Roman Empire

The Roman Empire in the First Century: from the Empires series on PBS

Roman Civilization

BBC Kids - Roman Civilization

Death in Rome: Online adventure - A blood-spattered Roman trader lies dead. You have until dawn to gather the evidence and identify the culprit.

Roman Gladiators

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator! - This Web Book is based on the print publication "You Wouldn't Want To Be A Roman Gladiator!"

Mayan Civilization

Mayan Kids - A kid friendly site that gives students the opportunity to read about the Mayan people, pyramids, and beliefs, or play the Mayan game.

Mundo Maya -From Mundo Maya Magazine, this site has articles about Mayan archaeology, history, nature, daily life, handicrafts, and legends.

Mystery of the Maya - Learn Mayan math and watch slideshows of Mayan architecture, costumes, and sculpture.

Crucible of Civilization

The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization - from the Empires series on PBS
A great interactive site for students to go through on their own and role play as a citizen of ancient Greece.

Ancient Greece

BBC Kids - Ancient Greece
A great website with lots of interactive and colourful activities for students. Broken down into different cities, events and important features of the time. Well organized and easy to use - very kid friendly!
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Build a Pyramid

BBC Pyramid Challenge Game - As an Egyptian vizier, or chief minister, you must undertake the most important project of your career - to build the king's tomb

Ancient Egypt

National Geographic Ancient Egypt: Students can explore photos and video clips of exploration, translate personal message into hieroglyphic postcards and documents to send or print, explore online maps, and great, interesting links.
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Ancient Egypt Webquest

Ancient Egypt Webquest: Elementary students can now enjoy locating information on Ancient Egypt. Learn about Ancient Egyptian daily life, Egyptian mummies, Egyptian games, hieroglyphics, archeology, and King Tut

Museum Resources for Ancient Egypt

Canadian Museum of Civilization - Virtual Tour of King Tut's Tomb
See if you can discover the entrance to his tomb. Venture down the steps and through the corridor leading to the antechamber (you may have to play with the controls in order to get through the small entrance-ways). Explore the different rooms. Examine the wall-paintings in the burial chamber. Can you find Tut's mummy within the nested layers of the royal sarcophagus? If you investigate very carefully, you may even find yourself inside a mouse-hole, looking out into the burial chamber!

Royal Ontario Museum Online Activities: Ancient Egypt
Website includes the activities listed below, detailed articles, annotated links and suggestions for further reading.

Matching Quiz
ROM Online Activities: Test your knowledge of everyday Egyptian objects

Make Your Own Mummy!
ROM Online Activities: Learn how to make your own miniature mummy

Writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphs
ROM Online Activities: Learn how to write with Egyptian Hieroglyphs and use the Interactive translator to write, then print, your name.

VR Tour of the Ancient Egyptian Gallery
ROM Online Activities: Browse through the Late Egypt section of the Ancient Egypt gallery and see a cast of two walls from the New Kingdom mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri in western Thebes.

BBC Ancient History

BBC Ancient History - From the death cults of Egypt to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place.

* Egyptians
* Greeks
* British Prehistory
* Romans
* Vikings
* Anglo-Saxons
* Ancient India
* Other Cultures

Ancient Civilizations for Kids:

Ancient Civilizations for Kids: List of kid friendly links.

Myths and Legends

Myths and Legends: A teacher created list of resource for myths and legends from all types of early and ancient civilizations.

Early Civilizations

Links to Learning - Early Civilizations
These web-based student learning activities are based on the Ontario curriculum and are formatted to be "printer -friendly" so they can be used as recording sheets by students as well as providing direct links to the web pages. Includes activities and resources related to the beliefs and myths of Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and sub-Saharan African cultures. Links to web pages about the social structure of the Inca, Viking, Celtic, Mayan and Egyptian societies.

Empires

A ThinkQuest student project studying ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Why Do Civilizations Fail

Collapse - "Join us as we explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations. You'll learn what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence."

Voyage Back in Time: Ancient Greece and Rome

This web site was designed to introduce students to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.

Students will explain the term civilization and describe the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome in terms of geographic features, government, agriculture, architecture, music, art, religion, sports, and roles of men, women, and children.

Students will gain knowledge in each of the above-mentioned areas by clicking the appropriate links, reading the information, and completing any accompanying activities, as well as searching some of the additional suggested links to other relevant sites.