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Higher education ancient history handouts
African Kingdoms in the Middle Ages Activity | Medieval Africa Centers
This African Kingdoms in the Middle Ages Activity will save you time and stress as you introduce your students to the significant civilizations of Africa during Medieval times while students practice vital Social Studies skills. It includes center or investigation cards on the origination and location, wealth, leadership, and decline of Ghana, Mali, Songhai, the Eastern Kingdoms, and the Central & Southern Kingdoms. Skills Practiced:Reading for ContentTopic Investigation & Categorizatio
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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World Religions Investigation and Comparison Centers or Stations Activity
Introduce your students to the major World Religions with this Investigation and Comparison Centers Activity that hits the Social Studies skills as it addresses World and Geography concepts and standards. This is a complete centers activity for the investigation and comparison of the major world religions. Easily set it up as stations, a gallery walk, or table folders for students to work on individually or in small groups.Students will visit each center to see vivid images and to read concise
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: World Religions Comparison Centers Activity & ORQ Writing Bundle
Distance Learning - Ceramics (E-Day) "Who-What-When-Where" Ceramics History!
The "handouts" included in this download have been uploaded to Google Drive, (The Google folder link is included in the "Google-links.docx" file) and made into "Drag and Drops" used with Google Drive for Remote/Distance Learning Days. Just "Make a copy" to your Drive and share with your students!Additional Visual Arts E-Learning Activities can be found here.If your Ceramics students are like mine, you know that students do NOT wish to spend studio time learning about ceramics history! But as art
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Fall of Rome Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Activity
We've got you covered tomorrow with this ready to print collaborative, critical thinking activity. Use on a Monday or Friday for a SURE FIRE boredom-busting pre-reading activity. I've used this for 8 years as the lead in to our section on the factors that led to the fall of the Western Roman empire. Printable handouts, Powerpoint/Google Slide Images, best practice tips, and answer keys are all provided. The Activity:Rome is burning - Literally and figuratively. There is economic unrest, p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Maya Calendar Pack
A digital download of the materials required for both making and learning how to read the 52 Maya calendar round. Includes a template of the calendar, with 5 separate rings to cut out, information on how to use it and a quiz.A great teaching aid in understanding how the Maya calendar works. The template can be printed for each child and they can make their own calendar to keep!Consists of 4 A4 sheets.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Greek Mythology Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Pack: The Odyssey, Gods, etc
Students will learn about the Titans, the Olympians, the monsters, terminology, and these stories: Hercules and the Twelve Labors, Prometheus and the Theft of Fire, Narcissus and Echo, Perseus and Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur, Flight of Icarus, The Tragic Hero Oedipus, King Midas and His Touch, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Odyssey. These crossword and word search worksheets cover Greek Mythology in a fun and engaging way! These are great for early finishers, bellringers, and sub plans!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Trojan War: A Collection of Reader's Theater Script-Stories
Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach the Iliad and the saga of the Trojan War? These six 40-minute script-stories bring the epic story to life by allowing your students to inhabit the classic characters. The entire plot of Homer's Iliad is included. Other selections like "The Judgment of Paris," Euripides's Philoctetes, and "The Fall of Troy" from the Aeneid round out the story. Although dialogue and touches of humor have been added to increase engagement, the adaption is incredibly
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Greek & Roman Art History-Ancient World Middle & High School Bundle
Art History-Ancient World Bundle Ancient Art and Architecture Growing Bundle allows you to lock in now for this price and receive all the new products for no additional cos for those who lock in now!!!This bundle will expand and the price will increase!!!Art History-Ancient World Bundle includes:1. Greek Architecture PowerPointArt History- Greek Architecture- Art HistoryGreek Architecture! Greek Architecture!I love Greek Architecture! Who doesn't love Greek architecture!? Greek Architecture ha
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Greek Art & Architecture Powerpoint and Handout Bundle
Architecture/Greek Art and Architecture Bundle - PowerPoint and handoutGreek Art and Architecture has been an incredible influence in Western Art. These PowerPoints explore the achievements of Greek Art and highlights the key works that changed the history of art.2 Art History PowerPoints- 1 Greek Architecture(24 slides)Architecture- Ancient GreekI love Ancient Greek Architecture! Who doesn't love great architecture!?Architecture - Greek PowerPoint is a great instructional resource for the art
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Deaf History, 1000 BC - 1800 AD
This is a great condensed summary of key events and people in deaf history between 1000 BC & 1800 AD. From ancient Hebrew law, to Plato & Aristotle, to Ponce de Leon, Martha's Vineyard and to Gallaudet. This handout is a great study guide or reference for students. Students get to see that the roots of sign language and deaf history run deep. Students get to appreciate that there were some very important and often overlooked people who fought for deaf rights. This poster/handout reco
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Flat Earth- Conspiracy Theory- Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
I used to hate it when students would bring up conspiracy theories like Flat Earth, as I thought it was my job to convince them that minute why this was unreasonable, and I didn't always have facts to do that! I didn't realize that I was missing a major opportunity to engage their interest. Now, I have a plan, and this assignment does all the fact-finding and conspiracy evaluations for me. In addition, this assignment is important because it is skill-based, and it targets evidence and analysis s
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 2: Iron Men - DIGITAL
Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 2: Iron Men48 Question worksheet. (PDF, MSWord Doc, and Google Doc included)Do you want to show the History Channel's amazing new video series, MANKIND: THE STORY OF ALL OF US, EPISODE 2: IRON MEN, but are afraid your students will become bored or stray off-task? Fear no more! While watching the video, students will complete a series of fill-in-the-blank, true or false, and short answer questions. All questions follow the video in order. The worksheet sets
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5th - 10th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Mankind: The Story of All of Us | Bundle of Episodes 1-12
Ancient History Crossword Word Search BUNDLE Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome, Greece
Greece: NOTE: This pack does not contain puzzles on Greek Mythology. Those puzzles can be found when you click here.In this pack, your students will learn about Athens vs. Sparta, The Olympics, Marathon, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates, and so much more!Rome: In this pack, your students will learn about the Roman Gods, the founding of Rome, Circus Maximus, the Colosseum, and so much more!Egypt: Students will learn about Ancient Egyptian culture and mythology including: Cleopatra, the Great
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ancient India Art Project, Warli Art
Ancient India Art Project, Warli Art has 37 pages.•Warli Art is an Ancient and Living, Folk Art form from India.•It started by Ancient Indians in the village of Warli in the state of Maharashtra.•Warli Art was basically Wall Art as people painted scenes from their daily life on the walls of their houses. During ancient times they used different Natural materials to draw and paint on mud plastered walls•The human figures are basically 2 triangles and a woman has a bun and bangles to make her look
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Bundle - Plato and the Allegory of the Cave
This bundle includes the following items: 26-slide PowerPoint (also listed individually on my TpT store)Handout for students (best to email b/c it contains hyperlinks)Worksheet (contains 10 multiple-choice and 5 short-answer questions)This professional, 26-slide PowerPoint presentation is intuitively designed with the teacher in mind. Plato's metaphysics and epistemology are presented in a clear, logical manner using both the Allegory of the Cave and the Divided Line metaphor. Several images are
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Digging for the Truth
This unit is designed around the History Channel series Digging for the Truth (Season 1) and includes student questions and answers for the following films. Great for every history class!
* Mystery of the Anasazi
* Giants of Easter Island
* The Search for El Dorado
* Secrets of the Nazca Lines
* The Lost Tribe of Israel
* Passage to the Maya Underworld
* Quest for King Solomon's Gold
* The Iceman Cometh
* The Holy Grail
* Hunt for the Lost Ark
* Pompeii Secrets Revealed
* Nefertiti:
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
world history ancient & classical civilizations unit survival guide (6 weeks)
Unit 1 “survival guide” – a full six weeks of curriculum formatted as a student handout with daily objectives and checks for understanding. This comprehensive “survival guide” presents an overview of the core issues in history, beginning with the rise of civilization through the Classical Period, ending with the fall of Rome. Each lesson comes with a daily objective at the top, key points aligned to the rigor of AP but accessible for high school students, maps, graphics, and / or sources to ana
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Gods of Egypt Movie - Interactive Worksheet
***Note there is one brief bedroom scene in Gods of Egypt that I skip when I show this scene to middle schoolers.Do you want your students to enjoy watching videos for History class but still really get something educational from it? What better way to reinforce your history lessons then by wrapping up a unit with a video that covers some of the lessons and standards that you are teaching. If you study Ancient Egypt at all in your class, you will want to purchase this. The students also have
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ancient History: Egypt Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Pack
Students will learn about Ancient Egyptian culture and mythology including: Cleopatra, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Eye of Horus, Tutankhamen, Nefertiti, Isis, Anubis, Osiris, and so much more! Puzzles are great for early finishers, bellringers, and sub plans!This Puzzle Pack Includes:Two different crossword puzzles (two versions of each - with and without word banks)One word search (two versions - with and without clues)Answer keysEverything is in PDF formatClick here to follow the store for
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Confucius: Famous Quotes Activity
Students are given a worksheet with many famous quotes from Confucius. They then have to try and figure out what he is trying to say. Don't worry there is a teacher key that will help you explain the quotes to your students. Quotes like "He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." There are 10 quotes in all on the worksheet. This was a really fun activity.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Art History: Egyptian Art - Old, Middle & New Kingdoms
This is a 54-slide PowerPoint I've used with my classes where I've collected from a variety of resources. It reads extremely well, and has a very nice assortment of pictures! It's a little too brief for an AP-level art history class, but PERFECT for an entry-level high school, AP, or 100 college-level class!
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Classical World Bundle
This bundle includes all Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman study guides, both FULL and LITE: timelines, compare & contrast tables, and plans and elevations. Blank student pages and instructor answer keys are included for each item.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hatshepsut - The Woman Who Became King DOCUMENTARY TRANSCRIPT + ACTIVITIES
STAGE 6 - HSC ANCIENT HISTORY PERSONALITIES Option A: Egypt - Hatshepsut This resource is a great way to start the Hatshepsut unit for HSC Ancient History unit on Hatshepsut. It features:An hour long documentary, found on YouTube for freeTranscript with timestamps, so students can read along with the documentary (catering for low-literacy level students) 30 Comprehension Questions for students to answer while watching (questions also have timestamps for where answers are found in the video)4 Ext
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ancient Rome & Greece Government Paired Passage 4-6 Compare Write ELA History
Unlock the mysteries of ancient civilizations with our comprehensive paired text set focusing on the governments of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. Perfect for 4th-6th grade readers, this resource provides engaging texts, guided close reading features, and critical thinking exercises to deepen understanding and promote analytical skills.Each text in this set is meticulously crafted to provide a clear overview of the governmental structures of both Rome and Greece. With lines at the side of each
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Find Ancient History resources | TPT
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.
How do I find ancient history resources on TPT?
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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