Message from jshults

[Anonymous]

Silk Road is a big idea of 7th grade curriculum. We can sneak it in at many different times into the standards. Today I snuck Marco Polo and the Yuan Dynasty into a review on the Renaissance...old Marco really is mentioned in the Renaissance Standards.

Corel has a beautiful photo CD disk called the Silk Road. You can run the CD as a slide show, with titles so you look like you know what you are doing (of course, that is a picture of x located in y.....) I bought my copy (and many other such disks) on ebay, as Clay recommended during our classes. Copyright free photos, so we are free of that Western sense of guilt....

Any Silk Road stuff people have to share would be fabulous....a really nice geography lesson, complete with mapping activity, would be stupendous!