Beijing Field Guides for Students

Every station follows the same five steps, so students know what to do without being told:

1. Look for one thing on site.
2. Know a few facts, each checked against a source listed in the guide.
3. Think about how it connects to what they learned at school.
4. Do a task at one of three levels: Explore (everyone), Extend (if there is time), Challenge (for the curious).
5. Then & Now: where the same idea shows up today, often in Perth or Canberra.

Each guide also has a Big Talk comparison with places students know from Australia and Europe, a glossary of the Chinese names on the signs, and teacher pages with answers and curriculum links. The guides are written against the Western Australian Curriculum (SCSA) for Years 6 to 8; teachers using another curriculum can map the same stations to their own courses.

The Forbidden City and the Great Wall each take most of a day, and the Temple of Heaven pairs with the Wall when a group starts early. See School Trip to Beijing for how a Beijing leg is put together, and the seven day sample itinerary for a full week.