Fieldwork Fun

On Sunday I went to Kristine’s house to prepare for our first fieldwork session that would begin on February 8^th.  Our topic to introduce to the students is the civilization of Ancient Rome.  We were very excited and nervous at the same time.  We had no idea how many students we were about to have and what ages we would be prepping for.  We spent a large amount of time devising our pretest questions to gage what the students already knew and gain an idea of their interests in Ancient Rome.  There were so many amazing topics to introduce to them that we had no idea where to begin.  Culture is such a huge part of Ancient Rome so we decided to come up with an activity to teach the students about it. 

A great way to display culture was through Mosaics.  Ancient Rome was very famous for its beautiful Mosaics.  We decided to have the students recreate their own mosaics during our first fieldwork session with them.  We printed blank sheets of a gladiator, the Roman Coliseum, and Cupid.  We first chose a gladiator because they were a very popular part of Roman culture.  Gladiators were highly admired and watched by all.  Gladiator fights and chariot races took place within the walls of the Coliseum.  We chose Cupid the God of love for the third sheet since we were so close to Valentine’s Day.  We cut up a bunch of colored construction paper into different sized pieces and planned on having the students create their own mosaics.