Travel Along the Silk Road

Students will:

• Learn about travel along the Silk Road, considering the different kinds of people who traveled and their reasons for making the journey

• Discuss the ways that travelers from different cultures can share ideas with one another, leading to cultural diffusion, or the spread of different cultural ideas

• Design and construct an object for travel that communicates ideas about the culture of the maker and the owner

• Cardboard, oaktag paper, or construction paper

• Tape

• Glue

• Drawing implements (markers, colored pencils, crayons)

• Scissor

• Index cards

• Silk Road Map

• Image of Loom Width of Silk Fragment

• The Story of Princess Taihe