Dec 5 Greeks, more Greeks and even MORE GREEKS!!!! Internet activities

Here are your internet activities for Friday Dec 5th. There are a wide range of things to do, so pick and choose.

Recommended

Ancient Greeks (has the Greek Hero game)

Odyssey Online: Greece

Ancient Greece

All about Ancient Greece

Games

Go-for-the-Gold

Quizzes (record tour score and show me when I get back)

Timeline Quiz

What do you know about the Ancient Greeks?

gods and goddesses

Apollo and His Oracle

Explore Greek Mythology (by the Lightening Thief author)

VIDEO: The Odyssy

Alexander the Great

Google map of his life

VIDEO: Alexander the Great

VIDEO: Persians and the Greeks

Greek Drama

VIDEO: Oedipus Rex

Places to see, things to do ---Oct 24th

Here are the list of sites you can explore.

Start Here--pick one

Crash Course History Video -- 9:30 long (very worth it)

Life in India

Indus Civilization

Indus Valley ** Indus Trader Game

Ancient India

Indus Valley Civilization

Ancient Trade Routes

Ancient Battlefield

India; Early Civilizations

Video: Hinduism and Buddhism

India;s First Empires

Hinduism

Hinduism

Buddhism

Visit a temple

Documentary Day!!!! Oct 10

Pick one to watch. You will have to talk for 3 minutes about what you watched.

Birth of Civilization  Sumer.....

Mesopotamia: The Sumerians

These two must be watched together:

           The Assyrians: Masters of War (26 minutes long)

           The Assyrians: Lion Hunt Art (30 minutes long)

Babylon: A Wonder of the Ancient World

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Egypt's 10 Greatest Discoveries

Great Pharaohs of Egypt

Ancient Egypt's Buildings

The Secret of The Great Pyramid: Khufu Revealed

King Tut

Ramses: The Last Great Pharaoh

Ramses the Great

Ramses II

If you want to look ahead:

The Indus Valley Civilization

Places to go on Oct 2

Don't forget to fill out your review slip. Next week will be documentary week, You'll be choosing a long video to watch and will have give a short presentation about the video. We will talk about this.

RECOMMENDED

British Museum: Ancient Egypt

BBC: Ancient Egypt

Discovering Ancient Egypt

History Channel: Ancient Egypt

All about the Nile

Games

Egyptian-tomb-adventure

Explore a Pyramid

Escape from a mummy

Life as an Ancient Egyptian

Tomb of the unknown Mummy

Videos

Ancient-Egypt

5 Things you didn't know about Ancient Egypt   True or Not? You decided.

The sunken city

Hieroglyphics

PBS: Hieroglyphics

Pyramids

Explore the Pyramids (360 degree views)

Picture Galleries

Virtual Library: Tomb Paintings

Explorations for Sept 25th

Don't for get to fill out your activity review paper.

RECOMMENDED

Lots of Cultural Information

Egypt

Hieroglyphics

Write your name in Hieroglyphics

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta.Stone

Make a mummy

Mummy Maker

Pyramid builder

Lots of games here

Games: Ancient Egypt

Trip to Egypt

Tomb of the unknown mummy

Whole bunch of links on the left

Egyptian Gods


Long Vidoes

Video: Tombs of the Gods

Video: 10 Greatest Discoveries of Ancient Egypt

Video: Ancient Egypt's Buildings

Pyramids

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/destinations/egypt-pyramids-dest

www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/home.html

Explorations for Thursday, Sept 18th

Here are the list of topics. This time I have a sheet I want you to fill out when you are done. I will give you time during the class to work on it.


Mesopotamian Civilizations

The First Empires

Hammurabi

Timeline of Babylon

Lots of Babylon Links

EGYPT

The Nile Valley

Egypt's Old Kingdom

The Egyptian Empire

Ancient Egypt (slideshow)

The Mummy

Egyptian Myths

Ancient Egypt (2 games)

Hieroglyphs

Pyramid Builder (game)

Mummy Maker (game)

7 Ancient Wonders of the World

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/wonders/

topics for Thursday, Sept 11th

Please use these websites to explore some topic related chapter 2 in your history book. You also need to turn in the handout I'm giving you about the websites.

Highly Recommended 

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

short animations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EPqobSsD8  Turning Points in History

Other Topics

Cuneiform
--- http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/literature/
--- http://www.paleoaliens.com/event/babylonian/

City States

--- http://ghn.globalheritagefund.org/?id=1253  Explore the ruins of Ur
--- http://www.ancient.eu/ur/
--- http://www.penn.museum/sites/iraq/?page_id=48

Ziggurat

--- ziggurat informationl
--- http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ziggurats.php

Sargon

--- http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/nemonarchs/g/Sargon.htm
--- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.asp
--- http://www.history4kids.co/2013/02/sargon-conqueror.html

Gilgamesh

---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGhEu9elnA 10 minutes long (see me for headphones)

Utnapishtim

--- http://www.lifepaths360.com/index.php/mesopotamian-heroes-utnapishtim-7365/  Flood story