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Ever wanted to visit Zeus and the Olympians on Mt Olympus? Or what about participating in an Egyptian mummification process? This introductory course to Ancient History and Classical Studies offers you the opportunity to study the cultures of some of the world’s ancient and foremost civilizations. These include: Ancient Chinese, Romans, Egyptians and even the Vikings. You will explore aspects of these civilisations and examine their myths and legends, important towns and cities and the important historical events that help shape and develop them, as leading civilisations. Help bring these civilisations back to life by combining your knowledge, inquiry skills and Minecraft to recreate them and bring them into the 21st Century.

Big Ideas/Concepts: 

• Learn about how people perceive, interpret, and interact with places and environments.

• Use gamification to develop a world (that shows relationship between people and environment) of your own from ideation through to digital creation.

• Select a platform that you would like to use to create a digital version of your world.

• Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability.