Learning Objective

At the end of Lesson One, Mapping the Silk Road students will:

  • Students will locate and map key topographic features along the Silk Roads.
  • Students will identify and map the Silk Roads, key cities, and trade products.
  • Students will generate and use a map key.
  • Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of the terrain along the Silk Roads.

At the end of the program students will:

  • Understand how humans have always been interdependent due to exchange of ideas, culture, trade, food, music, and so on.
  • Recognize how trade has influenced culture and culture has influenced trade throughout history.
  • Recognize the diversity of the world and appreciate the interdependence of cultures and the benefits of exchange.
  • Place the cultural and economic exchange that occurred on the Silk Road into historical context.

Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) and the Silk Road Project http://www.silkroadproject.org/teachers/index.html