Virginia Heather Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 We're in the process of adopting a little girl from China, so this summer I'd like to teach my crew a bit more about Chinese culture/geography/history/etc... and I'd like to make it as fun as possible! Any ideas/resources/links/what-nots you might pass along?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Congratulations! Here is a link to a unit study on China that we did last school year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Definitely watch Wild China if you can, a 6 part miniseries exploring all of the regions of China--absolutely breathtaking! It is available streaming on Netflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 We just started a unit on China -we are using http://www.unitstudy.com/ExpeditionChina.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebereid Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I've been doing a gentle China unit with my son. He's only 4 so he actually hasn't had much interest and we didn't do a ton of things. Not sure how old your others are so not sure which of these would work for them. Here are some of the things we did...or would have done had he not got bored too soon. *Label a China map. *Learn about Mt Everest and some of the people who climbed it. We found a cool video (I thought it was cool at least) about a blind man who climbed mt Everest. I found a "choose your own adventure" story for older kids that seemed fun. And my son loved the very silly picture book "Pog Climbs Mt Everest." *Great Wall: watch a video about the Great Wall (I found a few on discovery education, maybe there is something on YouTube), find it on Google Earth and then make a "great wall" out of legos. *Learn about inventions that came out of China (Look What Came From China! by Miles Harvey or do a Google search) and make your own compass or kite (http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-invented-the-kite/) *Learn to count to ten in Chinese and learn about the art of calligraphy. Then get out the paints and paint your name or a word or two in Chinese (google search your name and you can find Chinese characters to copy). Great picture books about writing in Chinese are In the Park and In the Snow by Huy Von Lee. National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/) has some lesson plans for China but they are all a bit too high level for my son so we didn't actually do any of them. They look fantastic, though. Also, http://asiasociety.org/ is a good resource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Heather Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 Wow, these are excellent ideas!! Thank you so much for sharing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 If you look at my blog (in my siggy) there is a rough unit study on China in the side bar. Many of the books are also in this list. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 We did a unit study of China last year. http://dottiesuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/continents-asiacultures-china.html With all our Geography stuff we used Time for Kids - Around the World a lot. It has links to hear the language and information on landmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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