BBC ROMAN RESOURCES This is an excellent website for students in Key Stage 2 or Elementary School. There are printable worksheets, a time line, glossary and interactive games. A Walk Through Time gives students the opportunity to explore several different time periods, including Ancient Rome. The Romans in Scotland is another fascinating interactive site.
BEGINNERS’ LATIN An online tutorial for beginners wishing to learn the Latin used in archival documents between 1086 and 1733. During this period of time, all official British documents were written in Latin. There are 12 lessons with interactive quizzes.
CONSTRUCT AN AQUEDUCT From the PBS television show Nova, this game challenges the player to build a working virtual aqueduct.
DEATH IN ROME Be a Roman detective. Use clues to solve the mystery.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL INTERACTIVE BATTLE MAPS What makes an army powerful? More soldiers or better strategy?
DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEACHING TOOLS An entire suite of teacher’s tools including a puzzlemaker, worksheet generator, and quiz center. There’s also a lesson planner for organizing the materials you create. Puzzlemaker options include, but are not limited to, crosswords, fallen phrases, cryptograms, letter tiles, and double puzzles. The Worksheet Generator will create 8 different types of printable activities.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL VIRTUAL COLOSSEUM TOUR An interactive tour of the Roman colosseum.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL POMPEII THE LAST DAY The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is put into historical and scientific context. View a video documentary of Pliny the Younger’s account of the disaster. Examine plate tectonics by building your own virtual active volcano.
ETON COLLEGE GREEK PROJECT Vocabulary, verb, noun and adjective testers requiring Macromedia Flash are available here. Be aware that you cannot bookmark the Greek Project directly. It is necessary to go to Eton College’s website first, then click Eton in Action in the sidebar, then click Greek Project. The link here will get you to Eton College’s main page.
FLASHCARD EXCHANGE This website has a huge collection of Latin language flashcards available for download. A free membership permits you to create and use flashcards. A paid membership allows you to print and download your flashcards into a variety of formats. (There are numerous other subject areas available as well.)
FLASHDASH *NEW* Online Latin flashcards designed for the Latin for Children series published by the Classical Academic Press. Uses a standard vocabulary set that would likely be used by other beginning Latin courses.
LATIN CROSSWORD Another outstanding site by Laura Gibbs which presents crossword puzzles for Latin language learners. The categories include Wheelock’s Latin, Ancient Culture and Proverbs.
LATIN GAMES A few Latin games from KET Distance Learning
LATIN PER LUDOS ILLUSTRATA Thomas McCarthy has printable games for Latin language practice.
LEARNING Bob Patrick’s compilation of games, drills, exercises and quizzes, grouped by textbooks. You’ll find material keyed to Cambridge, Oerberg, and the Oxford Latin courses. There are also activities based upon mythology, the National Latin Exam syllabus, Certamen and more!
MAGNETIC LATIN Simple Latin game based upon magnetic poetry tiles. From Andrew Wilson’s Classics Pages.
MINIMUS GAMES Some games from the Minimus Latin website.
ODYSSEY ONLINE Brought to you by Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum and the University of Rochester, this is an interactive site where learners can explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa and the Ancient Americas.
OLOGY WORLD The official companion site to the Ology series of books, including the recently published Mythology.
OPEN UNIVERSITY’S INTERACTIVE GREEK *NEW* Designed for students who are just beginning their study of Classical Greek. You can review the Greek alphabet, practice recognizing the letters, review the order of the alphabet, form a Greek word and see how sentences work!
OPEN UNIVERSITY’S INTERACTIVE LATIN *NEW* Designed for students who are learning Latin inflections -- noun, verb and adjective endings -- with vocabulary standard in most Latin courses.
OXFORD LATIN DRILLS Drills written by Margaret Phillips to accompany the Oxford Latin Course.
PYRRHA’S CLASSICAL COMPUTER QUIZ An interactive quiz to show what computer science owes to the Classics.
PYRRHA’S HARRY POTTER LATIN QUIZ See how J.K. Rowling incorporates Latin into her book series.
PYRRHA’S CLASSICAL FACE QUIZ See how Latin and Greek roots are used in medical terminology.
QUIA A highly recommended site featuring teacher created activities, games and quizzes as well as grade reporting and organizational tools. Activities can be played without joining, but a subscription is recommended for teachers to fully take advantage of the grade reporting and organization features of Quia.
QUIA SHARED ACTIVITIES LATIN An excellent starting place if you’re searching for Latin games but it is not a complete listing.
QUIA ACTIVITIES by GAIL COOPER A huge collection of activities designed primarily for use with the Ecce Romani course.
QUIA ACTIVITIES by GINNY LINDZEY Activities designed for the Cambridge Latin Course Unit I, Stages 1-11. Lots of links too!
QUIA ACTIVITIES by LAURA GIBBS Quia Activities designed to accompany Wheelock’s Latin.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER HORAN Activities designed to accompany Russell and Keller’s Learn to Read Latin.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER HORAN Activities designed to accompany the Oxford Latin Course.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER HORAN Activities designed to accompany the Cambridge Latin Course.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER HORAN Activities designed to accompany the Ecce Romani Latin Course.
QUIA ACTIVITIES by PAT KESSLER Activities and links designed for the Ecce Romani series as well as Hercules, the Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts and Livy.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY REBECCA BUSH Quia Activities designed primarily for the Latin for Americans series. Latin I.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY REBECCA BUSH Quia Activities designed primarily for the Latin for Americans series. There are also some activities to accompany Our Latin Heritage. Latin II.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY REBECCA BUSH Quia Activities designed to assist students learning more advanced grammar topics (subjunctives, infinitives, indirect discourse, gerunds and more) plus medieval Latin. Latin III.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY REBECCA BUSH These interactive activities -- many of them written by Rebecca Bush -- cover rhetorical devices and authors on the AP Latin syllabus (Ovid, Catullus)
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER MCCANN, EMERITUS *NEW* Intended for use with Oerberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. Through Capitulum 15.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY MAGISTER MCCANN, EMERITUS *NEW* More Oerberg activities. Through Capitulum 30.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY ROBERT PATRICK These activities are based upon the Oerberg Latina Lingua Per Se Illustrata textbook.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY ROBERT PATRICK These activities all have a mythology theme.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY ROBERT PATRICK These activities are based on the Oxford Latin Course.
QUIA ACTIVITIES BY ROBERT PATRICK Lots and lots of activities with miscellaneous Latin and Classical themes.
QUIA ACTIVITIES by MICHELLE VITT Quia Activities designed for the Cambridge Latin Course.
RANDOM HOUSE MAGIC TREE HOUSE Online activities and printable activities to accompany the Magic Tree House series, a fantastic historical series for elementary students written by Mary Pope Osbourne. You’ll also find an author biography, book list, newsletter, and club for readers and writers.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST CENTURY This website accompanies the PBS broadcast of the series. Teachers will want to pay special attention to a specially designed section of educational activities which include The Emperor of Rome interactive game, Which Ancient Roman Are You quiz, a Virtual Library and Timeline. Eight lessons are provided as well as a video clip library.
ROMAN MYSTERIES Hosted by the BBC, this game is based upon the characters and storyline in her Roman Mysteries books, which are now a British children’s television series.
THE ROMANS Antony Kamm’s The Romans, published by Routledge, has been placed online by Andrew Wilson. This searchable online resource contains the text of the book, from the foundation to the end of the empire, as well as timelines, photographs, original illustrations, AND a number of interactive quizzes!
ROMAN SUDOKU This excellent blog designed by Laura Gibbs provides sample games of Sudoku using Roman numerals. There is also a book available for purchase.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HELLENIC STUDIES *NEW* A society promoting the study of Greek literature, history, culture, art and archaeology from ancient times to the present. Language teachers will be especially interested in the Support for Schools section of the website which includes a downloadable Junior Ancient Greek course and links. There’s no direct link to the Support for Schools page. You’ll need to go to the main page and then click on the button in the sidebar. The course includes both black and white and color editions as well as a teacher’s guide. Also see Tempora Clausenti, which has games, word searches, and quizzes based on Ancient Greek culture.
TEACH YOURSELF SOME LATIN Jean Alvares’ experiemental Javascripted pages are not based on any one textbook and include noun and verb drills. Also includes an online guide for creating your own.
TIME WARP TRIO ADVENTURES Brought to you by Discovery Kids Channel, the Time Warp Trio is an animated educational cartoon based upon a series of chapter books written by author Jon Scieszka. Adventures that particulary pertain to Classics include My Big Fat Greek Olympics, The Seven Blunders of the World, and See You Later, Gladiator. Also located on the site are lesson plans to accompany each book and show.
TRANSPARENT LANGUAGE Transparent Language designs and sells language learning software and audio products. Visit their site and hear some conversational Latin words and phrases, take a Latin proficiency test, or play a word search game.
USEFUL JAVASCRIPTS FOR TEACHING GREEK Jean Alvares’ Javascripts based upon the Athenaze series.
WHEELOCK LATIN EXERCISES 40 Units and hundreds of exercises!
WINGED SANDALS A fabulous educational multimedia site, based upon Greek mythology. Here you’ll find stories, games, animations, craft ideas, screensavers, and more! Available in both Flash and HTML formats from the Australian Broadcasting System and the University of Melbourne’s Center for Classics and Archaeology.
WORDSQUARE CHALLENGE Online Latin word search game based upon the Cambridge Latin Course. From Andrew Wilson’s Classics Pages.
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