Teachers.netExplore Rome
Explore Ancient Rome! investigates the fascinating civilization of ancient Rome through 25 hands-on projects and activities for young readers ages 6–9. Kids learn about ancient Roman homes, food, playtime, clothing, conquests, gods, entertainment, and more. Projects are easy-to-follow and require primarily common household products and very little adult supervision. Activities range from creating an amphora and making a tunic to baking bread and hosting a Roman feast. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Ancient Rome! and develop an understanding of how this ancient civilization laid the foundation of our modern world.
Explore Ancient Rome! By Carmella Van Vleet offers a variety of projects, accompanied by explanatory history text, designed to stimulate readers’ interest in this ancient culture. Among them are making an aqueduct, designing a villa, creating an oscillum and designing a theater mask."—DIG Magazine January 09
Books and Periodicals
Bramblett, Reid, and Jeffrey Kennedy. Top 10 Rome. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002.
Chrisp, Peter. Make It Work! The Roman Empire. Chicago: World Book, Inc., and Two-Can Publishing, 1998. Connolly, Peter, and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome. Oxford: Oxford Press, 1998.
Dickinson, Rachel. Tools of the Ancient Romans. White River Junction, VT: Nomad Press, 2006.
James, Simon. Eyewitness Ancient Rome. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2004.
Macdonald, Fiona. 100 Things You Should Know About Ancient Rome. Great Bardfield, England: Miles Kelly Publishing, 2003.
Macdonald, Fiona. I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas and Other Questions About Ancient Rome. New York: Kingfisher, 1997.
Nelson, Eric. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire. New York: Alpha, 2002.
Staccioli, R.A. Rome Monuments: Past and Present. Arcole, Italy: Vision S.R.L., 2001.
Steele, Philip. History in Stone: Ancient Rome. San Diego: Silver Dolphin, 2001.
Documentaries
Rome: Engineering an Empire. Discovery History Channel, 2007.
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome. Films Media Group, 2004.
"Episode 3: Hannibal and the Colosseum." Drive Through History: Rome. Coldwater Media, 2005.
More Cool Books to Read
Altman, Susan, and Susan Lechner. Ancient Rome (Modern Rhymes about Ancient Times). Danbury, CT: Children's Press, 2002.
Ancient Rome (DK Revealed). New York: DK Publishing, 2003.
Carlson, Lauri. Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1998.
If I Were a Kid in Ancient Rome. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, 2007.
Malam, John, and David Salariya. You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Gladiator! London: Franklin Watts, 2001.
Osborne, Mary Pope, and Natalie Pope Boyce. Ancient Rome and Pompeii (Magic Tree House Research Guides). New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2006.
Web Sites
The Romans
Secrets of Lost Empires
Who Were the Romans?"
The Roman Empire in the 1st Century
Ancient Rome
Fun Museums with Ancient Rome Collections
The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angles, California)
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Atlanta, Georgia)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri)
University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Alex Kim is a Cartoonist and Illustrator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He earned an MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and a B. Arch from The Cooper Union in New York, NY.
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