Mr.
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For
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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
Ancient History
Lesson Plans & Information Sections
authored by us
FAQs
Mr.
Donn's Ancient History Lesson Plans
& Units
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Ancient
Mesopotamia Unit
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Early & Classical
Greece Units
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Ancient
Greek Olympics Mini-Unit: A Simulation for the Classroom (3-5 days) with
city-state backgrounds, and events
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Egypt
Bingo Test review game
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Can you
save the Roman Republic? Lesson Plan, Ancient
Rome.
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First Unit
Test: Ancient Rome
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Buddhist, Taoist,
Confucianist, Legalist; how would each behave when faced with the same
problems? Lesson Plan, Ancient China
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Debates on
Censorship: (2-3 days) Qin (Ch'in)
Dynasty, debate set in modern times. Lesson Plan, Ancient China
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Lesson
Ideas (some ours, some emailed to us) Easy to implement and
very creative.
Mrs. Donn's Special Sections
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The Life &
Times of Early Man
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Daily Life
in Ancient Civilizations (Index)
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Daily Life in
Ancient Mesopotamia/Sumer/Babylon/Assyria
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Daily
Life in Ancient Egypt
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Daily Life in Ancient Ireland, Scotland,
Wales (Iron Age Celts)
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Daily Life
in Ancient Greece
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Daily Life
in Ancient Rome
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Daily Life
in Ancient China
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Daily Life
in Ancient India
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Daily Life in Ancient
Mongolia
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Daily Life
in the Middle Ages
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Daily Life in
Medieval Africa - Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Benin
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The Inca Empire (the
Incas)
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The
Maya Empire (The Mayas)
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Native
Americans in Olden Times
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Deep in the Tombs
of Egypt Two of our people have disappeared -
Deep in the Tombs of Egypt!
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The Chinese Calendar
(zodiac)
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The
Three Teachings (Confucianism, Taoism/Daoism, Buddhism)
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Ancient Roots, Modern
Holidays Mini-histories, lesson ideas, activities for
the classroom for holidays
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Ancient Money
- How Money Started
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The
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in Word and in PowerPoint
format
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Free
Presentations in PowerPoint format
retold by Lin Donn; illustrated by Phillip Martin
PPT's: Ancient History
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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