Build Rome in a Day

PREPARATION

 

Download and read the Student Assignment Packet and the Teacher's Guide carefully.

 

Organizing the "Small Blueprint and Information Cards"

 

• Print the "Small Blueprint and Information Cards," which can be found in the Teacher's Guide.

• Cut out the cards for the monuments you plan to assign to your students. 

• Sort the cards into small, medium and large buildings.  Note that on the cards each monument is labeled (S), (M), or (L).

• Place the cards into separate envelopes, labeled "Small," "Medium," and "Large."

 

Printing and photocopying

 

• Make enough copies of the Student Assignment Packet for each student in the class.  Before you photocopy the packets, fill in the deadlines on the first page and on the "Parent Signature Form," which is the last page.

• Print a copy of the "Monuments Assignment Chart," which can be found in the Teacher's Guide.  This chart keeps track of which students are assigned to which buildings.

• (Optional) It is helpful to print an extra copy of the set of "Small Blueprint and Information Cards."

 

Acquiring paper for blueprints

 

• Assemble a stock of paper of varying sizes to give the students for their blueprints.  Bulletin board paper or butcher paper works well for the larger monuments.

• The size of the paper needed for each blueprint is noted on the "Small Blueprint and Information Card" for each monument.

• The enlarged blueprints for the smallest buildings can easily be drawn on an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of paper, but the largest one, the Circus Maximus, requires a piece of paper 6-1/2 feet long.