Imperial China - Song Dynasty - Science and Technology

The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram
Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China by Suzanne Williams

Discussion:
Major inventions of the Song Dynasty - gunpowder, Su Song's clock, rainbow arch bridges
Improvements to existing industries - iron and steel, silk, ceramics

Activity:
History journal
Picture study: Song Dynasty ceramics
Build a rainbow bridge

Medieval Europe - Feudalism - Cities and Trades

Life in the Middle Ages: The City by Kathryn Hinds
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed by Priscilla Galloway and Martha Newbigging
Science and Technology in the Middle Ages by Joanne Findon and Marsha Groves
Medieval Society by Kay Eastwood
Children and Games in the Middle Ages by Lynne Elliott

Discussion:
Trades, guilds, and apprenticeships
Clusters of trades and merchants
City governments

Activity:
History journal
Map study: largest cities in the early Middle Ages

Medieval Middle East - Abbasid Empire - Science

Islam by Neil Morris
1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization by National Geographic Kids

The Genius of Islam by Bryn Barnard

Islamic Art and Culture: A Visual Guide by Nasser Khalili

Discussion:
Major inventions and discoveries
Branches of learning developed - astronomy, book production, agriculture, medicine
Avicenna

Activity:
Go out at night and see if you can find any of the astronomical bodies with Arabic names
Learn an algebraic equation
History journal

Ancient Greece - Philosophy and Science - Review

The student should be able to match the person to his contribution:

Asclepius	Medicine	Revered as a god, might not be historical
Galen	Medicine	Wrote work of medicine used for over a thousand years
Hippocrates	Medicine	Hippocratic oath (recite)
Anaxagoras	Astronomy	Eclipses
Socrates	Philosophy	Socratic method of teaching; "All I know is I know nothing"; Recite his prayer to Pan
Plato	Philosophy	Founder of the Academy
Aristotle	Philosophy	Syllogism, logic, teacher of Alexander the Great
Pythagoras	Mathematics	Pythagorean theorem
Euclid	Mathematics	Parallel lines, shortest distance between two points
Archimedes	Engineering	"Eureka" story, Archimedes' screw, levers and pulleys

The student should be able to complete the following:

• Name the seven wonders of the ancient world.
• Draw parallel lines and explain what "parallel" means.
• Give an example of a syllogism.
• Show how an eclipse happens.
• Explain why Socrates was killed.  
• Give an example of following the Hippocratic Oath.

Ancient Greece - Science - Mechanics and Engineering

The Wonders of the Ancient World

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay
The Ancient Greeks by Allison Lassieur
The Aesop for Children (Selections)

Discussion:
Archimedes - "Eureka" story
Engineering feats - temples, statues, buildings (seven wonders of the world)

Activity:
Make a lever, pulley - show how to move objects with simple machines

Ancient Greece - Science - Medicine

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay
The Ancient Greeks by Allison Lassieur
The Aesop for Children (Selections)

Discussion:
Asclepius - legendary; revered as a god; serpent/staff symbol
Hippocrates - the Hippocratic Oath, scientific observation in disease
Galen - arteries; influence on later doctors

Activity:
Picture study: manuscripts, bas reliefs, paintings of medical treatments
Learn the Hippocratic Oath

Ancient Greece - Science - Mathematics

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay
The Ancient Greeks by Allison Lassieur
The Aesop for Children (Selections)

Discussion:
Pythogoras - the Pythagorean theorem
Euclid - parallel lines, shortest distance between two points
Apollonius - parabola, hyperbola, ellipse

Activity:
Take a look at some of the mathematical concepts the people mentioned invented

Ancient Greece - Science - Astronomy

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay
The Ancient Greeks by Allison Lassieur
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
The Library of Alexandria by Kelly Trumble and Robina MacIntyre Marshall

Discussion:
Famous astronomers - Anaxagoras, Heracleides, Aristarchus
Discoveries - round Earth, size of the Earth, planets vs. stars, topography of the moon etc.

Activity:
Make a sun dial
Model an eclipse with a ball, mirror, and flashlight
Look at the moon with the telescope

Ancient China - Science and Medicine

The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient China by Leonard Everett Fisher
Read-aloud: Tongues of Jade by Lawrence Yep

Ancient China by Jane Shuter
Ancient China by Brian Williams
Made in China by Suzanne Williams

Discussion:
What is acupuncture?
What does a seismograph do?
Telling time - water clock

Activity:
Picture Study from Science in Ancient China by George Beshore
Make a seismograph and/or water clock (Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself by Lance Kramer and Steven Weinberg)

Mesopotamia - Babylon - The Hanging Gardens

Story Time:
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean and David Parkins, chapter 6: "Afraid of Nothing"

Activity:
Picture study of Babylonian map, ruins/reconstructions in Ancients in their Own Words: Mesopotamia
Narration of chapter 6

Ancient Egypt - Buildings and Monuments

Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
Sid the Science Kid - Inclined Plane song
Inclined Planes
National Geographic: Great Pyramid (film - Netflix)

Building the Great Pyramid by Kevin Jackson and Jonathan Stamp
Pyramid by David Macauly
Pharaoh's Boat by David Weitzman

Activity:
Build a pyramid complex out of blocks
Draw and label how a pyramid is built