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The Silk Road Trade Routes 5-E Lesson and Game | Cultural Diffusion | Google

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This really brought the trade route to life for my students! I loved their level of engagement! Great for my visual and tactile learners!
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This fun lesson introduces the Silk Road trade routes and explores how cultural diffusion shaped the world. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! First, examine the “Secret of Silk”, then discuss vocabulary and big ideas. Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Next, challenge your class to investigate geographical barriers along the Silk Road & plot the best route to avoid potential hazards. Play a FUN “Travels on the Silk Road” game that students LOVE! They must identify goods & ideas spread on the trade routes while competing to amass the greatest fortune along the way! Finally, assess learning with an Exit Ticket quiz. Print & interactive, digital versions of the materials are included. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 classrooms. Everything you need is included!

Includes Google Resources: Digital & Print

  • Guided 5-E Slides Lesson
  • Fill-in Notes
  • Silk Road Game Activity
  • Exit Ticket Quiz
  • Answer Key
  • Teacher Reference Guide

5-E Guided Lesson:

  1. Engage: “What is Silk?” Warm-up Activity
  2. Explore: “Investigate” Map Challenge Activity
  3. Explain: Vocabulary & Fill-in Notes
  4. Elaborate: “Travel the Silk Road” Board Game
  5. Evaluate: Exit Ticket Quiz

Vocabulary:

  • Silk Road, Trade Routes, Merchants, Globalization, Cultural Diffusion, Barter System, Empires, Mongols, Romans, Geographic Barriers, Caravans, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Age of Exploration

Aligned with Social Studies Standards: CCSS, TEKS, ELPS, and NCSS

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Total Pages
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Teaching Duration
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Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

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