Additional Activities
  • Read and discuss the teacher-selected nonfiction books on ancient Rome.

  • Role-play activities for each kind of the following forms of government: Kings, direct democracy, and representative democracy.

  • Make models of the Colosseum and/or aqueducts from clay, paper maché, or cardboard.

  • On a chart, compare and contrast physical and human characteristics of ancient Greece and Rome.

  • Discuss the importance of the locations of these ancient places along the Mediterranean Sea.

  • Write postcards or travel brochures about what it was like growing up in ancient Rome.

  • Provide students with a Venn Diagram using three interlocking circles to show similarities in professions between ancient Greece and Rome. Have students use pictures to represent each occupation.

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