Unit Plan

Blast from the Past Travel Guides

By  Emy Lopez
  • Grades: 6–8

Overview

Students will cover important aspects of Ancient Rome and will conduct research using their social studies textbook and the Internet as their main resources. Through the process of creating brochures, students will demonstrate critical thinking and analytic skills as well as an understanding for the subject matter. Remember, this unit plan can be adapted to the study of any ancient civilization!

Objective

Students will:

  1. Create travel brochures. I call this our "Ancient Rome Itinerary."
  2. Provide historical evidence to reflect our studies within their travel brochure.

Lesson Plans for this Unit

Culminating Activity

Our class will tour Ancient Rome and every student will have a chance to "guide" the class to an important destination or conduct a class presentation on the topic of his or her travel brochure.

Supporting Books

Books for Teaching Ancient Civilizations

  • Subjects:
    Main Idea and Details, Content Area Reading, Summarizing, Public Speaking, Research Skills, Expository Writing, Creativity and Imagination, Ancient Civilizations, Class Projects, Visual Arts, Communication and the Internet, Computers
  • Skills:
    Main Idea and Details, Theme, Online Sources, Reference Sources, Social Studies, Public Speaking, Expository Writing
  • Duration:
    2 Weeks
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