Term 2 - Early Civilizations
~ Social Studies
Miss Berndl's Fantabulous Fives
National Geographic Magazine Articles
Unit Objectives
 | Students will be required to choose an ancient culture that interests them
and do an
Ancient Civilizations Project. |
| Students will be expected to use a
Kid-Safe Search Engine to
find articles about their civilization on the Internet. |
| Students can learn what the countries they are studying are like in the
present by going to sites such as
Oxfam
and
Unicef |
| Students will become familiar with
National Geographic Magazine
as a current source of historical events through the discoveries made by
archaeologists. |
| Students will explore how myths and legends are the oral history passed
down from long ago by many cultures. They are encouraged to read myths,
creation stories and legends to learn how cultures and religions are different
yet the same. They will be required to learn a myth or legend from a long time
ago (not Fairy Tales - they are from Medieval Europe - gr. 4) and retell the
story to the class. They will develop story telling skills. |
| Students are encouraged to explore subject-related recreational reading.
History is like a story, except it really happened. This could be in the form
of:
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Early Civilizations
Early Civilizations took place all over the world. Generally they are
described as civilizations long before The Middle Ages (which were studied in
grade 4) By geographic regions, some of the most well known ones are:
| Europe
Ancient Europe,
Vikings,
Celts,
Ancient Greece,
Phoenicians, Balkans, Minoans, Myceneans, Troy,
Ancient Rome,
Mediterranean / Middle East,
Byzantine,
Aegean, Etruria, Spartan, Macedonia, Constantinople |
| Africa Nile Valley,
Egypt, Kush, Ethiopia |
| Southwest Asia Akkadians, Mesopotamia,
Sumerians, Akkadians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians,
Persian Empire,
Maccabees, Parthians,
Phoenicians,
Ottoman Empire |
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Asia
South Asia Aryan,
India Gupta Southeast Asia Khmer China Dynasties North Asia Huns, Genghis Khan,
Mongol Northeast Asia
Ancient Japan, Korea,
Taiwan |
| Australia & Oceania Maori,
Polynesia, Australian Aborigines |
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North America Anasazi Mesoamerica Mayan, Olmec,
Aztec , Toltec South America
Peru Incas,
Moche,
Ancient Americans
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The Dawn of Humans |
| Some other web sites to check out:
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National Geographic Magazine Articles
National Geographic Magazines have some of the world's best photographs in
them. The magazine specializes in things relating to the world - especially
archaeology - which lets us get a glimpse of what life must have been like along
time ago. Studying the pictures & reading the captions in the magazines teach us
a lot. The following issues have articles related to our course of study.
| Ancient Europe
|
| Aug. '68 Land of the Ancient Basques p. 240 |
| Nov. '77 Ancient Europe is Older Than We
Thought p. 615 |
| Oct. 88 Art Treasures from the Ice Age Lascaux
Cave p. 482 (France) |
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| Vikings
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| Celts
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| Ancient Greece
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| Oct. '64 Again the Olympic Challenge p. 488 |
| Aug. '67 Ancient Aphrodisias and Its Marble
Treasures p. 280 |
| Jan. '68 In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great p. 1
(Macedonia) |
| Oct. '68 Journey into Golden Greece and Rome p.
550 |
| July '73 Homeward with Ulysses To The Ionian
Isles of Greece p.1 |
| July '78 Seeking the Tomb of Philip of Macedonia p.
55 (Macedonia) |
| Aug. '86 The Quest for Ulysses p. 197 |
| Nov. '94 When Ancient Greeks Went West p. 2 |
| Dec. '99 Ancient Greece p.54 (Troy) |
| Feb. '00 Ancient Greece II p. 108 |
| Mar. '00 Ancient Greece III p. 42 |
| Ancient Greece
http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/greece/eg_greece_intro.html |
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http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/ |
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http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/ |
| Greek Mythology Greek Myths, Legends & Gods
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| A fabulous site made for children with
information on Greek Gods, Pandora's Box, Narcissus, Theseus & the
Minotaur, The Labours of Herakles, King Midas, The Trojan Horse, The Story
of the Odyssey, Perseus and Medusa, Orpheus and Eurydice, Daedalus and
Iccarus, Jason and the Golden Fleece |
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http://www.mythweb.com/index.html |
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| Ancient Rome
|
| Oct. '68 Journey Into Golden Greece and Rome
p.550 |
| May '84 The Dead Do Tell Tales at Vesuvius p.
587 |
| June '88 Etruscans |
| July '97 The Power and the Glory of the
Roman Empire |
| Aug. '97 Roman Legacy p.54 |
| Apr. '98 Roman Shipwrecks p.32 |
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| Mediterranean / Middle East
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| Oct. '68 |
| June '72 Aphrodesias - Awakened City of Ancient
Art p.766 |
| Dec. 83 Empire - Rome of the East p. 709
(Byzantine), Gifts of Golden Byzantium p.722 |
| Feb. '87 Herod the Great's City on the Sea p.
261 (Judaea) |
| June '88 The Eternal Etruscans p. 696 |
| July '88 The Day the World Ended at Kourion -
Reconstructing an Ancient Earthquake p.30 (Kurian, Cyprus) |
| May '91 Mesopotania |
| Jan. '01 Ancient Ashkelon p. 66 |
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| Egypt
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| Ottoman Empire |
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Nov. '87 Suleyman the Magnificant p. 552
(Ottoman Empire) |
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July '00 Wrath of the Gods - Catastrophe Haunts
A Cradle of Civilization p.32 (Turkey) |
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| Persian Empire |
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| Phoenicians |
| Aug. 74 The Phoenicians - Sea Lords of
Antiquity p. 149 |
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India |
| Apr. '85 When the Moguls Ruled p. 463 |
| June '00 Indus - Clues to an Ancient
Civilization p. 108 |
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| Ancient
Japan |
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| China
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Asia |
| Feb. '77 |
| May '82 Khmer |
| Sept. '96 Scythians p. 54 (Black Sea) |
| Dec. '96 Genghis Khan p. 2 |
| Feb. '97 The Great Khans p.2 |
Viet Nam
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Mayan Civilization |
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Aztec |
| Oct. '68 |
| Nov. '93 Olmec |
| Dec. '95 |
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Incas, Moche |
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Ancient Americans |
| Apr. '96 The Anasazi p. 86 (Pueblo Indians) |
| Oct. '97 Ancient Americans p. p.92 |
| Dec. '00 Hunt for the First Americans (The
Dawn of Humans) p.40 |
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| Dawn of
Humans |
| Nov. 85 In Search of Our Ancestors p. 560 |
| Oct. '88 The Peopling of the Earth p.434
In Search of Modern Humans p.438 |
| Sept. '95 The Dawn of Humans p.38 |
| Jan. '96 Neandertals p.2 |
| Mar. '96 The Dawn of Humans p.96 |
| Feb. '97 The Dawn of Humans p.72 |
| May '97 The Dawn of Humans p.84 |
| Sept. '97 The Dawn of Humans p.92 |
| Aug. '98 Dawn of Humans p.90 |
| May '00 Dawn of Humans p.76 |
| July '00 Wrath of the Gods - Catastrophe
Haunts A Cradle of Civilization p.32 (Turkey) |
| Dec. '00
Dawn of Humans p.90, Hunt for the First Americans
(The Dawn of Humans) p.40 |
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