Before you undertake this mission, your team needs training
in the mechanics of simple machines. Visit these sites in preparation for a few drawing sessions with your teacher. Once you learn the basics of machines, you will quickly be able to spot what makes a machine or invention work. Print out and use the Simple Machines Worksheet to keep detailed notes on what you learn.

Now that you have had training in recognizing the components of simple and compound machines, you should read the accounts of Marco Polo. His writings will give you information about the mavelous and mysterious machines and inventions you might find in China.

It's time to search through Your Monarch's scholars' accounts of what wonderful and mysterious inventions and machines exist in the fabled land of China. Click on Mysterious Inventions and be prepared to be amazed