Romans

Romans

Visit: Ribchester Roman Museum

How to use this page: Click on an area of Romans to reveal links and suggestions for pre and post learning.

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  • Interactive Game
  • Teaching Idea
  • Information
  • Activity
  • Our Suggestion

Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Romans – Gladiators. Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key above. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your Gladiators topic. We welcome your feedback and further suggestions so please use our comments box at the foot of this page.

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/roman_gladiators

Learn about Roman gladiators using this vase.

Make a flip book animation using the images of the gladiators fighting on the vase.

https://www.youwouldntwantto.be/gladiator-web-book/

Interactive web book about the journey from being a slave to becoming a gladiator.

Write a diary entry about being captured as a slave and then becoming a gladiator.

http://www.ngkids.co.uk/history/Max-in-the-Colosseum

Learn about the colosseum and gladiators with Max in this comic

Create your own comic explaining what the colosseum was like

Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Romans – Invasions and Rebellions. Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key on the left. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your Invasions and Rebellions topic. We welcome your feedback and further suggestions so please use our comments box at the foot of this page.

Emperors

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/hadrian_head

use this head of the Emperor Hadrian to find out more about him

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2sm6sg#zpgnfg8

Find out about some of the Emperors of Rome

Who's your favourite Emperor? Present a persuasive argument explaining your reasons why.

Roman Invasion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z9j4kqt

find out about the Roman invasion of Britain

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Roman_invasion.htm/

Information about the Roman invasion of Britain

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Use this website to research Romans in Britain

Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Romans – Roman Forts and the Army. Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key on the left. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your Roman Forts and the Army topic. We welcome your feedback and further suggestions so please use our comments box at the foot of this page.

Roman Army

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/tombstone_of_a_roman_cavalryman

Use this tombstone to find out about the Roman army

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqbnfg8

find out about life in the Roman army

Write a persuasive letter to a centurion asking if you can join the Roman army.

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/games/discover-the-romans/

Find out what Roman soldiers wore using these games

Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Romans – People and Culture. Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key on the left. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your People and Culture topic. We welcome your feedback and further suggestions so please use our comments box at the foot of this page.

People

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/pepper_pot

Find out about wealthy Romans using this pepper pot

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/roman_game_board

Find out about Roman games

Write a set of 'how to' instructions to play a Roman game.

http://www.show.me.uk/editorial/1492-did-the-romans-introduce-rabbits-to-britain

Find out if the Romans introduced rabbits to Britain

http://www.mathematicshed.com/roman-numeral-shed.html

Resources about the Roman numerals

Art

http://www.show.me.uk/editorial/1165-roman-mosaic-mad

Look at Roman mosaics and find out about them

Art

http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/ancient_roman_art.php

Find out about Roman art

Create a fresco on a wall in your classroom.

http://www.rammtimetrail.org.uk/Roman-Mosaic/Games-and-Puzzles/

Game to design a mosaic

Food

http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/index-30-romano-british.html

A selection of Roman food recipes with videos

Make a Roman recipe. How would you make this Roman dish more appealing to people today? To follow up, children write a set of instructions about how they made their Roman recipe.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/past_exhibitions/2013/pompeii_and_herculaneum/bread_recipe.aspx

A file showing how to make 2000 year old bread

Food

http://www.show.me.uk/interactive_video/1219-how-to-cook-like-a-roman

Learn how to cook like Roman watching this video

Here are some extra resources we have found for the topic of Romans – they don’t fit into any of our sub sections so we’ve created this extras section so we don’t miss them out.

http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00002190/science-ideas-web-the-romans

Topic webs for science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwmpfg8/videos/1

Selection of video clips about the Romans

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/browse/curriculum/3/

Find out about the Romans using these objects

http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk/history?T=1912

Selection of classroom resources