Each book provides activities to help students create "museums" full of specially crafted "artifacts" such as masks, jewelry, pottery, mosaics, weapons, and more that highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based. Includes reproducible pages for exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share information through oral presentations, guided tours, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. Activities are based on current academic content standards.
This series includes:
LW-441 Ancient Greece
LW-442 Ancient Egypt
LW-443 Ancient Mesopotamia
LW-444 Ancient China
LW-445 Ancient Rome
Museums are storehouses of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient Greece provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of Greece. These projects and activities highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based.
Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups:
- Relief sculptures and friezes
- Hoplite shields
- Greek columns
- Ancient Greek clothing and jewelry
- Greek mosaics
- Ancient Greek vases
- Inventions such as Archimedes' screw and the catapult
- Greek frescoes
- A Trojan horse
Also included are reproducible pages for making exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share their information through oral presentations, guided tours of their museum, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. The projects and activities are based on current academic content standards.
