Project Marco Polo
Like Marco
Polo, the
famous Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who traveled to China and
described to Europeans in a detailed chronicle the wealth and great
size of
China, and his experience of the epic journey in the thirteenth century,
you can
now play his role by doing Project Marco Polo, only this time you get
to travel
and document the journey not just to China but many other parts of the
world.
This group project
typically consists of 16 people divided into four different subject
groups.
Before embarking on the exciting journey, participants of each group
need to
know the subject matter of their home country well, and be prepared to
tell and
show all that information to the people of the country they are
visiting, in
exchange for the locals' hospitality and assistance to get anything
that the
Project Marco Polo team would like to know, see, and bring home.
Project Marco Polo
(PMP) for a particular nation usually takes 2-4 weeks to complete. (Not
bad
compared to the 24 years Marco Polo and his father and uncle took
before returning
to Venice.) It
will be a big achievement for the project participants, and they will
also have
a documentary to show and tell everyone about it.
