Old empires and the Silk Road: 6th to 8th people & places
Ancient empires and trade: the Nile, Rome's roads, China and the Silk Road. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: ancient empires and trade: the Nile, Rome's roads, China and the Silk Road.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How did silk get from China all the way to Rome?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: old empires and the Silk Road.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Print: The Nile, a River in the Desert (https://teach.peabody.kids/passages/6/the-nile-a-river-in-the-desert)
- Print: Roman Roads (https://teach.peabody.kids/passages/6/roman-roads)
- Print: The Silk Road (https://teach.peabody.kids/passages/7/the-silk-road)
- Read: Hua Mulan (https://peabody.kids/library/mulan)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about old empires and the Silk Road, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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