Test your skills at being a viking?

Play this interactive game to see if you could have been a successful Viking?

Are you smarter than a caveman?

Test yourself with this game from the BBC.

Virtual Tour of the Hagia Sophia

check out the Hagia Sophia through this great virtual tour
http://www.360tr.com/34_istanbul/ayasofya/english/

Welcome Back

Current events are an important part of the Social Studies curriculum. We will highlight some events based on how they relate to the curriculum and the importance of the event. Below is a link for two well known magazines that also have kids magazine online to help students follow the news.

Time for Kids

National Geographic for kids

Maya Links

here are some neat interactive links from the Maya

Take the Maya math challenge
http://www.mayaskies.org/mayamath.html

Maya information for kids
http://www.mayankids.com/mmkpeople/mkwrite.htm

The ball game

Chinese Links

Here are couple of links that cover information we've talked about in class:

Samurai Sword
http://www.samurai-sword-site.com/Japanese-Sword-Making.php

General Information on the Samurai
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/duchamp/410/samurai2.html

Virtual Japan
This site has lots of cool virtual activities on Japanese culture
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/index.html

Samurai Kids
This site is for a book series called Samurai Kids but it also has great information on it.
http://www.samuraikids.com.au/index.html

China Geography
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/geography/challenge/cha_set.html

Chinese Games

http://www.china.mrdonn.org/games.html

Modern China
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/soundmap/index.html

Zen Garden

Need help meditating and relaxing. Try this Virtual Zen Garden. Do you think the Samurai had the right idea when it came to trying to clear their mind?

http://www.japangarden.co.uk/Zen-Garden-p-16.html