Field Guides for School Trips to China

Field guides students carry on a school trip to China. Each guide covers one place, station by station, so students can learn on site without a tour guide, and links what they see to what they study at school. Previews are online; teachers and trip leaders can request the full printable guides.

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The roofs of the Forbidden City seen from Jingshan

2 previews online, 2 in preparation

Beijing 北京

The Forbidden City and the Great Wall at Mutianyu and Badaling, with the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace to follow.

What a Guide Is

What is in a field guide

A big question students answer by the end of the visit, using things they saw themselves.
Stations in walking order, each with Look, Know, Think, Do and Then & Now, and tasks at three levels.
Diagrams and photos that show students what to look for, and Chinese names to match on the signs.
A Big Talk comparison that links the place to Australia, Europe and the world today.
Teacher pages: curriculum links, answers, notes for the day, and the points still being checked.

Every fact in a guide is checked against a source listed at the back. Where official sources disagree, the guide gives both figures; anything not yet confirmed stays in the teacher pages as an open question, not in the student text.

Full Guides

For teachers and trip leaders

Get the full field guides

Teachers, school trip leaders and travel companies can ask for any guide through the request form. Say which guides you need and who they are for, and PreeChina emails the printable PDFs.

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Reviewed November 2026. Facts on this page were checked against the sources listed.