LMTech_ancient

The Age of Exploration http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listresearcma.html

The link above is to a "hotlist" created by a library media specialist. Hotlists are great ways to collect a grouping of resources focused on one topic or issue. She created hers using an online tool called Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/). You could create a hotlist on your school wiki as well.

Followup Activity:
Create a hotlist of resources that you might use to support learning about ancient civilizations and exploration. Post a link here (or e-mail it to susan.stansberry@okstate.edu).

Here are some extra links on the topic: Rxplorers Social Studies Unit http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLRESOURCES/units/byrnesF2000/heista/stafford.html.htm Treasures from the Past: Exploration WebQuest http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dschoettlin/webquest2/explorers.htm Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/indexlife.html

From Deanna Spencer: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/ Explore the Egyptian Pyramids. Go on a tour through the pyramids of Egypt. Look around at the Egyptian landscape from the top of the pyramids. Answer the following questions: 1.       What did Egyptians call their land? 2.      What does this word mean? 3.      How much of Egypt is desert? 4.      What is an archaeologist? 5.      What is the most interesting thing you learned that you didn’t know before? I used this website and gave my students questions to answer to keep them focused on the subject. The students helped each other find the answers to the questions. I used this lesson in my classroom last week. The students enjoyed looking online at the pictures and locating the answers to the questions. They got to take a virtual tour inside the pyramids and look around at the burial chambers. I had a lot of positive feedback from my students. They liked looking at the things they were interested in and enjoyed the time they spent “exploring”. They all found interesting facts and we had a discussion in class about the interesting things they found on the website. My students have a better understanding of what their Social Studies book is talking about now that they saw the things online. This lesson took 1 ½ hours to complete. It doesn’t look like it would take that long, but I didn’t want to rush the students. I wanted to let them explore and do some “self-teaching”. They only had to answer 5 questions, but they learned so much more.

Researching Ancient Rome In collaboration with sixth grade teachers, students will complete an online research project on Ancient Rome. Students will be divided into three teams. Each team will be reasonable for researching one of the following periods of the Roman Empire. Team 1 – Rome as a Kingdom Team 2 – Rome as a Republic Team 3 – Rome as an Empire Each team will be reporting on the following aspects of their assigned era of the Roman Empire. 1.     Government 2.     An influential person or persons on their assigned era 3.     Cultural Significance (ex. Clothes, food, custom etc.)

Possible Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.wsu.edu www.mrdonn.org www.fsmitha.com www.roman-empire.net Students will follow-up their research with a power point presentation which they will present to their class.

Emma Walker - walker@briggs.k12.ok.us Library Media Specialist - Briggs School