Visiting Ancient Rome...again

Here we are...visiting Ancient Rome again. Cailin's project based learning activity was on the various buildings in a typical Roman town. We created an aqua duct and bath house, Colosseum, temple and theater.

She enjoyed researching what took place in each building. (Since I'm finally writing the post about this two months later, I don't have her notes about them to add--so sad for her future knowledge of family history.)
I do know I had fun staying up late one night, playing with card board, hot glue guns, and paint while we created these miniature replicas

I'm SO cute!!
Delaney and Liam talked about mosaics. An afternoon was spent creating these and Delaney presented to the history group what we learned.

Connor's be intrigued with government lately and he chose to do a compare and contrast of our modern day government to Rome's government.

His ever, clever, witty, self came through with this window--his favorite screen--"This slide is closed for renovation, please continue to the next slide."

I never feel that we've learned all and discovered all about a topic. I wanted to make real mosaics with glass dots and cement for the garden. I wanted to make a real working aqua duct. Plus, there were movies to watch, 'I Spartacus", and others (I'm sure) but we didn't, I guess it'll have to wait till we get back to the ancient history in two or so years. We're moving on to American history this next year( we did medieval history with CC so we're jumping forward to the 1600's)...and I'm getting excited!