{"id":3671,"date":"2015-12-04T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2015-11-30T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:22:40","slug":"roman-holiday-part-1-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/roman-holiday-part-1-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Holiday! – Part 1: Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roman Holiday!<\/a><\/strong> – Part 1: Research<\/a>\"\"<\/a>
\n“In this activity you will work in teams. You will design a guided tour which you hope to sell to a customer (your teacher). The class will be arranged into two teams. Each member or each team should choose two sites from different categories in this list to research further. The teacher might arrange this so that a member of the first team chooses first, then a member of the next team, and so on until all students in all the teams have made their choices. Each site should be chosen by only one person in the class if this the size of the class makes this possible”.<\/p>\n

Part of the new Roman Empire unit<\/a> at www.activehistory.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roman Holiday! – Part 1: Research “In this activity you will work in teams. You will design a guided tour which you hope to sell to a customer (your teacher). The class will be arranged into two teams. Each member or each team should choose two sites from different categories in this list to research… <\/p>\n

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