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Hands-on Romans History

January 12, 2015 Ticia 10 Comments

Last fall the kids and I spent a week creating various Hands-on Roman history projects. I’ve been slowly sharing bits and pieces of them over time, but I wanted to get them all out there and done. Besides, we have some other fun projects we’ve done, and I’d just as soon have all of our Roman history lessons together in one place.

Hands on Roman history

That, and I’ve been writing a book on Hands on Roman History, so this is the outline for that book and topics I’m thinking about.

Future Ticia 2022 here, I did not write this book. I have notes and vague lessons written out, and I need to finalize it so I can publish all the different lessons. It’s a lot of work to get it done.

Hands on Roman History: Important People

  • Romulus
Hannibal and the punic wars lesson
  • Skippeo Africanus and Hannibal
  • First Triumvirate
  • Julius Caesar (I have more to add for him, big surprise I found him interesting)
  • Mark Antony and Cleopatra
  • Octavius Caesar
  • Cladius
  • Nero
  • Vespacian
  • Hadrian
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Constantine
  • Justinian

Hands-on Roman History: Daily Life and Religion

Sometimes the odds and ends of daily life reveal more about a country than the big events.

  • Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses
  • A day in the life of a Roman Citizen
  • Roman clothes
  • Roman Food

Hands-on Roman history projects

This of course is the heart and soul of the project, and we had a lot of fun creating these hands on projects.

Roman mosaic with candy
  • Edible Roman mosaics
  • Edible Roman road
  • Roman Armor
  • Roman Shield
  • Roman Sword
  • Roman Standard
create a fresco lesson
  • Roman fresco
  • Roman house
  • Roman aqueduct
  • Roman victory crown

Hands on Roman history resources

Books to read

hopscotchjan2015

Check out some of the other great series at iHomeschool Network’s Hopscotch.

Check out more great history ideas over at the Massive Guide to Homeschooling History

*picture from Bert Kaufmann used with permission

history ancient history, ancient Rome, Europe, Mystery of History 1, Mystery of History 2

Comments

  1. Lindsay @ BytesofMemory says

    January 12, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Looks like an awesome outline for a book!!

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  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    January 12, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    I agree, it would make a great book! I think you do a wonderful job of bringing history to life for kids.

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  3. Almost Unschoolers says

    January 13, 2015 at 8:32 am

    I think it looks like a very good idea for a book!

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  4. Claire says

    January 13, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    I would have bought it when I did the Romans, but we’ve finished now. It does look excellent though.

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  5. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    January 15, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    I think it would be awesome as a book! By the way, you should link your new posts to this one 🙂 I can’t wait to read more.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 16, 2015 at 12:16 am

      That’s on my to do list tomorrow. I just completely retyped my post for tomorrow. Apparently I didn’t hit save when I finished writing it, so the silly thing was almost completely empty. Sigh, and double sigh.

  6. Marie-Claude Leroux says

    January 15, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    I think getting this together as a book is an excellent idea!

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  7. Pam Schrock says

    March 1, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    I just discovered this post. Did you ever complete the book? How might I find out more about purchasing it?

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 5, 2018 at 2:53 pm

      I haven’t, but when are you looking at using it, because it’s 75% done, so I could get it done fairly quickly now that I’ve figured out a better way to write it.

    • Shannon says

      October 27, 2021 at 1:46 pm

      You should get this done if you never did. You are great at bringing history, and particularly Biblical history, to life.

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