The Roman Empire Invades 7th grade

From building catapults to recreating a Roman aqueduct, 7th grade students from Mr. Giraldo’s history class worked over a month on their Roman empire projects.

Students began studying about Rome at the beginning of the second bimester and had over a month to work at their project which involved both a model and  PowerPoint presentation. Both were presented during class on December 2nd.

“Its foundational. In our western world, government,military,civil engineering language some many of their development are essential for students,” Rafael Giraldo , 7th grade World History teacher, explained.

Many of the everyday conveniences we use today, were developed the Romans. The main purpose of the Rome project is to make the connection between the one of the greatest empires of all time and our modern day civilization. Students understand this connection after months of work in their projects

“They have developed our society and invented a lot of fun and smart things. I am building an actual Roman catapult,” 7th grader Martin Rico said.

The project is  composed of two parts, a model and a PowerPoint presentation. Students are assigned a topic and have to research and build their own models. They have time to work during class but it’s done mostly at home. Mr. Giraldo gives students the opportunity to work in partners since the project requires a large amount of work. The most important parts of the project  is the research and the model.

“Researching about the ancient technologies is the hardest part of this project, there is so much information about everything,” 7th grader Maria del Mar Jaramillo said.

Students have to include detailed information about their topic in the PowerPoint because the idea of the presentations is for students to teach each other about their topics. The project was a hard and challenging task for 7th graders but they end up enjoying it

“It’s fun, you can be creative and work with your friends and build a model, I think the project is really hard but I enjoy working on it,” Jaramillo said

The projects are presented during class and are graded as part of students bimester II grade.

“I learned a lot from the Roman Emipre. This is the kind of project you appreciate, I mean its really cool. I hope we do more projects like this one,” 7th grader Tomas Posada said.