Timeline (string and post-its)
Map of Rome then vs now (print Blackline maps)
Founding of Rome and the Romulus/Remus story
Who were they
Global Society/Retaining heritage and pride (like our country)
Holidays and Religion (make Janus for over doors)
Villas (make fresco, mosaic)
Political System
Money (make coins)
Classes/Citizens/Women
Family
Names
Virtues
Bulla (make bulla)
Larium (make larium)
Clothes (make tunic)
Education
Language
Books (make scroll, codex)
Medicine
Hours/Calendar (visit Gardens on Spring Creek sundial)
Cities
Architecture (make a pizza box forum)
Highways (make fairy garden with proper Roman road)
Water/Sewer (make aqueduct)
Entertainment
Colosseum
Theater
Circus maximus
games (make/play knucklebones)
Important sites today ?
Wars
Soldiers/Armies (do a penny battle, make a triumphal column)
Things the Romans invented/perfected
Fall of Rome
As you can see, there's a lot to it. And I'm not even going into major battles/leaders as I don't think they'd remember all that anyway. And I'm skipping religion because they already know a lot about the Roman/Greek Pantheon and the politics of the shift to Christianity is not going to interest them.
So the question is, do I wan to do this as a group or alone? It seems like a lot of work to do for just 2 girls. It would be no more work to do it for a handful of kids. But if it gets to be too many, then it would be more work. Here are the options, as I see it:
- I could design a whole week of summer camp for kids around this theme. There are enough crafts to do ~3/day for 5 days!
- Or I could design a Girl Scout Try-it. It could be for our group, or we could offer it for a small fee to other troops too (like the Mythology Try-it the girls just went to in CSprings.) They would do stations, learn various things and get a badge. Of course, we'd have to pare it down to 5 or 6 stations and 2-3 hours.
- Or I could just do it with my girls.
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