I am curious about how other teachers in this community use the Museum Project to introduce the concept of ancient civilizations. Do you limit the number of civilizations based on the size of your class? Do you choose and list the civilizations you want students to cover? If not all the major ancient civilizations can be included, do you introduce the remaining ones in class? In my case, I offer these options for the Museum Project: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, the Indus River Valley, Ancient China, the Persians and Greeks, Ancient Rome, the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca. What approach do you take? Teresa Cage Todd Nussen Brad Vonck
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How do you use the Museum Project to learn about ancient civilizations?
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We actually modify the Museum project to make it an "autopsy of a civilization" and the students use butcher paper to make a life-size image of an everyday person from that civilization (depending on information available). They fill that butcher paper with all of their research into the different aspects of a civilization and the causes of decline.
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We actually modify the Museum project to make it an "autopsy of a civilization" and the students use butcher paper to make a life-size image of an everyday person from that civilization (depending on information available). They fill that butcher paper with all of their research into the different aspects of a civilization and the causes of decline.
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Brad Vonck I saw some teachers using the autopsy of a civilization, which is another format but very dynamic and visually appealing. Do you have any pictures of your students projects? I used it in AP Human Geography to explain dead languages and it is a very effective pedagogy.
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Also a great project Brad Vonck but we do it in the next Origins unit, Unit 5. So all in all I do Museum for Early Civs --> Frankenstein for Empires --> Autopsy