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Tag: ancient Babylon
Challenge your kids to make a shaduf
I’m about to do something controversial. Are you ready? When teaching ancient history for our history lessons a few years ago, I put the invention of the shaduf with Ancient Mesopotamia rather than Ancient Egypt. But Ticia, isn’t the cradle of civilization in ancient Egypt, not Mesopotamia? See, here’s the thing, it’s an argument. I’ve…
Xerxes lesson for elementary kids
Hey, Future Ticia 2020 here, and I’m updating a few things here, and expanding on this Xerxes lesson, which is part of a greater library of history lessons and in particular, part of our Ancient History and Babylon unit. I now mostly return you to 2014 Ticia. Our Xerxes lesson is actually one we completed…
Ancient Sumeria Books
This past year we went through ancient history at a breakneck pace, and that meant I made lots of book lists for our history lessons. Once we finished our Worldview Unit, we started into Ancient Sumeria, and of course, I went to our library and got every single book they had on Ancient Sumeria, so…
5 easy Ancient Babylon lessons to teach your kids
When Jeff and I got married we went to London for our honeymoon. We spent large amounts of time in the British Museum traipsing about through ancient ruins, and trying to figure out what those people were thinking. The Babylonian ruins were particularly fascinating to explore as they had large portions of walls that were…
Hanging Gardens of Babylon Lesson
As we’ve been going through our ancient history lessons I’ve been looking for opportunities to use Legos and Minecraft. They are both things my kids enjoy, so when we reached the Hanging Gardens of Babylon I knew they needed to be built. I sent the kids upstairs to find as many plant Legos as we…