PBL Social Studies for Google Classroom
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Save 20% with this Google Drive & Google Classroom ancient civilizations bundle, which includes a digital Ancient Greece PBL, digital Ancient Egypt PBL, digital Ancient China PBL, and digital Ancient Rome PBL. These online activities and online resources will give your students a deeper understanding of these four ancient civilizations. They are 100% online and can be used on Google Classroom and Google Drive.
These PBLS are a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a research and making real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing.
These PBLs are self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability to work at their own pace and go as deep as they would like to with their learning.
This bundle includes the following PBLs:
1. Ancient Chinese Newspaper PBL
3. Ancient Greece Time Travel Agency PBL
Ancient China PBL which includes:
♥ Use Ancient Chinese characters to write a title and logo for your newspaper
♥ Find a location in China to build your newspaper factory
♥ Create a weather report by researching the weather in China
♥ Write an article on the benefits or terracing
♥ Create a model of terracing farming
♥ Design a comic strip centered around the Terracotta Army
♥ Write an editorial article on the pros and cons of the Great Wall of China
♥ Write advice to readers from the perspective of Confucius
♥ Create advertisements for popular Ancient China inventions
♥ Combine the previous activities to create a newspaper (cumulative end goal)
♥ Teacher instructions
♥ Peer rubric/self rubric/teacher rubric
Ancient Egypt PBL which includes:
♥ Find a location in Egypt to build your museum
♥ Design a museum name and logo with hieroglyphics
♥ Hire Ancient Egyptian gods/goddesses to work as a museum guide
♥ Create a museum cafe menu using authentic Ancient Egyptian foods (comes with reading passage)
♥ Pick four Ancient Egyptian inventions to showcase in the invention exhibit
♥ Research the Nile River to showcase the benefits in the Nile River exhibit (comes with reading passage)
♥ Research the steps to mummification to explain to the museum guides (comes with reading passage)
♥ Design a map of the museum
♥ Calculate total daily and yearly upkeep for the museum
♥ Create a magazine advertisement to market the museum
♥ Create a commercial to convince potential guests to visit the museum (cumulative project)
♥ Teacher instructions
♥ Peer rubric/self rubric/teacher rubric
Ancient Greece PBL which includes
♥ Create a travel agency and logo
♥ Map out a trip to city-states
♥ Create an itinerary at the city-states
♥ Research Greek architecture (columns)
♥ Create blueprints for a Greek hotel
♥ Build a real-life model of a Greek hotel
♥ Research a Greek god and/or goddess to use as a tour guide
♥ Research Ancient Greek foods to create a restaurant menu
♥ Calculate upkeep for your travel agency
♥ Calculate what to charge guests to make a profit
♥ Create a magazine ad to advertise the agency
♥ Create a sales pitch to sell the trip to a potential client (cumulative project)
♥ Teacher instructions
♥ Peer rubric/self rubric/teacher rubric
Ancient Rome PBL which includes
♥ Create a product needed by Ancient Romans
♥ Find a location around the Mediterranean Sea to conduct trade with
♥ Find a location on one of the Seven Hills of Rome to build your store
♥ Brainstorm an enticing store name and logo
♥ Find examples of other Ancient Roman buildings.
♥ Design the store building using Ancient Roman architectural designs.
♥ Create a mosaic for the floor of the store.
♥ Hire Roman gods/goddesses to work in the store
♥ Create a verbal advertisement to draw in potential customers at the Roman Forum (cumulative project)
♥ Teacher instructions
♥ Peer rubric/self rubric/teacher rubric
Each PBL also includes 11 teacher guide pages
♥ Final project expectations
♥ Ideas to make the cumulative project even more engaging
♥ What do students learn in each activity?
♥ Timing for activities & PBL
♥ Creating an exiting introduction to hook the students
♥ Teacher how-to on each activity with ideas for enrichment & extra help
♥ Common Core Standards
Please email me with any questions at Glitterinthird@gmail.com if you need more information!
