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Grade 4  
Unit 5: Make a Plan
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
by Ed Young

Internet Connection Activity
Chinese Dynasties    Cross Curricular
China
Connect to this link:
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/china/index.shtml


  1. Click Timeline. Click the name of a dynasty to learn more about it.

  2. Find and write down several important facts about a dynasty. For example, what important inventions, ideas, or construction projects came from this dynasty?

  3. Contribute your information to a class timeline about dynasties.

Portraits of Chinese Emperors
Connect to this link:
http://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html


  1. Click Emperor attended by court women.

  2. Click the Back arrow. Click Emperor Taizu.

  3. Go back and click Queen of Kublai Khan.

  4. Go back. Scroll down to Qing Dynasty and click Portrait and Formal Portrait for Emperor Kangxi.

  5. Study other portraits. What do they tell you about China and Chinese culture?


Internet Connection Activity
Chinese Culture    Find Out More
Chinese History
Connect to this link:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,405621,00.html


  1. Click on History Timeline. Read the timeline information to learn more about Chinese history.

  2. Choose six events on the timeline. Find notecards and write the name of each event on a separate one. Write the date of the event on the back of the notecard.

  3. Use notecards to form an interactive timeline, placing events in order according to date.

Great Wall of China
Connect to this link:
http://library.thinkquest.org/18802/photofrb.htm


  1. Learn about the Forbidden City.

  2. Click the green arrow. Look at the pictures.

  3. Click Article to learn more about the Great Wall.


Internet Connection Activity
Facts about China    Leveled Books
The People's Republic of China
Connect to this link:
http://www.chinatoday.com/general/a.htm


  1. Scroll down to read facts about China.

  2. Find at least five facts that are new to you.

  3. Make drawings to illustrate two of the facts.

General Information about China
Connect to this link:
http://www.cbw.com/general/gintro.htm


  1. Click Brief Introduction to the Country. Read, and then click the Back arrow.

  2. Click Anhui Province to find out facts. Go back.

  3. Explore two other areas of China in the same way. Compare the facts about the three regions.