Great Wall of China
Name ONE reason people died while building the Great Wall of China.
What are ACCIDENTS, HUNGER or EXHAUSTION?
TRUE or FALSE:
Origami is the Chinese word for paper folding.
FALSE.
Origami is the JAPANESE word for paper folding.
Name the natural resource that is used to produce paper, which is a Chinese invention.
What is WOOD or WOOD PULP?
Name the CONTINENT that China belongs to.
Bonus: Name ANOTHER country also located on the same continent.
What is ASIA?
(Other countries in ASIA include Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea, India and others)
This fictional character (from a movie you may have seen) is about a teenage girl who pretends to be a boy in order to defend her village from invaders.
Who is MULAN?
The Great Wall of China was built to defend China from which of the following groups:
The Japanese, the Mongols or the English.
Who are the MONGOLS?
Name ONE of the pieces of Chinese art that we saw when we visited the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
What is SOMETHING WE SAW AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM?
SILK is a fabric that is a produced from material created by this animal.
What is a SILK MOTH or SILKWORM?
This city is the CAPITAL CITY of China.
DOUBLE BONUS POINTS if you can spell it.
What is BEIJING?
It is spelled B-E-I-J-I-N-G.
This is the main item that PANDAS eat.
What is BAMBOO?
The length of the Great Wall of China is closest to:
5 miles long, 50 miles long, 500 miles long or 5,000 miles long
What is 5,000 MILES LONG.
(The Great Wall of China is 5,500 miles long)
Name one of the art projects that we did with our visiting artist from the Brooklyn Museum.
Bonus points if you can remember the name of that teacher.
What is SOMETHING WE DID IN CLASS?
Who is _____?
Name the Chinese invention that helps us find the direction when hiking or travelling.
What is a COMPASS?
Name the ocean that China is located closest to.
BONUS POINTS if you can name TWO additional oceans.
What is the PACIFIC OCEAN?
Other oceans are: Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean or Southern Ocean
This is the name of the CURRENCY, or MONEY they use in China. (For example, in the United States we use the DOLLAR)
Is it the PESO, the POUND or the YUAN?
What is the YUAN?
This is the MAIN PURPOSE of the Great Wall of China today.
What is ATTRACTING TOURISTS to visit China?
Name the item that was NOT included on Google Classroom as examples of Chinese paper folding:
A heart, a fish, a dragon, a fortune teller or a boat.
What is a DRAGON?
This Chinese invention is a material used to create DYNAMITE - a common explosive.
What is GUN POWDER?
Name the river listed that IS NOT located in China?
Yellow River, Nile River or Yangtze River.
BONUS POINTS if you know where it is located.
What is NILE RIVER?
(Located in EGYPT)
This word from the video you watched means "winding and twisting like a dragon or a snake".
What is SERPENTINE?
This number is CLOSEST to the ACTUAL HEIGHT of the Great Wall of China?
10 feet tall, 20 feet tall or 50 feet tall.
What is 20 feet tall.
(The Great Wall of China is about 23 feet tall)
This is the Chinese word for PAPER FOLDING.
What is ZHENZI?
This word is another name for an UMBRELLA, which is also a Chinese invention.
What is a PARASOL?
This mountain - the TALLEST in the world - is located on the border of China and Nepal.
What is MOUNT EVEREST?
Name the country that has the largest POPULATION (the most people living there):
Is it the United States, China or India?
Bonus points if you can order them in the right order from #1 to #3
What is CHINA?
#1: China has 1.4 BILLION people
#2: India has 1.3 BILLION people
#3: United States has 330 MILLION people