Team Project – Rough Sketch-up
Theme: Time Travelers
Idea: Students can send one object back in time to a now gone civilization. The object should be something that could have helped the civilization prosper or survive.
Humanities
Component: 1. Identify Pillars of Civilization: religion, gov’t, art/architecture, etc.
2. Research paper
Mysics
Component: 1. Linear Equations (distribution/effect)
2. Accurate Drafting
3. Ratios and Proportions
4. Projectile motion/Trigonometry (optional)
5. Forces and motion
Possible
Civilizations: 1. Sparta: better sailboats
2. Aztec:
3. Athens: sewage system
4. Crete: retaining wall, drainage system
5. Rome
6. Babylonia: how to make iron weapons
7. Kush: dam & locks
8. Hindus Valley: dikes and levees
9. Maya
10. Inca
12. Anasazi/Ancient Pueblo Peoples: irrigation/water catchment
13. Easter Island (Rapanui)
14. Hebrews
15. Assyrian
Resources: Athens: Typhoid Fever http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0227_060227_athens_plague_2.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/sewage.htm
Indus Valley
http://project-history.blogspot.com/2006/11/indus-valley-civilization-resources.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCINDIA/HARAPPA.HTM
Collapse Review