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Elementary ancient history task cards $5-10
Ancient China Stations with Graphic Organizer & Google Reading Investigation
This content-rich, student-centered, and interactive activity has 8 stations detailing the geography, achievements, social classes, leadership, economy, and religion of Ancient China. Students travel through the Zhou, Shang, Qin, and Han dynasties!The readings include pictures, charts, and maps. Questions and interactive mini-activities are underneath the reading and on a separate worksheet for teacher choice. Teacher instructions and four different activity ideas for the same Common Core readin
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4th - 8th
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13 Colonies Task Card Bundle
13 Colonies Task Card Bundle The 13 Colonies Task Card Bundle contains the following three task card sets at a 25% discount: - New England Colonies Task Cards- Middle Colonies Task Cards- Southern Colonies Task CardsThe 13 Colonies Task Card Bundle contains 108 task cards. Each set has students identifying important aspects of the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies and answering questions that dig deeper into the history and geography of the 13 Colonies.Use the 13 Colonies Task Cards as a
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5th - 8th
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Ancient Greek Columns Bundle (Task Cards Included)
This is a great unit to teach Ancient Greek Columns and Greek Architecture on the elementary level. It meets the standards for Georgia's third grade social studies SS3H1. This combines several of my Greek Columns products together to save you some money. In this bundle, you will find:
Student workbook-2 formats
Teacher workbook-2 formats
1 Notebook Foldable
1 Scavenger Hunt Activity
Task Card set-24 cards in all
Word Wall set-17 cards
Posters-10 full color posters 4.25x 5.5
Information present
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3rd - 5th
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Ancient Civilizations Geography Program
This Ancient Civilizations Geography Bundle, also known as Geo-Power, is a proven system that increases students’ geographic awareness in a fun and meaningful way. This Ancient History Geography program is tailored to Ancient Civilizations classes and includes 6 pages of printable country flashcards, 6 slideshows (both PowerPoint and Google Slides) featuring the countries on the flashcards, and quizzes (with answer keys) that correspond to the country flashcards. For best results, you will want
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ancient Civilizations Back to School Bundle | Activities, Posters, Timelines
Greek Mythology Breakout Activity - Task Cards Puzzle Challenge
Test out your students puzzle decoding skills with this Greek Mythology Task Cards Puzzle Breakout. This activity gets students out of their seat and moving around the room! The printable task card puzzles includes 6 stations. Each station has 4 questions for a total of 24 questions related to Greek Mythology.Topics include: Greek gods such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Athena, and more Students race to see who can get the final codes! A friendly competition always increases engagement. Studen
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5th - 7th
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Thanksgiving Around the World Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Thanksgiving Around the World Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Thanksgiving traditions in Germany, China, Japan, India, Lithuania, and Ghana.Students will revisit t
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4th - 7th
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Ancient Civilizations STEM Activities and Challenges
Travel through Ancient Civilizations with this STEM activities passport exploring Ancient History. Are you looking for ways to integrate Geography, Social Studies, Science and Engineering? A student STEM passport through Ancient Civilizations completing STEM challenges and projects, can tick off all of these. These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. Students will learnhow to identify key elements of informationhow
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Greek Mythology Bundle Grades 4-7
This bundle is a great way to review Greek Mythology. Included are three engaging activities that will keep your students interested as they learn and review the myths. Included are:Webquest Task Cards- Greek Mythology Grades 4-7This set of 24 task cards is a great way to review Greek Mythology while your students are reading for information and using the internet to answer the questions. Each Card is a Mini Quest with a link and 2 questions about characters in Greek Mythology.Greek Myth Bingo -
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4th - 7th
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Greek Gods Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Ancient Greece
The Greek Gods (Olympians) Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Greek Gods, Greek Mythology, Titans, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and other Olympian Gods. Great addition to your An
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4th - 7th
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Ancient Rome Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Ancient Rome Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Ancient Rome, Romulus and Remus, Julius Caesar, Pompeii, Colosseum, Augustus.Students will revisit the non-fiction text
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4th - 7th
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Halloween Around the World Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Halloween Around the World Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Halloween traditions in Cambodia, China, Romania, Ireland, Scotland, Germany.Students will revisit the no
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4th - 7th
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Aztec Inca Maya Civilizations Color By Code Scavenger Hunts BUNDLE
Are you looking for a way to engage your students in their study of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya empires in an interesting and active way? If so, this set of scavenger hunts can do that.In these hunts students will learn how each empire developed, how they lived, their traditions, and more. The scavenger hunts (or Easel activities) can be used to supplement a study of these ancient empires, enhance the understanding of stories, or practice reading informational text.Each hunt presents students wit
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4th - 6th
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Peloponnesian War Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Greece
The Peloponnesian War Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Peloponnesian War, Sparta, Ancient Greece, Athens, Peace of Nicias. Great addition to your Ancient Greece unit.Stu
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4th - 7th
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Middle Ages Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Middle Ages Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Middle Ages, Bubonic Plague, Feudal System, Crusades. Students will revisit the non-fiction text multiple times, practic
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4th - 7th
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Dia de los Muertos Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Holiday
The DÃa de los Muertos Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: DÃa de los Muertos, traditions, origins.Students will revisit the non-fiction text multiple times, practicing rea
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4th - 7th
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Ancient History Task Card Set
Ancient History is a 6 ancient civilizations task card set to learn basic information about each one.
This is a 98 card set each with its own cover page including the following civilizations: Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Mayan, Inca, and Aztec.
These cards work well for class centers as learning tools for ancient history. They can also be used for creating scavenger hunts or to develop worksheets where student finds the card that would answer the questions given. They can also be used as a starting
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2nd - 5th
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Ancient Greece Bundle
This nonfiction unit is great to use when studying Ancient Greece, Greek Architecture, Greek Mythology, Contributions by Ancient Greeks, Greek Olympics or a novel set in Ancient Greece such as Hour of the Olympics. This 58 page unit is all you'll need to teach Ancient Greece on the elementary level.
This Ancient Greece Bundle includes the following:
7 page student tab booklet
7 page teacher tab booklet with answers in red
20 word wall cards
3 foldables-The Parthenon, Geography of Ancient Greece
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, destruction, artifacts. Great addition to your Ancient Rome unit.Students will r
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4th - 7th
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Babylonian Empire Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Babylonian Empire Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi, rise and fall of the empire. Great addition to your Ancient Mesopotamia unit.Student
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4th - 7th
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Sumerians Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Mesopotamia
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerians, ziggurats, religion, inventions, city-states. Great addition to your Ancien
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4th - 7th
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Alexander the Great Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Alexander the Great Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Alexander the Great, conquered lands, and Ancient Greece. Great addition to your Ancient Greece unit.Students wi
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4th - 7th
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Roman Emperors Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension
The Roman Emperors Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Ancient Rome, Roman Republic, Caesar, Augustus, Titus, Nero, Galba and more. Great addition to your Ancient Rome uni
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4th - 7th
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Roman Colosseum Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Ancient Rome
The Roman Colosseum Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: Ancient Rome, Roman Colosseum, gladiators, emperors, hypogeum. Great addition to your Ancient Rome unit.Students wil
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4th - 7th
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War of the Roses Escape Room - Task Cards - Reading Comprehension - Middle Ages
The War of the Roses Task Card Escape Room gives students a chance to practice reading comprehension skills and decode puzzles, all while actively learning! With their reading passage in hand, students will move around the classroom and visit 16 task cards. The task cards are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types. This reading comprehension activity covers the following topics: War of the Roses, England, House of Lancaster, House of York, political leaders, and battles. Great addition to you
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4th - 7th
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If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about ancient history, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of ancient history resources available, including activities and lessons on ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient China, and ancient Mesopotamia, to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach ancient history to your students with ease.
Ancient history activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about ancient history:
Map Making
With map-making activities you can not only teach students about ancient civilizations, but also incorporate geography into your lessons. As they label and color maps, students can learn about important places in ancient civilizations, chart trade routes, and learn how empires expanded (and fell) over time.
Primary Source Analysis
One of the best ways to learn about ancient civilizations is through the artifacts and writings of people from that particular period of time. Encourage students to analyze primary sources to gain a deeper understanding about bygone eras of history. For instance, you can have students read accounts of the destruction of Pompeii and discuss it as a class.
Centers & Stations
Through the use of centers, students can collaborate and discuss topics and content they examine for each era in history. For example, you can have students navigate through four or five different centers or stations to help them learn about different aspects of Ancient Chinese culture, like literature, geography, government, and major historical events or achievements.
By making ancient history come to life through a variety of interactive and immersive activities, teachers can help students develop a deeper appreciation for the subject.
Frequently asked questions for teaching about ancient history
What is ancient history?
Ancient history refers to the period of human history that takes place from the invention of writing to late antiquity (spanning from about 3000 BC to AD 650). This era includes the study of various ancient civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, and others. Ancient history plays a critical role in helping us understand the origins and development of human civilizations and the influence it had on contemporary cultures and societies.
What are examples of ancient history?
The Persian Wars, the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the decline and fall of the Roman empire are all examples of important milestones and events that you can teach about in ancient history.
What types of ancient history resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of ancient history resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units.
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Educators can save time preparing ancient history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ancient history resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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