Last week we wrapped up a very fun Ancient History unit.  After learning what history is, we spent about a week on each of the following civilizations:  Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China and Ancient Aztecs. 

This past week, I asked them each to choose the civilazation that was their favorite and create a presentation about it.  They could choose to present their information any way they liked and we video taped them. 

Mahayla created a poster with information about various aspects of the Ancient Greek lifestyle.  She made a discus, drew a wonderful picture of a horse and chariot, set up a book for a visual and dressed in a Greek fashion of the time.  She really took this project seriously and made a great presentation.  :o)  (Sorry for the dark pictures.  I keep saying we need a new camera and I really mean it!)

Caleb also created a poster, but his was mostly pictures he (we) found on the internet that he labeled.  He made a clay model of the Geat Wall of China, dressed in a robe and served us hot tea.  I thought it was excellent for his first-ever presentation like this.

I really liked doing an end of the unit project and I think the kids did, too.  I think we'll make these part of each unit this year.  Here are a few pictures of the notebooks we worked on throughout the unit. 

Next stop:  Space!