Teaching The Silk Road Pdf

Silk Road CurriculumMaterialsThe resources described here so far include the following. Clicking on an item will take youdown to its description in this list.A Sourcebook for TeachingWorld History. Ross Dunn and David Vigilante, eds.: People, Interaction, and Cultural Exchange: Asocial studies unitrecommended for grades 6-10 (SPICE).: A Curriculum Uniton Central and Inner Eurasia. By Vika Gardner and R. The Silk Road Project Inc.:The Bizarre Bazaar; Teacher and Student Resource Guide (The American Forum for GlobalEducation).: Student Activity Package and Answer Key (DATT NorthAmerica Multimedia Corporation). Web-based resources: (for 6th grade).

By Gail Desler.(secondary school). By Sheila Hanley. By David Weston. Prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Ross Dunn and David Vigilante, eds., Bring History Alive! A Sourcebookfor Teaching World History (National Center for History in the Schools,UCLA: n.d.; ISBN 0-9633218-6-2). Copy available for loan to Northwest educatorsfrom JSIS check.This is 'a resource manual created by teachers and for teachers.

It is not acurricular plan, not a textbook, and not a prescribed set of classroomexercises' (p. It is no accident that Prof. Ross Dunn, one of the keymovers of the project, has a particular interest in the famous Arab traveler,Ibn Batutta, who roamed the world from the Atlantic, across northern Africa,through Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Central Asia, India, andapparently China. The authors/editors make a conscious effort to transcend someof the conventional 'smaller' divisions of subject matter.

Each section of thebook contains an overview essay and then suggestions about specific assignmentsappropriate to various grade levels.

The Silk Road History

This lesson explores the Silk Road from Chang'an, China, to Rome, sometime during the second century C.E. Students learn to think as traders in six cities along the Silk Road, bartering with traders from neighboring cities. As the silk moves west toward Rome and gold moves east toward Chang'an, students will see changes in the values of the goods they trade.

The Silk Road Drugs

After an introductory reading about the Silk Road, the students will use economic reasoning to calculate the prices for goods along the Silk Road. They will then learn if a trade is a good deal or a bad deal. Finally, the students decide if it is beneficial to take other routes to China.