Making a gold bowl – Ancient Greece project
Trojan gold bowl, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland About 1250 BC, the Greek army fought their neighbors the Trojans in the Trojan War. Troy was across the [...]
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Making a discus – Ancient Greece project
Ancient Greek discus, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland One of the sports in the Greek Olympic Games was to see who could throw a discus the farthest. [...]
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06, 2017
Making Greek coins – Ancient Greece project
Greek coins project: Athenian coins, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland How minters made Greek coins Each Greek city made its own silver coins. The cities they made [...]
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05, 2017
Pinhole camera science project – Biology and Evolution
Use a Pringles can for the cardboard tube Your eyes, and the eyes of many other animals and insects, work the same way as a pinhole camera. Building your own [...]
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05, 2017
What is a frieze? History of Art
Parthenon frieze (Athens, Greece, 440s BC): What is a frieze? Definition of a frieze A frieze (pronounced FREEZE) is a long narrow band of sculpture that runs along the architrave [...]
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05, 2017
Greek and Roman houses – History of Architecture
A peristyle of a Roman house at Ostia - 200s AD In classical Athens around 500 BC, and throughout the Greek world, people built courtyard houses, like earlier ones in Egypt [...]
