SS+Arancibia

Plan Your Project How was China the center of trade? ||
 * **Summarize the goals and objective for this project:**
 * **Identify the content standard that students that drive this project:**


 * NYS Social Stdies Standards:**

World History 2

use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Geography 3 use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

Economics 5 use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms. || -Students will be able to create graphic organizer with information related to the Silk Road -Students will be able to work in groups -Students will be able to create a poster with information of the cities involved in the Silk Road -Students will be able to communicate information effectively || How was China the center of trade? || Understanding maps, geographic features, and art and culture || -The poster that will be created by groups of 4 -5 students. || [] ||
 * **Identify what key skills and content: What will students be able to do?**
 * **State the essential question:**
 * **List the topic and subtopics related to this project.**
 * **Define the final product(s): What will you assess?**
 * **List requires resources:**
 * **Predi****ct how you will differentiate to meet the needs of your learners:**

Content – students will use resources that match their level Product – students with limited writing will record their responses in graphic organizers ||

Essential Question: How was China the Center of Trade? Title: The Worm and the World

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