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- Provides units organized by ancient civilization. Includes over a dozen units within each ancient civilization, including China, India, Greece, Egypt, Rome, Mesopotamia, Africa, Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. Covers daily activities in ancient times to bring each civilization to life.
- Provides lesson ideas regarding women.
Lists
- Provides a listing of resources for various ancient civilizations, such as Greek, Roman, Etruscian, Celtic, Egyptian, Mayan, Aztec, Gupta, Incan, Han, and Minoan. 1-00
- Includes the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Vikings, Celts, Maoris, Incas, Mayas and other resources assembled by 5th and 6th grade students.
- Provides links to people, places, and events. Ties resources into links in the arts related to the same time periods and places.
- Includes Egypt, Greece and other ancient civilizations.
- Provides a high quality and comprehensive site for ancient history.
- Provides dozens of sources of information on ancient civilizations.
- Includes Vikings, Stone Age, and Ice Age, as well as the traditional cultures of the Aztecs, Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Romans.
- Provides resources on Latin America.
- Provides resources on South America.
- Provides links to costumes, scripts, props, musical, and other related materials.
- Provides resources compiled by librarians.
- Provides college level syllabus and links to reading materials for courses in Medieval history.
- Provides medieval sources of information by topic, such as King Arthur and Authurian Legends, life and times, clothing and weapons, music, Shakespeare and art.
- Provides medieval sources of information by topic, such as manuscripts, King Arthur, life and times, literature, music, Shakespeare, art and religion.
Materials
- Provides a timeline comparing samples of art from different cultures worldwide.
- Includes around 750 maps from 3,000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. arranged by historical period.
- Includes maps of the world going back as far as 150 A.D. 2-00
- Includes drawings of constellations as well as locations of stars.
Papers
- Provides a description of de Soto's passage across early America in an article entitled: "Hernando de Soto's Conquest of America." Provides a description of early contacts between Spanish and Native Americans using translations of Native American accounts dating back to the original times.
- Provides a description of early contacts between Spanish and Native Americans using translations of Native American accounts dating back to the original times.
- Provides information on the art, mythology, laws, and daily life of ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Illyrians, Celts, Phoenicians, and Persians. 6-99
- Provides information about ancient civilizations, a game and more.
- Provides information on ancient life within the Antarctica and the Arctic Circle.
- Provides information on Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America, Central America and South America.
- Provides resources on the history and culture of the Antarctic.
- Provides resources on the history and culture of the Arctic Circle.
- Provides the text for all twelve "books" or chapters.
- Presents ancient cities during their golden ages, as if you were a traveler to those places and times. Cities include Uruk (3000 BC), Memphis (2550 BC), Ur (2050 BC), Anyang (1600 BC), Knossos(1550 BC), Jerusalem & Tyre (950 BC), Athens (445 BC), Rome (176), Constantinople (1015), Paris (1250), Florence (1490), and London (1600).
- Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. Includes ancient China, Egypt, Greece, Rome and India.
- Provides information about homes, clothing, arts, health and other topics of daily life in the Middle Ages of Europe.
- Provides a graphic of the actual document. Also includes a Web version.
- Provides drawings and articles on the Middle Ages by 7th grade students.
- Provides outlines and links organized around European history from 1600 to 1900. See "World Civilizations."
- Provides information on key figures in history, as well as a number of key online documents.
- Provides information on key holidays and their history, including ancient holidays, Black History Month, Earth Day, Easter, President's Day and other holidays. Also provides lesson plans and clip art related to the holidays.
- Provides highlights of inventions from ancient civilizations and a quiz.
- Shows and describes 46 incredible inventions from the ancient world, such as a battery, a steam engine, and a coin-operated holy water dispenser, from the Smith College Museum.
- Provides a timetable for development of law in history.
- Provides a description of the evolution of mammals and includes links to key changes. 3-00
- Provides alternative formats of exploring paleontology. 3-00
Projects
- Provides information and suggested activities that could accompany a related Discovery Channel Video.
- Provides the beginning of stories in which students make a decision about which path to take.
- Provides interactive adventures to explore why four ancient civilizations collapsed.
Worksheets
- Provides almost a dozen worksheets, mostly related to ancient history. Requires Acrobat Reader, free software. 1-00