CRETE AND THE MINOANS

For my fourth History Club presentation I wanted to talk about the Minoans and the great eruption on the island of Thera (now known as Santorini) in 1645 BC.

I made a map of some of Greece, especially of the islands and Crete to show how the sea was a very important part of their culture. I talked about their ship building and the trade between islands and then about the volcano that ended up destroying their civilization over the next 50 years.

 It was a lot of fun making the islands out of modelling clay.

I drew the islands in pencil first from an atlas I have, then pushed up the middles to make the mountains. 

 Then I painted them with a dry sponge and then I put some "grass" on the tops of the mountains.

 This was the volcano with soda I made that we exploded with vinegar at the History Club.

GREEK GODS AND STUFF

Because we're now at Ancient Greece in our Story of the World book in the History Club, I looked at some sites on the Internet about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. I can't remember where I got these pictures from, but they're really cool for colouring in and I used them to make a short book of a few of the ones I liked best.

The book I wrote them in was an old First Words Book, recycled especially for the project.