DIRECTIONS: Choose a Chinese invention to research: http://sqworl.com/71o04v and a team, unless working alone.

Research and take notes on your Chinese invention in the chart below using the specific categories. This information
will be presented (choose format) to the class at a “Show & Tell” Day, as well as be explained in an informative essay.
Student Name: Team Members Name(s) “Show & Tell” Project Presentation Choice:
or write “working alone”: (tech presentation, commercial, movie, stop motion film, puppet show, skit, 3-D
model, diorama, comic, scrapbook, photo diary, board game, piece of art, song, etc.)

Caroline Jillian and Danielle Tech Presentation- Google Slides

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Inventions- Ancient China, History of Ice cream

Copy & Paste three
website links you used Google Images
for research / images:
Ice cream-Wikipedia

More Links! Ice Cream Impact On The Environment

INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH:

Chinese Invention: Ice cream

Year or Dynasty Tang Dynasty

invented:

Interesting Fact: It was first made with rice and snow.

BODY PARAGRAPH #1: Past

DESCRIPTION: ● It was also made with syruping mixture, salt, and snow
How would you ● It was tasty treat
describe this “ancient” ● It was later expanded by the Europeans
item? How and why
was it used back in
ancient times? What
was its purpose?

ORIGINS: ● Ice cream was invented in 2000 BC in China.

How did it come about ● It was invented when the Chinese packed a soft milk and rice mixture in the
or how was it snow.
invented? Who ● No one knows exactly who invented ice cream.
invented it and when? ● It was invented in Tang Dynasty

CITATION: “quoted” “Ice cream was invented in China around 2000 BC when the Chinese packed a soft
evidence to support milk and rice mixture in the snow”(Fun Facts about China).
information above: “They had pots they filled with a syrupy mixture, which they then packed into a
mixture of snow and salt”(The History of Ice cream).

BODY PARAGRAPH #2: Past heading to modern

SPREAD OF ● Ice cream started in China and spread along the silk road to parts of Europe.
INVENTION & ● It spread to parts of Europe such greece, italy, and persia. These are just
INFLUENCE: some of the many places that ice cream from China spread
How and where did ● Along the way, places changed the ingredients that they used for ice cream.
this idea or invention They did this because they may have not had the ingredients that China
spread (along trade used for their ice cream.
routes)? What ● People from other countries loved it so much they made their own delicious
influence did it have versions of it
on other civilizations? ● For example, Ancient Greece made their own version of ice cream. They
used snow mixed with honey and fruit. They used these ingredients because
that is what they had access to.
● Spread over silk road

CITATION: “quoted” “. . . ancient Greeks ate snow mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of Athens”
evidence to support (Ice cream-Wikipedia).
information above:

BODY PARAGRAPH #3: Modern Times

IMPACT: ● We see ice cream all over the world

What impact or effect ● People could be selling ice cream in a ice cream truck or just in a regular
did it have on the store.
world? How is it used ● Ice cream has impacted our usage of plants, and usage of dairy from cows.
today? Where do we ● It is now a super popular treat
see its influence or ● There are worldwide flavors
“footprint”? ● The average human eats 22 pints of ice cream every year.
● There are different ways ice cream is used today. Sundaes, malts,
milkshakes, etc.

CITATION: “quoted” “Of course, this tasty treat starts with milk from domesticated cows, but sugar,
evidence to support vanilla, chocolate, and other ingredients come from places that are home to
information above: thousands of wild and endangered species.” (Ice Cream Impact On The
Environment).

CONCLUSION PARAGRAPH:

SUMMARY: ● It allowed the people a tasty treat

What impact or effect ● It affected China because ice cream an idea that was traded along the silk
did this invention have road
on China? ● It allowed people to cool off on hot summer days

THEME or SYMBOL: ● We can learn that there may be millions even billions of flavors, but they are
What is a lesson we all special and different in their own way
can learn or how ● A little ice cream can turn a frown upside-down
might this object have ● We can learn from ice cream that from a hard day's work there is always
a deeper meaning? time to cool off.
PICTURES:
Copy & paste three
pictures of your
invention and any other
important features of
your research: