Paint a Greek vase – Ancient Greece project
A red-figure vase painted by the Berlin Painter (Athens, about 480 BC) If you need an art project, or something you can do sitting down, here's a suggestion for a [...]
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Reading a Greek play – Ancient Greece project
Greek theater at Epidauros - Reading a Greek play How did Greek plays get started? One great activity to understand ancient Greece better is to stage a scene from a [...]
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Greek Olympic games project
A foot race in ancient Greece Would a day of "Greek Olympics" work for you? Here are some suggestions for that. Maybe the most important difference between our own Olympics [...]
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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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A day in ancient Egypt – Food, Costumes, Activities
Egypt activities: Akhenaten and Nefertiti If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient Egypt activities, here's some ideas other people have [...]
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How to build a shaduf – Ancient Egypt projects
Egyptian shaduf project This is a project you should do outside on a nice warm day, because you are going to get wet! Egyptian shaduf project A shaduf is a [...]
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Draw your own hieroglyphics – Ancient Egypt project
Egyptian hieroglyphics project This is a project you can do inside the classroom, or on a rainy day. Look at hieroglyphs Show the children examples of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Explain that [...]
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How to make paper – Ancient China project
Paper-making project: Chinese paper money This is a good sit-down project for a sunny day. Factories in China made paper out of cloth rags and mulberry bark (more on Chinese [...]
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Chinese foot-binding and braces – a project
A Chinese shoe for a woman with bound feet - Chinese foot-binding Chinese foot-binding When we think about Chinese clothing, it strikes us as really weird that women bound little [...]
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How to make a compass – China Activities
Early Chinese compass (reconstruction) - a compass project Who invented the compass? Chinese scientists invented the first compasses, around the 200s AD, near the end of the Han Dynasty. Science in [...]
