History: Pompeii and Herculaneum Collection of 54 Resources

This resource is a collection of items for those teaching Ancient History: Pompeii and Herculaneum. 54 Items in total: a mix of PowerPoints, summary notes and activities, quizzes, assessment questions, homework tasks etc. Items include:
• A brief history of excavations – handout
• Available Written Sources and their limitations and strengths - PPT
• Baths - handout
• Cause of death - handout
• Cities of Vesuvius and Herculaneum detailed notes
• Evidence for the economy - handout
• Evidence for the eruption –handout
• Food and dining – handout
• Geographical context – PPT
• Geographical context – handout
• Graffiti and inscriptions – handout
• Homework questions
• House of the Faun – PPT
• Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum – PPT
• Key terms – activity
• Leisure activities and games – handout
• Lifestyle, Health and water - PPT
• Local political life – activity
• Materials for construction in Pompeii and Herculaneum – PPT
• Nature of sources and evidence – handout
• Plan – map handout
• Plans and streetscapes
• Political structure - Pompeii – handout
• Pompeii - a town destroyed by Vesuvius – PPT
• Pompeii and Herculaneum – PPT
• Pompeii and Herculaneum – PPT
• Pompeii and Herculaneum Sources – PPT
• Pompeii and Herculaneum – The economy - PPT
• Public buildings – PPT
• Public buildings – handout
• Public spaces in Herculaneum – activity
• Public spaces in Herculaneum – PPT
• Public spaces in Herculaneum – map
• Questions for group presentations – assessment
• Quiz – Brief historical overview
• Range of sources – group activity
• Religion in Pompeii and Herculaneum – handout
• Religion in Pompeii and Herculaneum - practice questions
• Research task
• Revision notes
• Roman social structure – PPT
• Sample test question
• Social structure – worksheet
• Social structure, economy and politics – questions
• Social structure – handout
• Social structure - PPT
• Source grid – activity
• Stages of occupation – handout
• The Amphitheatre - worksheet
• The Baths in Pompeii and Herculaneum –worksheet
• The eruption of Vesuvius – PPT
• The nature of sources and evidence – PPT
• Tombs - PPT
• Water supply and sanitation - handout