Sometimes an idea is so good, it never goes out of style. We still see portraits on coins today, but this idea goes waaaaay back, all the way to ancient times.

The Ancient Greeks put the faces of people as well as gods and goddesses on their coins.

Like many holidays, the origins of St. Patrick’s Day go back many centuries, which makes this a great opportunity to link festive activities with lessons about history.

Here are five engaging activities for St. Patrick’s Day that reflect the origins of the holiday.

1. St. Patrick's Day Parade - Have your students read this article from…

If you work as a teacher, you are aware of how crucial lesson planning is to your role. But constantly coming up with fresh lesson plans can be challenging! As part of our goal to save teachers time, we’ve made up sample lesson plans for all the resources in our Ancient China unit.

To create a rubbing of your Viking ship design, use the template in our resource or draw your design directly onto a piece of paper. Once you have your design, use glue to trace over the lines and let it dry. This activity requires patience, but once the glue is dry, you can make as many rubbings as you'd like. Charcoal and crayons work well for this activity, but feel free to experiment with other art supplies such as pastels. Happy crafting!

Quality teaching resources don’t need to break the bank. There are several great websites, videos and downloads you can use to supplement your unit and keep your students engaged. Here are five websites we recommend if you are teaching about the Viking Age.

Online learning came a long way during this time. Teachers now have access to a multitude of digital resources. But now that in-class learning is back, will digital resources still prove useful?

Here are 6 reasons digital tools could be here to stay.

This free set of interactive task cards is an engaging way to teach middle school students about Ancient Egypt.

Try this really easy test to see how your perception is different when you only use one eye.

After more than 2000 years, the terracotta army, built to guard Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, was a bit like an enormous 3-D puzzle made up of fragments of 8,000 life-size clay figures. Archaeologists and restorers spent months, or even years, on each figure, finding the right places for all the pieces and sticking them back together.

The Ancient Greeks were people who lived in the area around the Greek Peninsula between 4,000 and 2,500 years ago. They spoke the same language and worshiped the same gods but they lived in independent city-states.

The Vikings Bundle includes twelve stand-alone resources that can be taught in any order, plus a review to wrap everything up. However, we can recommend a certain order of topics.

Athens was an ideal location for trade, so even though it was not a fertile area, Athens became a powerful city-state. Athens built a fleet of trading ships and imported all their grain from the Mediterranean, using trade to gain wealth and influence. By the 5th century B.C., Athenian coins were used all over the Mediterranean, and Athens was the head of a Greek alliance against Persia.