Ancient History

Internet Resources

 

Links for Students and Parents

 

These student/parent resources provide enrichment for each unit and can help students with independent research.  Use these links to find out more about topics of interest.

 

 

Human Origins in Africa through the Neolithic age

 

Evolution Videos for Students: Evolving ideas

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/teachstuds/svideos.html

Would you like to learn more about evolution?  These short videos discuss how evolution works, the evidence for evolution and the controversy over evolution.

 

Becoming Human

http://www.becominghuman.org/

Learn more about fossil finds and human evolution by watching this interactive documentary (narrated by Don Johanson, famous for finding Lucy).

 

America’s Stone Age Explorers

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/toolkit.html

This web site shows the Stone Age tool kit.  Play an interactive game using these early artifacts.

 

Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

http://www.smm.org/catal/

This interactive website allows you to explore the archaeological dig of one of the first Neolithic farming towns.

 

 

 

 

Mesopotamia: Site of Several Ancient River Civilizations

 

 

Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/interactives/index.php

This site provides a look at Mesopotamian artifacts through interactive games.  Learn all about the Mesopotamians.

 

You be the judge on Hammurabi’s Code

http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/homepage.htm

This website allows you to see all of Hammurabi’s 282 laws! 

 

The Farming Year: An interactive game

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/geography/challenge/cha_set.html

Play this interactive game and learn about irrigation methods used in ancient Mesopotamia.  Follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about Mesopotamian geography.

 

The cities of the Gods: An interactive game

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/challenge/cha_set.html

Play this game to learn more about the polytheistic Mesopotamian religion.  Follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about Mesopotamian religion.

 

Time Challenge: An interactive game

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/time/challenge/cha_set.html

Play this game to learn about how Mesopotamian ruins were buried over time. Follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about Mesopotamia’s place in history.

 

The Never Ending Puzzle: An interactive game

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/challenge/cha_set.html

This game asks you to take on the role of an archaeologist and piece together pieces of cuneiform tablets. Follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about Mesopotamian writing.

 

 

 

Egypt: An Ancient River Civilization

 

 

Senet – A board game from ancient Egypt

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/main.html

Play this ancient Egyptian board game and follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about life in ancient Egypt.

 

The Jeweler of Memphis – interactive challenge

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/activity/main.html

The site asks you to practice your map reading skills to find items throughout Egypt.  Follow the links on the sidebar to learn more about Egyptian geography.

 

Lost and Found – An interactive game

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/activity/main.html

This game asks you to help the Egyptian gods and goddesses.  Learn more about them by using the links on the sidebar.

 

The Underworld – An interactive game

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/activity/main.html

Learn more about the Egyptian underworld by playing this game.  Information on mummification is available through the links on the sidebar.

 

Ask the Experts – An interactive game

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pharaoh/activity/main.html

Play this game to see examples of Egyptian artifacts.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about the pharaohs.

 

How big is the Great Pyramid?

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/activity/main.html

Figure out the height, weight and area of Khufu’s Great Pyramid.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about the pyramids.

 

Temple Tally

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/temples/activity/main.html

Learn how the priests kept records and use the ancient Egyptian symbols to calculate the amount of food that must be stored each year.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about Egyptian temples.

 

Shuffling Time

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/time/activity/main.html

The game requires you to put artifacts in the appropriate place on a timeline.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about Egypt’s place in history.

 

Tools of the Trade

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/activity/main.html

This game will teach you which tools various craftsmen in ancient Egypt used.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about jobs in ancient Egypt.

 

Making Sense

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/activity/main.html

Learn how to read Egyptian hieroglyphics.  Use the sidebar to read more about the evolution of ancient Egyptian writing.

 

Making Mummies

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/making.html

This site contains an audio slide show that describes the process of mummification.

 

Ancient History: Egyptians

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/

Explore this website to learn more about Egyptian pyramids, mummification, gods and beliefs, pharaohs and dynasties, daily life and hieroglyphics.  There is also a game that allows you to build a pharaohs tomb.

 

Egyptology Online

http://www.egyptologyonline.com/introduction.htm

Find out anything you would need to know about ancient Egypt on this site.

 

You Wouldn’t Want to be an Egyptian Mummy

http://www.salariya.com/web_books/mummy/index.html

Learn about mummies through this interactive web book.

 

 

 

The Roots of Western Civilization: Ancient Greece

 

 

Build a temple!

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/acropolis/challenge/cha_set.html
Play this interactive game and create a piece of Greek architecture.  Learn more about Greek architecture by clicking on the links on the sidebar.

 

The Red Rope

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/challenge/cha_set.html

Play this game to learn more about voting procedures in the city-state of Athens.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about Athens.

 

The Greek House

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/challenge/cha_set.html

This game allows you to investigate what the inside of a typical Greek home looked like.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about daily life in ancient Greece.

 

Gods and Festivals

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/festivals/challenge/cha_set.html

Learn more about the festivals for the Greek gods by playing this matching game.  Use the links on the sidebar to read more about festivals and games in ancient Greece.

 

A Greek Shipwreck

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/geography/challenge/cha_set.html

Become a marine archaeologist and examine the artifacts left behind from an ancient Greek shipwreck.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about how geography affected the ancient Greeks.

 

Pottery from Ancient Grrece

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/gods/challenge/cha_set.html

This site allows you to examine ancient Greek pottery and attempt to determine which god or goddess is depicted based on key symbols.  Use the links on the sidebar to learn more about ancient Greek religion.

 

The Plague

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/knowledge/challenge/cha_set.html

Learn more about the plague of Athens and the beliefs about what caused it.  Click on the links on the sidebar to read about famous Greek thinkers.

 

Spartan Soldiering

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/sparta/challenge/cha_set.html

See if you have what it takes to become a Spartan soldier by playing this game.  Learn more about life in Sparta by clicking on the links on the sidebar.

 

Greek Farming

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/time/challenge/cha_set.html

Take on the role of a Greek farmer in this interactive game.  Learn more about ancient Greek civilization’s role in history by clicking on the links on the sidebar.

 

Naval Warfare

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/war/challenge/cha_set.html

Learn about ancient Greek naval warfare by playing this game.  Read more about war in ancient Greece by clicking on the links in the sidebar.

 

Ancient Greece

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/

Links to everything you need to know about the Greeks.

 

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/

Click on “The Greeks-Interactive” for an interactive map and learn to speak like an ancient Greek.

 

The Ancient Greeks

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientgreece.htm

Find information on every aspect of Greek life.

 

Ancient Greece

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/index.shtml

Discover ancient Greece through cartoons and timelines.

 

 

 

The Roots of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome

 

Roman Recipes

http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/arl_roman_recipes_upper_classes.htm

Find out what the wealthy Romans ate.  You can even try to make them yourself.

 

Roman History Video Clips

http://www.history.com/media.do?mediaType=All&searchTerm=roman&action=search&x=0&y=0&showName=-1

Watch these videos on Julius Caesar, Roman weapons, Jesus and Hannibal.

 

The Romans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/

Find out all about life in ancient Rome.

 

Ancient History: Romans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/#life_in_ancient_rome

This site contains information on the Roman Empire, religion, daily life, gladiators and Pompeii.

 

Death in Rome

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml

Become a Roman sleuth and use your detective skills to uncover a mysterious death.

 

Roman clothing

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/clothing.html

Learn how the different social classes of Rome dressed.

 

Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/

See what the Roman bath looked like and try some Roman recipes.

 

Circus Maximus: Rome’s Astrodome

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/circus_maximus/

This site will teach you about the chariot races held at the Circus Maximus

 

Roman gladiators

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/games/circus.htm

Learn about Roman gladiators.

 

You wouldn’t want to be a Roman Gladiator

http://www.salariya.com/web_books/gladiator/

Learn about gladiators through this interactive web book.

 

Ancient Rome

http://www.mrdowling.com/702rome.html

This website provides a lot of information on ancient Rome.  Read through the text and then take the interactive quiz to see how much you learned.

 

 

OTHER USEFUL LINKS…

 

World Timelines

http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/

This website allows you to see what was happening around the world at any time in world history.

 

The British Museums

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights.aspx

This site allows you to view artifacts from ancient civilizations.

 

Kidipede

http://www.historyforkids.org/

This is a history search engine designed for middle school students.

 

CybersleuthKids

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Ancient_Civilizations/index.htm

This is a good place to start your research on any of our ancient civilizations.