CA Standard:
- Locate and describe the
origins of Chinese civilization in the Huang-He Valley during the Shang
Dynasty.
- Explain the
geographic
features of China that made governance and the spread of ideas and good
difficult and served to isolate the country from the rest of the
world.
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Lesson
description:
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Ancient Chinese
Geography is actually interesting. I personally prefer to lecture
this topic with a powerpoint presentation. I created my
powerpoint presentation by using pictures from the History
Alive!
Ancient Civilizations textbook. Unfortunately, I cannot obtain
permission to publish them to this site, however, you can find or
create your own visuals to go with this outline. You can
obtain a lot of
public domain pictures at Wikipedia's Commons section. All pictures on this site, including in
the backgrounds are taken from public domain or a granted no profit
license from Wikipedia.
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Division of Land:
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The geographic
terminology I chose is also from the History
Alive! Ancient
Civilizations. It just makes sense and helps to divide the
country we have now into regions that easily show the difficulty of
communications across the large stretch of land in question. The
division also easily helps to explain where the origins of the Shang
dynasty was and why.
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Parts of the Lesson:
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Please take a look at
the outline in the handouts sections. With it, I use the Chinese
Geography Chart, which is created in Excel to help the students
take
notes. If you do not have time to make copies, using cornel notes
is another great way to have the kids organize the information.
After notes, they may also do a writing project explaining where they
thought it was best to live and why or explain why people had a hard
time communicating.
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