Ancient Silk Roads- Full Scheme

This is a 5 lesson scheme of work I have created based upon Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ aimed at UKS2.

This unit focuses on the ancient period of the Silk Roads, ranging from the origin through to the founding of Baghdad. I have included instructions for the scheme with lesson orders, resources required and what to do during each lesson.

The sequence of lessons is:

Silk Roads Beginnning
Greece vs Persia
The Battle of Thermopylae
Alexander the Great
What traveled the Silk Roads?

The final lesson is an assessment wherein pupils answer the enquiry set. There is success criteria attached for assessment of this.

Each lesson is complete with full resources and links to educational videos I created to run alongside them. Feel free to adapt to suit your needs as this can quite easily be altered to suit KS3.

If you download, please spare some time to review this resource.