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Italy
Here’s a list of the resources we used, videos we watched, and activities we did in our study of Italy:
Junior Jetsetters: Italy for Kids
Junior Jetsetters: Italy for Kids. A quick, short, but fun introductory video that gives kids a great overview of the country of Italy.
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Epicurious: The Secret History of Pizza
Epicurious: The Secret History of Pizza. A fun little video that takes you back through the years to discover where pizza came from.
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Dance Along With Rosie & Posie: Italian Tarantella
Dance Along With Rosie & Posie: Italian Tarantella. For a little cultural experience and a fun exercise, we added this Italian dance to our lesson on Italy. There are actually two videos to this activity. In the first video Rosie and Posie teach the different dance steps needed in order to do the Italian Tarantella. Then, once you know the dance moves, you can dance along in this video!
>> Dance Lesson with Rosie & Posie (Italian Tarantella)
>> Dance Along with Rosie & Posie (Italian Tarantella)
Tambourine Paper Plate Craft
Tambourine Paper Plate Craft. Rosie and Posie’s Italian Tarantella dance (above) uses tambourines in their dance, which can be fun little activity and craft in itself. Here’s a video on how to make a really quick and easy paper plate tambourine.
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Volcanoes
Since Italy is the home to some of the most famous volcanoes in the world, we took the opportunity to study volcanoes during our “tour” of Italy. First of all watching a few short kids’ videos about volcanoes and then made our own volcano and had fun erupting it!
Making the volcano was VERY easy! We just took a tall, glass juice bottle, and used crumpled sheets of paper and wide packing tape to make the form of the volcano around the glass jar.
Next we made a very quick, simple salt dough recipe by mixing together 1 cup water,
1 cup salt, and about 3 cups of flour (start with less flour and just keep adding
and kneading the dough until it becomes a good play-
We had some “sticky fun” covering our paper mountain with the salt dough. Then put our volcano outside to dry in the sun.
The next day, we painted it! Mostly brown, but a little red streaming down from the top to look like lava.
Gave it another day to dry and then came the fun part – eruption!
Again, very simple! We just poured about 2 or 3 tablespoons of baking soda into the opening of our volcano and added about 4 drops of red food coloring. Then for the actual eruption you just pour in some vinegar over the baking soda and watch it bubble up and overflow!
So much fun!!
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Earth Science for Kids (Rock N Learn)
Earth Science for Kids (Rock N Learn). This earth science video has a lot more to it than just volcanoes. The section about volcanoes starts at around the 23:07 mark.
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– SciShow Kids: All About Volcanoes
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