Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself

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From Buddhism, feng shui, and porcelain pottery to gunpowder, dynasties, and trade routes, this interactive activity guide explores the incredible ingenuity and history of ancient China with more than 20 hands-on projects. Comprehensive coverage of the ancient culture—everything from the daily lives of both the rich and poor to the history of architecture, dynasties, religion, trade, and science—are combined with step-by-step instructions for creating Chinese inventions with ordinary household materials. Key ...

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From Buddhism, feng shui, and porcelain pottery to gunpowder, dynasties, and trade routes, this interactive activity guide explores the incredible ingenuity and history of ancient China with more than 20 hands-on projects. Comprehensive coverage of the ancient culture—everything from the daily lives of both the rich and poor to the history of architecture, dynasties, religion, trade, and science—are combined with step-by-step instructions for creating Chinese inventions with ordinary household materials. Key vocabulary, time lines, and factual sidebars are included to further educate young readers about this innovative society and its continuing influence on modern culture.

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Editorial Reviews

Bookselling This Week
What a fun book! Use it on weekends, holidays, and vacation to keep kids busy and having fun.
The Gazette
Candy for the eyes and the brain. . . . Activities include making a Chinese puppet, an abacus, a miniyurt, a compass, a paper snowflake, ice cream and a Chinese string instrument.
Children's Literature - Nicole Peterson Davis
In ancient China, wise scholars were experts in many subjects. This book will give young scholars the opportunity to learn about many of the same subjects. The book explains the dynasties, famous and influential Chinese citizens, and many of the inventions that came from China. Each of these topics contains a description and historical background information, as well as instructions for making a related object with materials from your own home. Topics include: cities and architecture, paper, writing and education, warriors and weapons, jade and silk, merchants and trade, explorers and sailing, healers and medicine, farming, food, time and space, music, seismographs, and numbers. The projects will help students gain a better understanding of the each principle due to the hands-on nature of learning that results from unertaking these projects. This book is a great resource for adults teaching children about China or any of the disciplines rooted in China. Reviewer: Nicole Peterson Davis
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781934670026
  • Publisher: Nomad Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/2008
  • Series: Build It Yourself Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 592,689
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 7.90 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Lance Kramer is a journalist and former ESL teacher. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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