Help me give my students a "Passport" to the Ancient World, where they can share the details of their travel with their family and friends.
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My Students
I haven't met them yet, but my students are 11-12 years old incoming 6th graders from 2 different feeder elementary schools that both did a hybrid approach to school due to the pandemic. Most of these kiddos haven't been in school full time since March of 2020!
I can imagine that there are plenty of emotions about coming back to school full-time.
Most students are probably pretty excited to come to school and see their friends as well as make new friends. There are probably also some that are anxious or have fear and anxiety about coming back to school. Distance learning was very hard on some of our students. My desire is for each and every one of my students to feel welcomed back to school and get excited about learning again!
I teach 6th grade Ancient World History, and after this past year on lock-down and travel restrictions, I would like to take my students around the world!
My Project
The supplies I have requested for my project will be used to make a "passport" for each of my 180 students with pages where they will describe their "travels" to the Ancient World- Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece and Rome.
They will record details of the Civilizations using the framework of the 5 Themes of Geography.
I am developing "stamps" for each civilization so that I can stamp their passports at the conclusion of each "visit". We will also be discovering (making), as archeologists, an artifact on each one of our stops. For example, in Mesopotamia, students will "discover" clay tablets with cuneiform writing on them.
A resource that a colleague had last year was Flocabulary. The videos for 6th grade Ancient World history were fantastic! The songs help hook students’ interest in the subject. The resources for learning the vocabulary will be great for all my students, but especially the English Language Learners who may struggle with some of the more specific terms. I want ALL my students to access these concepts.
After being in lock-down for the past year, it will be great to do some traveling!!
More than half of students from low‑income households
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