Toolbook Set: World History - Ancient Civilizations Set - Performance Education

Toolbook Set: World History - Ancient Civilizations Set
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Toolbook Set: World History - Ancient Civilizations Set

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Students will love your class.

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Purchase the Ancient Civilization Toolbook Set now, and the majority of your planning for the coming fall will be complete.

Each Toolbook includes: Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class! Lectures with graphic organizers, thinksheets and games galore!

Ancient Civilizations Teacher Toolbook Set Includes:

The Stone Age

Out of Africa: Archaeologists, tracing DNA, migration to Central Asia.
The Paleolithic era: What was life like during the Stone Age? Hunter-gatherer societies – the development of tools and the use of fire.
The Agricultural Revolution: Where the earliest settlements arose – and why. How people adapted to the environment. Climate change. The domestication of plants and animals. The rise of farming villages.
The world’s first civilizations: What did they have in common? Easy climate, good soil, rivers for irrigation. They were river cities.
Time line for six civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, and Rome. Which civilizations existed at the same time? Compare and contrast all six.

Test: 53 questions

Mesopotamia
Games: The five themes of geography. Photos: If you lived along the Tigris and Euphrates, what would change in your daily life? What was it like to be a farmer in the Fertile Crescent? Charts: What’s the weather like in the desert? Inventions & innovations. Strengths & weaknesses. How was Mesopotamia connected to the rest of the world?

Birthplace of the world’s first cities
Irrigation - produced a surplus of food
The ziggurat - how religion shaped the culture
Hammurabi’s Code - the world’s first system of laws
Cuneiform – the world’s first system of writing
Compare & Contrast: Mesopotamia and Egypt

Test: 84 questions.

Ancient Egypt
Photos: If you lived in ancient Egypt, what would change in your daily life? What was it like to be a farmer along the Nile? Charts: What’s the weather like in Memphis? Inventions & innovations. Strengths & weaknesses.

Gift of the Nile
Irrigation produced a surplus of food
Religion shaped the culture
Hieroglyphs and the Rosetta Stone
The Pyramids & Sphinx
Trade along the Nile and the Mediterranean
Queen Hatshepsut and Ramses the Great
The Kingdom of Kush

Test: 104 questions.

The Ancient Hebrews

Monotheism - moral laws for humanity
Central beliefs of Judaism
Abraham, Moses, and the development of Judaism
The Exodus
Destruction of the Temple & the Diaspora

Test: 92 questions.

Ancient Greece
Religion: Greek mythology – how it shapes our language and literature. Pericles’ Funeral Oration. Write a persuasive essay: “I am Alexander the Great. . .” Board game: History of Ancient Greece. Projects: students teach the class. Heavy on terms: “The ABC's of ancient Greece” (recall terms). “Can you speak Greek?” (define terms). Test: 201 questions.

Rise of city-states on the Aegean Sea
Forms of government – tyranny, oligarchy, democracy, dictatorship
Direct democracy vs. representative democracy
Greek mythology, Iliad and Odyssey, Aesop’s Fables
The Persian Empire
The Peloponnesian Wars: Athens v. Sparta
Alexander the Great
The great thinkers of Greece

Ancient India
What was it like to live in the Indus River Valley? Charts: What’s the weather like in Harappa? Inventions & innovations. Strengths & weaknesses. How was ancient India connected to the rest of the world? Using the five senses, what can you remember about ancient India? Field trip to an Indian restaurant (unpack the menu). Literature: The Rig Veda, the Ramayana, and Mahabharata. Write a persuasive essay: “I am Asoka . . .”

Rise of the Harappan Civilization
Aryan invasions
The religion of Hinduism
Caste System
Buddha & Buddhism
The Mauryan Empire & Asoka
Intellectual achievements in literature, medicine, metallurgy, and mathematics

Test: 185 questions.

Ancient China
Mapping: The Huang He Valley. Games: The five themes of geography. Natural disasters. Interpret photos of ancient China. If you lived in ancient China, what would change in your daily life? What was it like to live in the Huang He Valley? Charts: What’s the weather like in North China? Inventions & innovations. Strengths & weaknesses. How was ancient China connected to the rest of the world? Using the five senses, what can you remember about ancient China? Six Cinderellas. What if your school were run by Confucius? Write a persuasive essay: “I am Confucius . . .”

The Huang He Valley
Geographic isolation
Confucius & Confucianism. Legalism & Taoism
The Warring States
The first Emperor, Shi Huangdi, and the Great Wall
The Han dynasty
The Silk Road
Buddhism spreads to China

Test: 185 questions.

Ancient Rome
Mapping: The Roman World. Games: The five themes of geography. Interpret photos of ancient Rome: the Forum, Colosseum. If you lived in ancient Rome, what would change in your daily life? What was it like to live in the city of Rome? Charts: What’s the weather like in Italy? Inventions & innovations. Strengths & weaknesses. How was ancient Rome connected to the rest of the world? Using the five senses, what can you remember about ancient Rome? Write a persuasive essay: “I am Julius Caesar . . .” Field trip to an Italian restaurant (unpack the menu). Heavy on terms: “The ABC's of ancient Rome” (recall terms). “Can you speak Latin?” (define terms). Test: 213 questions.

The Roman Republic
Government: Checks & Balances
The Roman Empire
Julius Caesar & Augustus
The Romans & the Jews
Rise of Christianity
Spread of Christianity in Europe
The Roman legacy

Regularly priced, these Teacher Toolbooks total over $180!

Part No.	Title
BZ-4750	The Stone Age
BZ-4751	Ancient Mesopotamia - Sample
BZ-4752	Ancient Egypt and Kush - Sample
BZ-4753	The Ancient Hebrews - Sample
BZ-4772	Ancient Greece - Sample
BZ-4773	Ancient India - Sample
BZ-4321	Ancient China
BZ-4473	Ancient Rome - Sample