Project Overview
This project requires students to assume the role of a historian and complete an in-depth investigation of Ancient Rome. They need to step back in time to discover what life was like in ancient Rome and explore the links between our modern world and the ancient Roman world to teach their peers about a specific area of ancient Roman life. Many aspects of our life today can be directly linked to ancient Roman times. For example: many of the names of the months in the year and the planets in the solar system.
Project Title: Ancient Rome
This project will enable students to put their learning about Ancient Roman life into practical action. In groups they will research information to construct a PowerPoint presentation with quiz questions to teach their peers about a specific aspect of Ancient Roman life. Example aspects may include: sport & entertainment (The Colosseum), engineering (aqueducts), architecture (Roman buildings), culture & art (statues), gods & goddesses.
At the end of the project each group will deliver their PowerPoint presentation on the Smartboard to the whole class and their students (fellow classmates) will complete the quiz questions they create to check their understanding of the topic they presented.
Australian Curriculum
ACDSEH039 - The significant beliefs, values, practices of the ancient Romans, with a particular emphasis on one of the following areas: Everyday life, death and funerary customs.
Project Plan
Project Title: Ancient Rome
This project will enable students to put their learning about Ancient Roman life into practical action. In groups they will research information to construct a PowerPoint presentation with quiz questions to teach their peers about a specific aspect of Ancient Roman life. Example aspects may include: sport & entertainment (The Colosseum), engineering (aqueducts), architecture (Roman buildings), culture & art (statues), gods & goddesses.
At the end of the project each group will deliver their PowerPoint presentation on the Smartboard to the whole class and their students (fellow classmates) will complete the quiz questions they create to check their understanding of the topic they presented.
Australian Curriculum
ACDSEH039 - The significant beliefs, values, practices of the ancient Romans, with a particular emphasis on one of the following areas: Everyday life, death and funerary customs.
Project Plan
Lesson schedule
History - 2 lessons per week over 3 weeks = 6 lessons
Lesson 1 – Task explained, group allocation, determine research focus questions, brainstorm plan questions
Lesson 2 & 3 – Research information from focus questions (Books & Internet)
Lesson 4 & 5 - PowerPoint presentation and quiz questions
Lesson 6 – Presentations (in class to fellow students) on Smartboard
Lesson management
The following items need to be organised/booked before each of the indicated lessons
Lesson 1 - borrow Ancient Rome books from library & photocopy student handouts 1/ Task instructions & 2/ scaffold worksheet
Lesson 2 & 3 - collect Ancient Rome books, schedule library session, book computer lab - for internet searches
Lesson 4 & 5 - students use 4 computers in classroom
Lesson 6 - Ensure students have saved presentations to a shared folder, Dropbox, or Evernote or on a USB key
Extension activity
For early finishers. PowerPoint - add hyperlinks to the quiz questions to indicate if the answer selected was right or wrong (Tutorial provided on Teacher Info page).
Assessment
The final PowerPoint presentations students create will be assessed using a marking rubric.
History - 2 lessons per week over 3 weeks = 6 lessons
Lesson 1 – Task explained, group allocation, determine research focus questions, brainstorm plan questions
Lesson 2 & 3 – Research information from focus questions (Books & Internet)
Lesson 4 & 5 - PowerPoint presentation and quiz questions
Lesson 6 – Presentations (in class to fellow students) on Smartboard
Lesson management
The following items need to be organised/booked before each of the indicated lessons
Lesson 1 - borrow Ancient Rome books from library & photocopy student handouts 1/ Task instructions & 2/ scaffold worksheet
Lesson 2 & 3 - collect Ancient Rome books, schedule library session, book computer lab - for internet searches
Lesson 4 & 5 - students use 4 computers in classroom
Lesson 6 - Ensure students have saved presentations to a shared folder, Dropbox, or Evernote or on a USB key
Extension activity
For early finishers. PowerPoint - add hyperlinks to the quiz questions to indicate if the answer selected was right or wrong (Tutorial provided on Teacher Info page).
Assessment
The final PowerPoint presentations students create will be assessed using a marking rubric.