Embedded Files
use these links to help expand your knowledge of what we study in social studies class:
use these links to help expand your knowledge of what we study in social studies class:
EARLY HUMANS:
This is a fun game to help you practice identifying the locations of the continents and oceans. Good practice for your Prehistory/Early Humans Unit Test!
More practice for your Prehistory Test
This song will get stuck in your head!
Do YOU know where all the countries of the world are located? Use this game to test your geographical knowledge!
How do timelines work? Watch this video to help you!
Documentary: Illustrates the transition from hunting/gathering, to farming and, eventually, the first villages. Explains how Mesopotamia came to be considered the first "civilization".
MESOPOTAMIA:
The Lego Video! Part I
Second Half of the Lego Video
The cuneiform video from class!
Check out the typical day of a powerful person in Mesopotamia
Podcast from Class
Second Podcast from Class
ANCIENT EGYPT:
Use this link to help you with your D.B.Q. Essay!
A brief (and FUNNY) video about mummification
Theories about the building of the pyramids of Giza - The LAST remaining of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World!
The documentary we studied in class. Re-watch the mummification!
How did scholars translate the hieroglyphs and demotic on The Rosetta Stone? Watch this documentary to learn how they did it!
ANCIENT INDIA:
Interact with all four learner guides.
This is a great (quick) review of Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa
ANCIENT GREECE:
Watch the video and decide!
ANCIENT ROME:
JUST HOW RICH ARE YOU?!:
Use this link to calculate how you "rank" in wealth compared to the rest of the world... we're all VERY fortunate!
What's it like living at or below the poverty line? Watch this video.
Play "Spent" to see if you can survive for one month on minimum wage... good luck!
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