Geography and Ancient History Software Programs - Middle School

Hi,
I am looking for software or tutorial to use to teach Geography and Ancient History at the middle school level. Students are stuggling with the concepts and the teachers are looking for different ways to approach them.

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Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on December 9, 2008 at 9:37pm

Well, Google Earth is a great tool for Geography and even History.

Click on the 'Gallery' under 'layers' in the sidebar and you can get an overlay for ancient Rome in 3D created by the University of Virginia. You can see all of the ancient buildings accurately recreated. It is an awesome use for teh platform and I can only see more of this sort of thing being created in the future.

You could even get your students to draw historical borders on the Earth using the drawing tools.

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Permalink Reply by greg on December 10, 2008 at 4:39am

Hi Colleen,
I have a few links on my homework help page that my students like to play:
http://schools.u-46.org/index.pl?id=6487

Scroll down and you will see them in the green table.
Greg

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Permalink Reply by Todd Bryant on December 10, 2008 at 7:42am

Have you considered any games? Civilization IV (various scenarios), Rome, Caesar, Alexander, etc. You can look up each game in Wikipedia to get an idea of what it's about. Keep in mind, several of these games have Mods that attempt to make them more historically accurate. Others have students play the game then discuss where the scenarios presented differed from reality.

If you're interested, I posted an essay about getting started with some of these games, Academic Commons Essay

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Permalink Reply by Kevin W on December 10, 2008 at 11:11am

All you have to do is get your students to memorize this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0y8jkfXoX8 and they will have no problems with Geography for the rest of their lives. :)