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Make a Popsicle Stick Trojan Horse
My class recently began a unit of study on Ancient Greece, including the rise of the civilization and the Trojan War. This great Homer epic interests students easily and opens ...
Students Make Egyptian Obelisks and Peek-Inside Sanctuaries
You know me: I love a great project and Carmella Van Vleet's book, Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself, is full of them. Unfortunately, I don't always have ...
Stunning Egyptian Art Project Using Scratch Brite
If you've never used Scratch-Brite Paper, you will want to. This pre-inked gold color paper helps students create stunning pieces of artwork. I used some last week to help finish ...
Egyptian Chalk Portrait Art Lesson
My goal for last week's art lesson was to tie in our history unit on Ancient Egypt and introduce students to a new medium. The program Art Attacks that I ...
Making Egyptian Collars from Felt, Noodles and Beads
In her book, The Ancient Egyptians: Dress, Eat, Write and Play Just Like the Egyptians,Fiona MacDonald has a project for making an Egyptian collar that I just had to try. After ...
Making Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagi
It's official: we've kicked off our unit on ancient Egypt. After our first lesson covering its geography the students were very interested in making sarcophagi.
Unfortunately, the link to the pattern I ...
Making Maps to Review India’s Geography
On December 26, 2012, I am traveling to India with my teenage daughter and others from her high school on a mission trip to Falakata, India, located in West Bengal. ...
Music Videos that Teach History
SmartSongs is a great website for helping students learn about the presidents, Bill of Rights, branches of government and more.
After using several of their videos in class (when they fit ...
Teaching Videos: King Nebuchadnezzar and the Second Rise of Babylon
Last week in class we studied ancient civilizations. We had just finished a rather long section on King Hammurabi and his codes when we came to a new civilization: the ...
Make Your Own Cuneiform Writing Tablets
Kids love kinesthetic learning and so do I. What better way to teach about life in Mesopotamia than to practice cuneiform writing?
To begin this lesson I showed a five minute ...