Anyone else doing Ancient History this school year? - Page 3

[Mary-Beth]

WOW! Thanks for all these resources!!:

[phathui5]

We'll be getting back into Ancient History in August 2010. This year we're in Year 4 or Modern History.

We do use Story of the World. Ds and dh both like it and they do it together. I love Story of the World for the reading lists in the activity guide.

[MissRubyandKen]

I found two more activity guide series at my library while searching Ancient Egypt.

Make it Work! Ancient Egypt by Andrew Haslam and Alexandra Parsons

Step into Ancient Egypt by Philip Steele

[MissRubyandKen]

The description of this book sounds delicious. I reserved it today and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Hands-on ancient people Vol. I; Art activities about Mesopotamia, Egypt and Islam by Yvonne Young Merrill
description:
This beautifully illustrated book features art activities based on museum collections of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Islamic culture, with early architectural and design styles adapted to paper, commercial tiles, and other materials. Good-luck charms, calligraphy, and traditional containers augment the simplified but authentic motifs found throughout the Moslem world. Children use paper, markers, and glue to reproduce the brilliant mosaic work of the Babylonians. They learn to create a wheel, board games, the ziggurat, and other objects pioneered in the ancient world. Full page color photographs, inviting illustrations, a history of each artifact, and stories, bring long vanished cultures to life.

[MissRubyandKen]

I had an idea for an Ancient Egypt art project today while looking at a pdf file from Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. The file titled Egyptian Everyday Life Artefacts toward the bottom of the page under heading School Loans Service. On page 7 of that file is a picture of an Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace. While looking at it I thought it would be neat to replicate using paper beads. I've never made paper beads, but knew it could be done, and the look of this necklace I think would be perfect to replicate with paper. So I searched for a good site with information on making paper beads and this one looks good. Time intensive possibly, I'm not sure, but I think dd will enjoy doing this. I just happen to have plenty of paper and mod podge already. These should turn out quite sturdy. We once did a craft making a rolled up piece of cardstock into a wand using mod podge and they've been played with tons. Ds turned his into a little sword instead of a wand, lol, and it's been banged around by himself and my nephew quite a bit.

[cloudswinger]

I'm going to start with this curriculum, using the STOW branch, and the prehistory option.

http://bringinguplearners.com/mosaic/

We're going to DC and the Smithsonian in a couple of weeks, so we're starting with a field trip!

[kittie313]

OK I'm loving some of the ideas I'm getting here! I was going to go chronological in ancients and then add a bit of geography based on what we are studying in history at that time period, but now I'm thinking I may go based on geography to study ancients instead. I know my oldest dd wants to study ancient egypt, so we may start with that (after we talk about the 7 continents and learn their names and where they are that is) and then move to a different region after we've learned all they want to about egypt. That's a really cool idea! I still have 2 months or so until we start history anyway, so I may be reworking my entire plan.