The Silk Road Ancient & Medieval China Map Activity & Fun Primary Source Diary

This Silk Road Map Activity can be used for both ancient and medieval Chinese Dynasties. It includes a fantastic primary source match activity and a diary. This student-centered clickable map activity is perfect for World History. With each click on the map, critical geographic features, continents, and routes appear, allowing students to color and label them.

Here’s what you get:

1. A Silk Road Click Map Slides with Historical Background– As students click on the map, different features and routes appear!
2. A blank Silk Road Map- With dashed-lined textured route lines included.
3. A Primary Source Match (digital and print)– Students match chunked primary source excerpts from travelers through the ages to pre-written summaries.
4. A Silk Road Merchant Diary (digital and print)– Students use what they learned from the primary sources to pose as merchants and complete a fill-in-the-blank diary.

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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History lessons and Medieval History lessons, are key-concept based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES.  By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers.

Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:

• G= Geography
• R= Religion
• A= Achievements
• P= Politics/Government/Leadership
• E= Economy
• S= Social Classes