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- 6th - 12th
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Students consider how archaeologists discovered and pieced together artifacts that indicate a Celtic presence in ancient Turkey. They research ancient civilizations and create archaeological digs containing items representative of these cultures. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine ancient world civilizations and the mythologies they created to explain natural phenomena, as well as the writers and poets who wrote about the mythologies. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students examine the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. They define civilization, simulate a chaos and civilization demonstration, identify the needs for civilization, construct a map, and research the contributions of Mesopotamia to the world. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students, in groups, research the culture of an ancient civilization. They use the Internet to locate artifacts that illustrate different elements of culture, write a description and analysis of each piece and present their work to the class. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students complete a long-term unit on ancient and early civilizations. They conduct Internet research, define key vocabulary terms, analyze maps, and create a PowerPoint presentation about a selected early civilization. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students begin a study to introduce several ancient civilizations to be covered in sixth grade social studies. They show the relationship between their location and key geographical features. Students locate these civilizations on a GPS unit using a world view, and mark way points. Full Review »
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- 8th - 9th
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Students work together to complete a Pi webquest with a partner. Using the internet, they examine the ways people in the Ancient Civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia and Greece used pi. To end the lesson, they review the concepts of radius, diameter and circumference. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are shown photograhs of wall paintings from ancient civilizations that illustrate aspects of life as it was lived in ancient times. They are asked to tell what these illustrations can tell us about life in ancient tiems. Students are explained that they now have the opportunity to create a wall mural that illustrates a day in their lives. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study the geographical features of the Indus Valley to determine how the location of this valley contributed to the growth of an ancient civilization. They work in groups to research the area before completing map work that shows the major geographic features and cities for a presentation on the Indus Valley. Full Review »
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- 5th - 10th
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Students participate in jigsaw learning activity in order to cover a large amount of information about the technological advances and writing systems of ancient civilizations. Working in small groups, they research an assigned topic to become experts and they share they information with their classmates. Full Review »
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