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The Romans

The Romans is a fantastic topic to explore with your class. With everything from gladiators and aqueducts to emperors and goddesses, this cross-curricular Romans topic provides exciting, stimulating and informative lessons across a range of subject areas that are sure to capture your class' imagination.

Designed for Year 3/4 but easily adaptable to other ages, these Romans lessons provide everything you need to teach this topic in a creative and inspiring way, including lesson plans, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and a whole host of other resources.

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For further History lessons check out our 'Invaders and Settlers: A Roman Case Study' module in the History section.

Cross-Curricular Topics
Lesson Units: 18
Year 3,4
Key Stage 2
   

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Romans: The Complete Series The complete 'Romans' set of lessons includes all the History, Geography, ICT, Art, DT and PE lessons including: Romulus and Remus; Structure and Society; Daily Life; Extraordinary Entertainment; Great Gods; Where is Rome?; Roman Holiday; Britain vs Italy; Daily Databases; Spreadsheets and Graphs; It's a Myth; Mosaics; Mythical Paintings; Arty Artefacts; Personal Purses; Scutum Shields; Harpastum; and Campus Training. £42.50 Add

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Art

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Romans: Mosaics 12 Introduce your class to Roman mosaics as they find out what they are, how they were made and study examples from the Roman period before thinking about how they can design and create their own mosaic using whichever method most suits the needs of your class. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, Mosiac Pattern sheets, two sets of Picture Cards and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Romans: Mythical Paintings 13 Roman myths have been the subject of paintings for hundreds of years. This lesson allows your class to study portrayals of popular Roman myths, looking at style, symbols and similarities, before creating their own painting to show a scene from Roman mythology. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, worksheets, picture cards and a Roman Gods and Goddesses sheet. £2.99 Add
Romans: Arty Artefacts 14 This lesson gives your class the chance to study a variety of artefacts from the Roman period, such as coins, vases and weapons, before choosing one to recreate using clay. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and picture cards. £2.99 Add

Design & Technology

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Romans: Personal Purses 15 This lesson gives your class the opportunity to work with fabric as they design, create and evaluate their own Roman drawstring purses, putting their own individual twist on these simple money containers. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides with step-by-step photographs and instructions and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Romans: Scutum Shields 16 Study some examples of Roman shields (called scutum), looking at size, patterns and colours, before encouraging your class to think about how they could design, make and evaluate their own Romabn shields. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add

Geography

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Romans: Where is Rome? 6 Map skills at the ready in this lesson as your class learn to identify Italy, Rome and other major Italian cities on the map, before exploring the features of Italy such as climate, population, landscape, mountains and rivers. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and domino cards. £2.99 Add
Romans: Roman Holiday 7 What would you do if you went on holiday to Rome? This lesson introduces those who have never visited the city to the major tourist destinations and archaeological sites of Rome and gets your class thinking about how the remains of the ancient Roman civilisation impacts the city today. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, worksheets, Roman Tourist cards and Travel Brochure sheets. £2.99 Add
Romans: Britain vs Italy 8 This lesson looks at the geographical similarities and differences between Italy and Britain in terms of climate, landscape and culture, and explores what a Roman soldier settling in Britain after the invasion of AD 43 would have found strange about 'Britannia'. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add

History

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Romans: Romulus and Remus 1 This first History lesson introduces your class to the legend of Romulus and Remus and how Rome was formed before looking at how it developed from a small city to a global empire. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and a Roman Empire map. £2.99 Add
Romans: Structure and Society 2 This lesson explains how Rome went from monarchy to republic to empire and gives your class an overview of how each was run, as well as looking at the social and political position of different groups of people in Rome, such as consuls, senators, patricians, plebeians, slaves and women. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, an information sheet and research cards. £2.99 Add
Romans: Daily Life 3 Find out what daily life was like for the people of Rome in this lesson as your class explore areas such as technology, hygiene, food and houses. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, picture cards and research cards. £2.99 Add
Romans: Extraordinary Entertainment 4 This lesson explores what the Romans did for entertainment, looking especially at the role of gladiators in the amphitheatres and why the gruesome gladiator fights were so popular with the Roman people. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and picture cards. £2.99 Add
Romans: Great Gods 5 Delve into the fascinating world of Roman deities and mythology in this lesson as your class discover some of the major gods and goddesses of ancient Rome and how and why they were worshipped by the Romans. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and an information sheet. £2.99 Add

ICT

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Romans: Deity Databases 9 Encourage your class to sort information about Roman gods and goddesses and organise data clearly in this lesson as they learn how to separate data into fields to create databases. And if gods and goddesses aren't your thing, they can create databases about Roman emperors instead. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and data cards. £2.99 Add
Romans: Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs 10 This lesson gives your class the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of the climate and weather in Rome as they create spreadsheets and bar graphs to show information such as average temperature and precipitation for each month of the year. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Romans: It's a Myth 11 This lesson provides you with four different Roman myths to read to your class. Your children can then choose their favourite to create an exciting ICT-based storybook to retell the myth using text and images. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, Roman Myth sheets, Story Outline sheets and Checklist sheets. £2.99 Add

PE

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Romans: Harpastum 17 Romans loved ball games and harpastum was one of them. This lesson introduces your class to this ancient game and gives them the chance to play a more modern (and less violent!) version. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides with rules and instructions, and activity ideas. £2.99 Add
Romans: Campus Training 18 Transport your class back to the Campus of ancient Rome as they find out what physical training was undertaken there before giving them the chance to train as Roman soldiers themselves as they undertake a variety of exercises and challenges. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and challenge cards. £2.99 Add

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