 8: Asia Night in the evening (date TBD)
Week of April 22: Write paper in Class
Websites:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/
http://www.harappa.com/
http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/
https://sites.google.com/site/1ancientcivilizationsforkids/home
http://bronze.uco.edu/passport/india/history.html
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html
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