Updating Old Questions: A Congress At School? Let's go beyond listing Congress' powers and consider fairness if a school had a legislative branch.
Create A Civilization: The River Most humans want to live near fresh water, which means that most civilizations settled near a river! Let's add a river to your students' civilizations.
Create Your Own Civilization Project Each year, my students created their own civilization to mirror what we were learning about Rome, China, India, and beyond.
Create A Civilization: The Flag Let's design a flag for your students' civilizations. But let's do it right! We'll dig into the language of vexillology, analyze real flags, form some opinions, and only then create our own flag.
Coats of Arms, Seals, and Other Heraldry Symbolic seals, crests, and coats of arms are a common concept across cultures. From the simplicity of Japanese mon to the regality of English coats of arms all the way to America’s Great Seal, humans around the world create graphical representations of themselves.
