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***WORLD HISTORY***
GRADE LEVEL: All ages; Secular
COMMENTS: (CAUTION: View of EARLY MAN at this site is evolutionary. Other subjects at this site may need to be screened.)
This site is an Urbana Middle School Project that has not only TONS of links to WWW Resources on Ancient Civilizations but shows classroom projects that children have done as they studied these civilizations! (i.e. making a mummy, how-to-draw Egyptian style, etc.) Lots of ideas here for making your unit study more interesting and effective. The Ancient Civilizations covered are: Early Man (evolutionary), Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Maya, Inca and Middle Ages.
Also follow the links and see the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
GRADE LEVEL: Grade 4-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Get interesting trivia about Daily Life in Egypt and see stories kids wrote about life in Egypt. (WARNING: If you don't particularly want your kids learning about the ancient gods, you may want to screen this site. It is secular in its presentation.)
There are also links to Daily Life in Greece, Rome, India and China.
More of Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page (related to above link)
GRADE LEVEL: Grade 4-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Covers Ancient India, Rome, China, Africa, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia. (CAUTION: View of EARLY MAN at this site is evolutionary. You may feel that other areas at this site may need to be screened too.)
Mr. Donn has provided worksheets, lessons plans, step-by-step procedures for making a recall game, research projects lists complete with questions to be answered, maps of ancient regions, timelines, etc. A great site!
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary-Middle School; Secular
COMMENTS: Produced by Sea World, this is a fun site about Egypt. Contains a great map of the Nile River, Vocabulary Words defined, fun puzzles to do, information about hieroglyphics and how to make a cartouche.
The Ancient World Web: Main Index
GRADE LEVEL: All Ages; Secular
COMMENTS: Do you want information about ANYTHING in the Ancient World like Greek Mythology, Vikings, Easter Island, the Mayas, Native Americans, etc? You can look through this index alphabetically, by Subject or by Geographical Area. Extremely helpful.
GRADE LEVEL: Grades 4-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Learn about hieroglyphics--he has an easy-to-understand chart and you can download the GIFs, the Pyramids and Temples, the Kings and Queens of Egypt, and Egyptian mathematics to name a few things at this site. He also has some interesting information about the Scarab beetle you see on everything! Click here to find out what they are all about. Ages 12-16 can do some real problems using their Egyptian mathematics at this site too! He even has some Egyptian screensavers for you.
NOVA Online/Pyramids--The Inside Story
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Read their description of this PBS site: "Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? If so, penter here, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders." They have many quicktime movies at this site as well as still pictures to give you a feeling of what it would be like to go inside the pyramids.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary-Middle School; Secular
COMMENTS: A very brief history lesson including pictures for younger children. If you click on the link "COLOR ME EGYPT" at the bottom of the page, you can obtain neat Egyptian pictures you can print out for children to color...Read the instructions at the bottom of that page for how to get these blank, uncolored pictures.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Instructions on how to make a mini-mummy out of plasticene and plaster of paris. Has step-by-step instructions.
Learn About Egypt With Neferkiki: The Fruity Pharoahs
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Instructions on how to make a mummy out of some fruit, I kid you not! A little more detailed than I would do, but some children might be fascinated by the mummification process including some ceremonies they did. (I draw a line at the throwing of stones on the chief embalmer!) Keep in mind the instructions are for a class size of 25, so it will not require as much supplies (or money)! This is an "internal link" to a specific project, SOOOOOO...click on the side links (start at HOME) and find all kinds of other lesson plans to teach Egypt to your child. It was strange for me looking at all the "Chihuahua Pharoahs", but it was their theme. You can also get graphics for hieroglyphs, and Egyptian clip art to decorate a writing assignment. Lots here.
The Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: Go to this site and on the right-hand side select MIDDLE AGES. You will get a tour of what it was like to live in the Middle Ages. Homes, clothing, religion, feudal life, arts and entertainment, and medicine are just a few of the topics you can explore. Within some of the topics are small activities you can try like identifying an instrument of the Middle Ages or diagnosing a patient using the methods common in the Middle Ages. There is a page of RELATED LINKS you can follow too.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-High School; Secular
COMMENTS: You hear alot about the Seven Wonders of the World. But, few can agree on what these seven are. Why? Learn at this site how this list has changed over time. At this particular page, you will be able to visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and learn more about them. Younger children will just enjoy the pictures. If you click here you will see lists of other wonders of the world...modern wonders, forgotten wonders and natural wonders. Some of the pictures you can click on and get a nice HUGE JPEG...right click it and "Set it as wallpaper" for a fun desktop!
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School-Adult; Secular
COMMENTS: This is the entrance page to MythNET. Click on its link on this page. Greek mythology is everywhere in our culture. Take the FTD florist symbol...the winged deliverer...what about the APOLLO Space Mission? Teach your child some of the Greek gods and goddesses while you are studying Ancient Greece. A CAUTION: Be aware that too many times the stories surrounding the Greek gods and goddesses are sexual in nature. Not for young children. At this site your child will learn about some of the mythological creatures of Greek mythology (under Notable Characters), and the Great Heroes (Jason, Hercules, etc.--also listed under Notable Characters / Heroes). From this page you can also go to LATIN WORDSTOCK and study how Latin has affected our language.
Aesop's Fables: Online Collection--655+ Fables
GRADE LEVEL: All Ages; Secular
COMMENTS: Read the biography of Aesop, one of the famous Greek poets--click on Section 1 on the chart and choose Life of Aesop--there are two versions there. Read 655 of his fables complete with morals! Some of the fables have pictures and some have a REAL AUDIO segment attached. One caution: Many of the stories refer to "ass" for a donkey. You will have to deal with that.
About.com's Ancient/Classical History
GRADE LEVEL: All Ages; Secular
COMMENTS: This is Mining Company's page of Ancient and Classical History Links (Egypt, Greece and Rome) that they have found throughout the web. I visited many of the links and recommend that you follow these particular links on that page:
(1) Newton's Apple: Mummies--here you will find out how to mummify an apple; (2) Empires Past: Reference Library--read about these ancient empires and at the same time, let your child take notes on an on-line "note-taking" tool they provide. If they don't know the meaning of a word, they can click on it and look it up immediately. (3) Ancient Egypt for Kids: Pyramid Crossword Puzzle--read a selection and then follow the clues to fill in the puzzle; (4) Rosetta Stone: Lots of nice activities here. One in particular is an activity where your child can follow cut and paste instructions to "Build-A-Pharoah". (5) Rosetta Stone Coloring Book--a downloadable Acrobat Reader file.
GRADE LEVEL: All Ages; Secular
COMMENTS: Scroll down to find the greatest section here for homeschoolers! The link is entitled, "CASTLES FOR KIDS" and it contains links for the following: (1) free software to build your own castle so you can better understand it's parts and workings, (2) Castle Builder: find out how "the Medieval castle played an integral part in the daily lives of the various classes of Medieval people. It will also help the students gain a superficial understanding of Monarchy, Feudalism, and serfdom." (3) Ian's Land of Castles: a 10 year old answers some questions about castles for kids, (4) Journey Through the Middle Ages: developed by an elementary school, this is "an excellent learning tour all about castles and Medieval Times. (5) Life in the Middle Ages: learn about nobles and knights, (6) Gothics Window Puzzle: "made of colorful triangular panes in a symmetrical arrangement. Each time you click the 'New Puzzle' button a unique puzzle window is created. When you click on ''Start', some of the panes are dimmed to dark gray. Your challenge is to re-light all the panes in the window."
Also at this section: (1) Tours: "tour individual castles from around the world"; (2) Castle Collections: "tour castle sites that contain multiple castle listings"; (3) Palaces and Great Homes; (4) Abbeys and Churches; (5) Castle Photo Archive; (6) Glossary of castle terms; (7) Myths and Legends: from King Arthur and Robin Hood to magical creatures; (8) Medieval Studies: more links for serious students of castle studies; (9) Castle Books; (10) Heraldry
Introduction to Virtual Renaissance
GRADE LEVEL: Middle school-high school; Secular
COMMENTS: What was it like to live during the Renaissance period of history? Take a virtual tour of the stores, schools, the Tower of London, the Sistine chapel, the Globe theater, the Cathedral of Santa Maria or "look" around town. Learn some of the vocabulary of the time as you go! At each stop on the Renaissance map you will learn from "characters" as they "tell" you all about wherever it is you stopped. This is VERY informative! I highly recommend that you spend some time at this site if you are studying this time in world history--this site also contains links to other places on the web that delve deeper into any subject of the Renaissance period.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle school-high school; Secular
COMMENTS: What is included in the Code of Chivalry subscribed to by many knights during the Middle Ages? This is only a one-pager but it has plenty of information about Chivalry's code. It is the modern version of the "Old Code".
GRADE LEVEL: Middle school-high school; Secular
COMMENTS: Each topic at this site has a one page explanation so it is a good site to use with younger children or for a quick overview of castle-related information. Here are the topics covered at this site: About Castles, Birds Eye Views, Building a Castle, Decline of the Castle, Drawings, Dungeons, Fireplaces, Gatehouses, Glossary, Ground Plans, Images, Keeps,
King Edward I, Kitchens, Knights, Castle License, Life in a castle, Medieval Jobs, Map Room, Motte Castles, Parts of a Castle, Pele Towers, Privy, Roofs, Symbols of Britain, Undermining, Weapons, and Wells.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary -Middle school; Secular
COMMENTS: From Owl and Mouse Educational
Software. "Build your own medieval castle, complete with towers, gatehouse and keep.
To understand how an army lay siege to a castle, how a castle was defended, or what it
might be like to live in a castle (though this varied by who you were) -- build a model
castle." This is a FREE download of a model castle--print out the castle parts and follow
instructions given to build it! Great fun!
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