In class, we looked at making mosaic art using graph paper, but here is an online mosaic maker:
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/mosaic/mkmosaic.htm
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Romans loved to make mosaic art, and it was often found in their homes and public buildings.
In class, we looked at making mosaic art using graph paper, but here is an online mosaic maker: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/mosaic/mkmosaic.htm
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To learn more about daily life in Ancient Rome, and to build their critical thinking skills, students will play and write a refection about an online game called "Death in Ancient Rome" from the BBC. The following link will take you to the website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/death_rome/index_embed.shtml.
Reading page 89-91 in the text will give students a general overview of how Rome began and why the river and mountains played a large role in why and how Rome expanded the way it did. Food, farming and houses are also related to the limitations and advantages of the location of Rome. The following worksheet was completed in class, with questions from the text and blanks to fill in as notes.
To kick off our new unit on Ancient Rome, we watched the youtube video below. We then looked at the story of Romulus and Remus (handout) and origin of rome (handout) to get a better idea of how Rome came to be. As we are almost finished our exploration of Ancient Greece, students may want to begin studying for the test. The review that was handed out in class is below:
Historians learn much about the past in 3 main ways: through stories (written and oral), art / architechture, and through archaeology. Because these leave many gaps and are subject to many different interpretations, few things are 100% certain. Archealologists believe that the earliest people who lived in Ancient Greece were the Mycenaens. They were conquered by the Dorians, who came from the North. Many wars and fights between city-states of Ancient Greece and surrounding areas followed. Students completed a timeline worksheet (NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE) to gain some understanding of events in early Greece. They also read pages 68-71 in the text to fill in the blanks in the notes below.
http://cashmancuneo.net/1games/grekpot.swf - design a greek pot
https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/games/greece/greekhero.swf - play the greek hero game http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/welcome.html - enjoy a complete interactive overview of ancient greek life We have been reading a lot about ancient Greece and completing out fill in the balnk notes from the textbook. These notes cover dialy life in greexe, including information on foods, education, roles of men, women and children, different jobs, trading, and the role of the polis or city state. A copy of the handout is linked below:
Students should complete and hand in the textbook questions from p. 75 #1-4, and also the menu project from this booklet.
Since coming back from Spring Break, we have been gathering more information on Ancient Greece in a variety of ways:
- we have worked on mapping ancient Greece by labeling the seas, countries surrounding and the towns or city-states that made up ancient Greece (and Greece today) - see Mrs. Comte for a copy - NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE - we have looked into the Olympic Games by completing a booklet that gave more information on where, when, why and how the ancient games were organized and compared them with the games today - NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE. Both of these should be competed and handed in to be marked. Mr. Lambourne is going to be our guest teacher for a few lessons on Ancient Greece. The following websites and files will be used for your information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOtrue5nEd8 - test, which god are you? `
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