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Darius 1 preschool lesson

October 2, 2017 Ticia 9 Comments

Last week over at Mama Smiles there was a post about using painter’s tape to make roads, and I thought that sounds like fun, and I need to remember to do that.  Then, we read our homeschool history lesson for the day in the Mystery of History 1*, and Darius 1 was known for fixing the roads in the Babylonian Kingdom and putting in a lot of infrastructure [This is future Ticia here, I’ve got a super busy week, and I’d updated this post ages ago, and thought I’d reshare it with you, so this week you get some of my favorites from years ago].

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Darius 1 lesson for young kidsDarius 1 picture used under Creative Commons license, image was cropped, text and overlays added

 

AH HA!  Perfect, so now we got to build our painter’s tape* roads.

 

So our Darius 1 preschool lesson was building roads out of painter’s tape

Darius preschool lesson he built roads

And our roads traveled all over.  It went up a hill.  A very steep hill.

Darius lesson acting out roads being travelled on

And then the elephants started walking down it.  No wonder he had to do so much maintenance for his roads.  Elephants go down them.

 

Of course that was the only thing remotely in the correct time period that went down that road.

Darius 1 preschool lesson roads all over

In the boys’ history of the world the Star Wars empire came in and contributed their tech.  I don’t know which side they came in on, because these were relatively peaceful soldiers.  They built roads, and drove up and down them.

 

Then they disappeared upstairs and fought EPIC battles to free the galaxy of unwanted scourge.  EPIC

 

Want some more Babylon ideas?  Maybe learn about the kings before or after Darius 1?

Darius 1 preschool history lesson

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Xerxes and the Hellespont bridge

Battle of Marathon

Queen Esther

history ancient Babylon, ancient history, Mystery of History 1, preschool

Comments

  1. littlewondersdays says

    February 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Too funny about the Star Wars! Neat lesson plan.

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  2. Mama Hen says

    February 22, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    Will you please come and do all these fun activites with James? It makes me tired just thinking about it. I am more of the “read a book about it” type mom.

    And for about four years Star Wars ruled in our house. My two big boys turned everything into a Star Wars battle and/or story.

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  3. Phyllis says

    February 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Yes, we have also had many lessons such as Darius' roads occupied by Star Wars characters.

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  4. MaryAnne says

    February 22, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    lol! That is a seriously steep road! And such diverse travelers =)

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  5. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    February 22, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Sounds like they were on the side of the Persians 🙂

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  6. Christy says

    February 22, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    I love the steep road, wow, that must have been tough to build!

    I have wanted to make tape roads too. They are so cool! Thanks for the reminder. We have school vacation all week, so maybe we will get to this!

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  7. Raising a Happy Child says

    February 22, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    I love what they did with the road. I was just thinking today whether the masking tape will leave marks on the carpet…

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  8. Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog says

    February 22, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    So much fun!! I think my girls would love to make roads w/painters tape too — thanks for sharing! I love how your boys have their own versions of history… they are so clever!

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  9. Debbie says

    February 24, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    So funny an elephant and star wars characters. I love your children's imaginations.

    Reply

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