Come Prepared

Plan your visit. For information about reservations, parking, and lunchrooms, visit AMNH Education: Plan Your Visit.

Read the Essential Questions in this guide to see how themes in Traveling the Silk Road connect to your curriculum. Identify the key points that you'd like your students to learn from the exhibition.

Review the Teaching in the Exhibition section of this guide for an advance look at the artifacts, models, and interactives that you and your class will be encountering.

Review the activities and student worksheets in this guide. Designed for use before, during, and after your visit, these activities focus on themes that correlate to the NYS Social Studies Standards:
  • Fables (grades 3-5)
  • Geography & Trade (grades 6-8)
  • Technology (grades 9-12)
Decide how your students will explore Traveling the Silk Road.
  • You and your chaperones can facilitate the visit using the Teaching in the Exhibition section of this guide.
  • Your students can use the student worksheets to explore the exhibition on their own or in small groups.
  • Students, individually or in groups, can use copies of the map to choose their own paths.


Traveling the Silk Road Online Educator's Guide