Culture Exhibit> Your team will design an online exhibit that communicates the meaning of the term “culture”. You will use ancient China to model what culture looks like.
Create a Mindmeister mind map entitled “8Hums- your team name-Ancient China Culture”. Share it with your teacher.
Use the links provided in the Culture of Ancient China and Culture & Nation Building sections of the Resource page to answer the questions listed below.
Create a node for each of the questions listed below and for any new questions that you have during your research.
Use the note tool to record your answers and research notes. Use the Web link tool to cite each Web site you use in note taking while recording any other bibliographical information at the start of each note.
Create a new node with the title “Culture Exhibit Design”. Brainstorm to design your online museum exhibit. Use the Exhibit Design rubric (see attachment at bottom of page) to guide your designing efforts. Be very specific in your Culture Exhibit Design planning to list:
•How you will use font, background, images, audio, video and navigation to have a well-designed site. You want to your online exhibit to be multimedia rich.
•How many pages your exhibit Web site will have. Don’t forget to definitely have a bibliography page with the correct format. Remember to cite your image, maps, video, etc. sources.
•What will your introduction page communicate about the purpose of your online exhibit?
•What the topic of each page will be specifically describing the components of culture in China around 400 - 200 BC (e.g., food, clothing, etc.).
•Do think about including a page that introduces your online museum, a page that introduces and describes the term “culture”, a page which describes how geography affected the culture of ancient China.
•What your navigation links will be to match the titles for each of your pages.
•How you will use images, audio, and video to represent some of your content. You can create your own audio files to embed into the pages.
•What the images will be? Describe them. Will you draw some of them? Will most of them be from the Web? Note: Remember to save the Web site URL to cite where you get each image from.
•Remember that the purpose of your exhibit is to teach about the culture of China during the Qin Dynasty.
•Use Google Sites to create your exhibit that teaches about culture using China as a model. Go to Resources to visit virtual museums on the Internet. Create a new node with the title “Culture Exhibit Design”. Brainstorm to design your online museum exhibit. Use the Exhibit Design rubric to guide your designing efforts. Be very specific in your Culture Exhibit Design planning to list:
•Remember to add the following to the introduction page to give the visitors to your site more information. Site Creator: your names Date of Construction: Current Date
Questions:
1. What is culture? (Define it)
2. What are components (parts) of culture? (record notes for each component)
3. List each of the components (parts) of culture in a new node. Research to find out what each one looked like during the time of ancient China. Then try to discover what might have caused each of them to be the way they were (cause & effect).
4. How were the terra cotta warriors constructed? Who did the work? What did their construction tell us about culture during the Qin Dynasty?
5. What was the geography like in the territories that would become China? Give specific details about where the mountains, plains, rivers, etc. were.
6. What elevation levels were unsuitable for human settlement? Where were they?
7. Where were the locations that were either too hot or cold for farming?
8. Where were the locations that provided the best sources for water for human and livestock needs?
9. Which locations were best for raising domesticated animals like cattle and pigs?
10. How did the various types of geography of early China affect its culture? (Think cause & effect). Give details about each region and the effect of the geography and climate upon the people that lived there.
Research Check In>
Your teacher will be reviewing your progress by checking your mind maps. Comments will be listed in your mind maps and you will have a consultation with your teacher to support your efforts.
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Ancient China & Modern Nation Building Exhibits>
Part A> Ancient China Nation: Each team will create an online exhibit displaying how China became a nation.
1.The team is to create a Mindmeister mind map entitled “8hums-your team name- China Nation”. Share it with your teacher.
2.Use the links provided in the Culture & Nation Building section of the Resource page to answer the questions listed below.
3.Create a node for each of the questions listed below and the ones you come up with on your own.
4.Use the note tool to record your answers and research notes. Use the Web link tool to cite each Web site you use in note taking while recording any other bibliographical information at the start of each note.
5.The Resources page of ChinaQuest has many sites you read and took notes on to do your culture research. You should go back and review them to answer question 3 (listed below). You will need to use the online databases, the books in the library and search engines like Mahalo and Ask to answer the other two questions.
6.Create a new node with the title “China Exhibit Design”. Brainstorm to design your online museum exhibit. Use the Exhibit Design rubric to guide your designing efforts.
Questions:
Use Google Sites to create your exhibit that teaches how China became a nation. Go to Resources to visit virtual museums on the Internet.
1. What does it mean to be a nation? (Fully define it)
2. How is a nation different than a territory or state or city?
3. What were the steps taken for China to become a nation? What were the main historical events leading up to China becoming a unified country? Explain the history in chronological order.
4. How did China stay unified? What changes were made to help people think they were citizens of China and not of one of the previous territories?
Research Check In>
Your teacher will be reviewing your progress by checking your mind maps. Comments will be listed in your mind maps and you will have a consultation with your teacher to support your efforts.
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Part B> Modern Nations: Each member of your team will then draw one country from the list of nations listed on the Tasks page. Each team member works on his/her own to discover how his/her country became unified into the modern nation we know today. Your team will then meet to share their findings with each other.
The next step is to look for common conditions and patterns in the creation of the nations you researched. You will work together to produce a multimedia presentation for the curators of the World Nations Museum. Your purpose will be to demonstrate the need for them to create another online exhibit to show the patterns of how nations were formed.
You will work to show how nations have been created under varying conditions. You will look for common patterns to create categories of the ways the nations were formed. Your presentation will start by explaining the process and reasons why nations are formed. The next step will be to present specific groups of nations that were created in similar fashion.
1. Each team member chooses one country from the list on the Tasks page to research how it became a nation. Each team member creates a new mind map entitled “8hums- student name- modern nations”. Share it with your teacher.
2. Work to answer the questions below and use the mind map to record your research using the last section (Nation Building Research) of the Resources page. Use the note tool to record your answers and research notes. Use the Web link tool to cite each Web site you use in note taking while recording any other bibliographical information at the start of each note.
3. You will use the answers and research to discuss how nations have been created under varying conditions. You will look for common patterns to create categories of the ways the nations were formed.
4. Each team then works together to design and create the presentation for the curators of the World Nations Museum. The team presentation will start by explaining the process and reasons why nations are formed. The next step will be to present specific examples organized by similarity in their creation. You will use all the countries each of your team members researched. Download the proposal form attached at the bottom of the page and complete it to describe what your presentation will be including the roles for each team member. Your team will also design a rubric to assess how well your presentation meets your goals. Once the proposal is given the go ahead by your teacher, your team will create the presentation.
5. When it comes time to do your presentation, remember to provide enough copies of your rubric so that the other teams can assess your team’s presentation.
Questions:
1. What does it mean to be a nation? (Fully define it)
2. How is a nation different than a territory or state or city?
3. Why are nations formed?
4. Who in society often leads or desires territories to be unified into nations?
5. How was your nation formed? Go into full details describing the process.
6. How are nations formed/created in different ways? What are the different categories that you see for nation creation? Think ESPRAT+G. Were there economic (e.g., home nation of colonial nation is weakened financially), social (e.g., world opinion pressure), political (e.g., diplomacy), religion (e.g., a religion unifies the people in some regions), Arts (e.g., a shared culture forms natural boundaries) and technology (e.g., the power and advanced weapons of one territory over weaker ones).
7. When is the national day for your nation? When was the first national day? What is the history that led up to that first national day? (Do deep research to be able to tell the story of how your nation became an independent nation.)
What questions did you come up with during your research? Add them to your notes and work to answer them!
Research Check In>
Your teacher will be reviewing your progress by checking your mind maps. Comments will be listed in your mind maps and you will have a consultation with your teacher to support your efforts.
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Essential Questions Podcast>
This task is outside the scope of this WebQuest. It is to check for your understanding of the Essential Questions. Your team is to create one mind map entitled “8hums-EQs-team name”. Share it with each other and your teacher. As you go through your research, you are to add your ideas and possible answers to the essential questions listed below.
Once you complete your research, the next step is to sit down together and discuss what you have on your mind map. Work together to fully answer each question. You are to then record a discussion where you talk with each other about your answers. Each team member’s ideas and voice should come through for each question.
You are to include the following in your podcast:
•Intro music
•Clear introduction of your team name and members
•Clear statement of each essential question before you start answering it
•Full discussion and answer for each question
•Each team member is to lead out on at least one question
•Closing music
Essential Questions:
•What is culture?
•How does geography affect culture?
•How are nations formed?
•Why organize?
Now go to Resources