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.