Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page
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Wonders, Archaeology,
Early Humans, Mesopotamia/Sumer/Babylon,
Ancient
Egypt, Ancient
Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient
China, Ancient India,
Ancient African Kingdoms,
Mysterious Mayas, Incredible Incas,
Awesome Aztecs, Middle Ages, Native
Americans in Olden Times
Mrs. Donn's Special Sections
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Ancient History
Lesson Plans & Information Sections
authored by us
Mr. Donn's Ancient History Lesson Plans & Units
Ancient Greek Olympics Mini-Unit: A Simulation for the Classroom (3-5 days) with city-state backgrounds, and events
Egypt Bingo Test review game
Can you save the Roman Republic? Lesson Plan, Ancient Rome.
Buddhist, Taoist, Confucianist, Legalist; how would each behave when faced with the same problems? Lesson Plan, Ancient China
Debates on Censorship: (2-3 days) Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty, debate set in modern times. Lesson Plan, Ancient China
Lesson Ideas (some ours, some emailed to us) Easy to implement and very creative.
Mrs. Donn's Special Sections
Daily Life in Ancient Ireland, Scotland, Wales (Iron Age Celts)
Deep in the Tombs of Egypt Two of our people have disappeared - Deep in the Tombs of Egypt!
Ancient Roots, Modern Holidays Mini-histories, lesson ideas, activities for the classroom for holidays
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in Word and in PowerPoint format
Free Presentations in PowerPoint format
retold by Lin Donn; illustrated by Phillip Martin
Archaeology for Kids
Early Humans
Rameses II (Egypt)
Hermes & Apollo (Greece)
Nero at the Circus Maximus (Rome)
Nero Goes Insane (Rome)
Ancient Chinese Dragons (China)
Warrior Well (China/Mongolia)
The Story of Mulan (China)
PPT's: Native Americans
The Hero Twins (Mayas)
The Invisible Warrior (Woodland Indians, A Cinderella Story)
Wise Owl (Northeast Woodland Indians, an Iroquois Myth)
Clever Coyote (Plains Indians, a Buffalo Story)
Child of Water & Little Blue Rock (Southwest Indians, An Apache Myth)
How Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch (NW Pacific Coastal Indians)
PPT's: Holidays
Kwanzaa (African American)
Groundhog Day (American)
PPTs: Aesop's Fables
Aesop and His Fables
The Fox and the Crow
The Fox and Sick Lion
PPT's: 7Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Wonders (Index)
Great Pyramid at Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
PPT's: Others
The San People
Ancient Myths &
Folktales (Word format)
Retold by Lin Donn for use in the classroom as handouts
Anansi
the Spider (Africa, Ghana)
The Lion's Whisker
(Africa, Kush/Nubia)
Place of the
Prickly Pear Cactus (Aztec)
Journey of a Princess (Aztec,
grades 6-12)
Wise
Owl (Iroquois Myth)
How
Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch (Northwest Coastal
Pacific Myth)
Clever
Coyote (Comanche Buffalo Myth)
Child
of Water and Little Blue Rock (Apache Myth)
Theseus and the
Minotaur (Minoan/Greek)
Little Io
(Greek Version)
Legend
of the Trojan Horse (Greek)
The
Cyclops Cave & The Sirens (Greek, from "The
Odyssey" by Homer)
The
Oracle at Delphi (Greek Myth)
Zeus,
Hades, and the King of Corinth (Greek
Myth)
Apollo
and
Cassandra (Greek Myth)
Pandora's
Box (Greek Myth)
Demeter and
Persephone (Greek Myth)
Hercules
(Greek Myth)
Loawnu the Wise
Woman (Xia Times, Ancient China)
Wang the Peddler (Han
Times, Ancient China)
The
Legend of the Shadow Puppet (Han Times, Ancient China)
The
Legend of Gilgamesh (Sumerian)
How Marduk Became the King of ALL the Gods (Babylonian)
Little Io (Roman Version,
which is exactly the same as the Greek version
with Roman god names, because that's how the Romans did things)
The
Legend of Romulus and Remus (Ancient
Rome)
Horatius
at the Bridge (Ancient
Rome)
The Punic Wars
& Hannibal of Carthage (Ancient Rome)
The Warrior
Well (Ancient Mongolia)
The Hero
Twins (Maya)
Happy
Together (Russian Folktale)
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