Museums are storehouse of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient China provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of China. These projects and activities highlights the economic, pollical, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based.
Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups:
- Dragons
- Chinese opera masks
- Terra-cotta statues
- royal silk robes
- Pagodas
- Porcelain
- Models of the great Wall
- Ceremonial kites
- Chinese paper cuts