#10: China's Famous Inventions
From the Introduction:
Even before the first dynasty, Chinese people were thinking up ways to make new things, or to improve things that already existed. The Chinese are known for the “four great inventions”:
the magnetic compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing.
These four inventions are especially famous because they were all first thought up in China, and also because their impact on world history has been so enormous. The Chinese have thought up many other inventions. Some of these inventions were actually key improvements on technology first made somewhere else. Other inventions helped spark inventive minds in other civilizations. When learning about China’s inventions, you will be learning about inventions from all over the world, and how great minds have exchanged ideas to develop technology and science through the modern age. Furthermore, you will be also experiencing the history and culture of China through the ages.
Works discussed include:
Magnetic Compass
Gunpowder
Papermaking
Printing
Chinese Ceramics
Chinese Silk
Chinese Metallurgy
Inventions in Astronomy
Inventions in Mathematics
Inventions in Water Control
Inventions in Aerodynamics
Chinese Vehicles
Book includes teacher introduction and planning strategies, bulletin board resources and ideas, class discussion topics and projects, approaches to active learning, student information sheets, student activities, and references and resources.
Included CD-ROM (Win/Mac) features story-telling in English and Mandarin, story handouts in English/Chinese and Pinyin, teacher tips, additional student handouts and activities, photos, internet resources, puzzles, and interviews with Chinese publishers, translators, and a graphic novelist.
The Chinese Culture Active Learning Series is endorsed by Huang Youyi, Vice President of China International Publishing Group and Vice President of Translators Association of China, and Lin Wusun, Retired President of CIPG, Senior Editor and Translator.
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Contributors to this volume include Aimee Bothwell, Donna Breniman (West Lake Middle School, Apex, NC), Dr. Jane Liedtke ( CEO, OCDF), Joyce Melton-Ma (Christian Life Middle School, Rockford IL), Dr. Jason Patent (Stanford University), Georgina Van Dort (Western Academy of Beijing), Michelle Wu (The Spence School, New York, NY), and Megan Zaroda (OCDF).
Updated 03.12.2010
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