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A China student group tour supports a course when each stop gives students something to do and something to bring home. The table sets out eight learning units and the courses they connect to. The school's coordinator confirms each fit against the current syllabus, because course documents change.
Eight Units
Each unit is a module that can be placed in a longer route. The tasks are ones that work at any site: observe, record, calculate, map, log, draw, choose, create.
| Unit | Where | Courses it connects to | What students do |
|---|---|---|---|
| U1 Building without nails | Fogong Temple pagoda (Yingxian), the Forbidden City roofs | IB MYP design and technology; AP Physics (statics); A-Level design and technology | Build and load-test a joint model; sketch the forces on a bracket set. |
| U2 Water management without a dam | Dujiangyan, Sichuan | IB DP Environmental Systems and Societies (water); DP Geography; AP Environmental Science | Measure how the flow divides; draw the water path; argue it against a modern dam. |
| U3 One art style across three thousand kilometres | Yungang, Longmen, Maijishan, Dunhuang | AP Art History (cross-cultural transmission); IB DP Visual Arts (comparative study) | Date caves by style; annotate iconography; copy a detail. |
| U4 Cobalt, kilns and six hundred years of trial and error | Jingdezhen | IB MYP materials and change; IB CAS (Creativity) | Throw, glaze, paint under glaze, load and open a kiln; keep a log. |
| U5 A long-running examination system | Jiangnan Examination Hall, Nanjing | AP World History (bureaucracy); IB DP History | Reconstruct a cell; compare the system with the home country's school exams in a short report. |
| U6 Landscape shaped by water | Guilin and Yangshuo | IB DP Geography (landforms); AP Environmental Science; A-Level Geography | Run a dissolution experiment; tell peaks from peak clusters; read a cave profile. |
| U7 An assembly line two thousand years old | Terracotta Army, Xi'an | AP World History (empires); IB MYP technology | Identify moulded parts; trace marks of work to makers; watch a restoration step. |
| U8 Ancient Egypt seen from China | Shanghai Museum, Egyptian gallery | IB TOK (knowledge and perspective); AP Art History | Analyse how the gallery tells its story; compare it with a museum at home. |
IB
An IB CAS trip China programme gives students reflection material in three ways. The daily log (date, place, weather, what was done, what was learned) can be used as a CAS reflection record. Hands-on units such as the pottery and craft sessions fit the Creativity strand. A group that cleans, plants or teaches during the week can add a service element if the school asks for one.
The same trip can serve IB DP Environmental Systems and Societies (water management), IB DP Geography (landforms), IB TOK (how a museum frames a story) and IB MYP design and technology (joinery and load).
AP
An AP Chinese trip to China puts the language to work in real settings: a market, a tea masterclass, a campus session, a restaurant order. Students set tasks such as asking the price of an item in Chinese, reading signs, and recording a short conversation with a local speaker.
The same week can feed AP Art History (cross-cultural transmission along the cave temples), AP World History (state capacity in the examination hall and the terracotta workshops) and AP Environmental Science (water and karst).
A-Level and GCSE
A-Level and GCSE groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland often organise an educational visit with a risk assessment and a named educational visits coordinator. PreeChina supplies the route, the venue confirmations and the transport detail that coordinator needs. The safety page lists what is confirmed in writing before a group travels.
A-Level Geography fits the karst and water units, A-Level design and technology fits the joinery unit, and a Chinese language group fits the market and campus tasks.
In Practice
The units above work when the evidence is real. On a 2026 trip the students presented to a university class and received certificates, made a craft in a heritage workshop, watched giant pandas at a zoo in Beijing and walked through a gate passage of the Forbidden City. These photographs were taken by PreeChina.
Using This Page
The table is built to be forwarded to the person who signs off a trip. It names the course and the topic, not a general claim of fit. A school that wants a different course covered names it in the proposal request, and a unit is added or reshaped for it.
Units are described here at the level of what students do. The detailed task cards and teacher notes are shared with a group once a programme is agreed.
Send the group size, ages, dates and the curriculum or interests, and PreeChina replies with a draft route. Nothing is booked until a priced itinerary is agreed.
Request a ProposalReviewed October 2026. Programme details are confirmed in writing for each group.
