The Story of China - Episode 3: Golden Age

This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series “The Story of China - Episode 3: Golden Age.”

You will receive a Video Response Worksheet and Key in PDF format.

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 55 minutes long.

From the producer:

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Traveling from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea, Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Michael Wood tells the tale of China’s Renaissance, which happened long before the one in Europe. In the alleys of Kaifeng, the world’s greatest city before the 19th century, he hears legends, samples the cuisine and explores printing. We see a huge working replica of an astronomical clock made by ‘China’s Leonardo da Vinci’, one of the inventions that made the Song a great era of science. And at a crunch Chinese Premier League match, we learn that the Chinese even invented soccer!