chepyl Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Next year I will have a 5th an a 2nd grader. They have been doing modern history together this year. I want to keep them somewhat together next year. We will start SOTW over with my 2nd grader. My 5th grader will use the kingfisher and Usborne history encyclopedias as guides for a timeline, but the bulk of his history will be from living books I have collected from library book sales. I plan to have him do a history timeline notebook. What I need are fun project ideas to do together. What are your favorite history projects that would benefit a 5th grader and be fun for a 2nd grader? I have a chicken mummy on the list already. :) We will be on ancients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 DD liked making the water dipper (ancient Egypt - I forget what it's called) out of tinker toys, and making mosaics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduemeche Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Mosaics are great. Lego ziggurats and pyramids. Wearing bedsheet togas. Making Greek food. Finding an Ethiopian restaurant (the food is very similar to Egyptian and Near Eastern food of the day). Seder meal. Blue body paint and making cardboard weapons to be Celtic warriors. Salt dough maps - your 5th grade should paint them and make toothpick and label flags for important places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 We liked the Roman baths!! Oil, scrapers, tubs or baby pools with cold, tepid and warm water. Yes on building a shaduf (water bucket lifter), anything with food, Greek/ Roman clothes. We also liked building the model of a Roman road with all the layers and making chariots out of dishwasher or stove boxes. Watch Ben Hur! My kids will be the same grades as yours and we are looking forward to Ancients again! Ds doesn't remember doing some of our fun stuff last time. He still took naps then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Those are all awesome ideas!! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragons in the flower bed Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Here's my list for Greece, which we're doing right now. These are meant to absorb the kids' attention for a whole day at least. Week 1: Make a salt-dough map of Greece. Discuss the making of realistic fantasy maps. Let kids design their own world. Week 2: Make a life-size Trojan horse. Discuss principles of large scale sculpture, creating frames, layering skins on. Week 3: Make wings and togas. Learn to use the sewing machine, follow a pattern. Week 4: Make duct tape weaponry and armor in Greek style. Week 5: Make papermache masks showing many emotions, put on a play. We had a good time when I flipped the dining room table on its side, threw a blanket over it, taped posterboard to the underside, and had the kids pretend to be Egyptian tomb painters, painting on the dark interior walls of the pyramids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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