Darius 1 preschool lesson ancient history kinder 1st ancient Mesopotamia ancient persia

Darius 1 preschool lesson

 As 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. He was a pretty impressive leader in Ancient history, especially after the craziness of the Babylonians (Future Ticia 2024 says, I need to make a generic Ancient Mesopotamia Unit post, since that’s how I divided the post). Then I remembered how 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.

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

This is future Ticia 2017 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 kids

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Okay, Future Ticia 2024 is adding this in. It’s helpful to have some more material for the lesson. We used Mystery of History 1 for our spine back in elementary school, and then for middle/high school I wrote our history lessons because I wanted to focus more on topics not included elsewhere.

Yes, I am extra. However I somehow lost all of my websites I had saved, so I’ll have to add that in later on. So, I’ll just share with you the videos I saved.

First, here is my full Ancient Mesopotamia playlist. This is what I used with my kids for this unit.

First, here is a general overview of Ancient Persia. I enjoy Overly Sarcastic Productions as a fun sarcastic way to get an overview of history or a deep dive. But, it is only for middle school and older.

This is a short summary of who he was and why he was important, only three minutes.

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

Darius 1 preschool lesson roads all over

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

Darius 1 preschool lesson ancient history kinder 1st ancient Mesopotamia ancient persia

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 preschool lesson he built roads

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

This post was originally published in 2011, but was republished.


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9 responses to “Darius 1 preschool lesson”

  1. littlewondersdays Avatar
    littlewondersdays

    Too funny about the Star Wars! Neat lesson plan.

  2. 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.

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

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

  5. An Almost Unschooling Mom Avatar
    An Almost Unschooling Mom

    Sounds like they were on the side of the Persians 🙂

  6. 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!

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

  8. Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog Avatar
    Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog

    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!

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

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