Games and Animations

Welcome to the Best of History Web Sites Games and Animations section. Below you will find an annotated list of fun history games and animations organized around broad historical periods. Most of these games and animation are aimed at students ages 10-16. Ancient History Games and Animations Gladiator: Dressed to Kill This game has the player choose the correct armor for three different types of Roman gladiators within a time limit. Housesteads Fort This is a 3D tour of a reconstruction of a Roman fort along Hadrian’s Wall in Ancient Britain. Mt. The Mummy Maker Test your knowledge of history with an interactive challenge. Roman Villa This is an interactive reconstruction of a Roman villa viewed in Google Earth. Discover Babylon 500 This strategy game provides challenges and mysteries that can only be solved through developing an understanding of Mesopotamian society. Anglo-Saxon Coins In this game you learn stories behind the coins and try to make “money talk.” Pirates! Early U.S. U.S.

Bringing homework to life at the Museum of London - Kids In Museums Why do homework at home when you can go to a museum and bring the topic to life? This is what struck Kids in Museums’s very own Catherine when her nephew and niece, Aled (aged 10) and Rose (aged 8), visited her in London recently. She therefore took them to the Museum of London to do their Romans homework there. As many of us know, London (formally Londinium) was one of the major cities of the Roman Empire so this historical period is fantastically well preserved around the modern capital. In the hope of unlocking the past, we headed to the Museum of London to experience their exciting activities and rich displays. The Roman section is located on the entrance level and the display is modelled around a snippet of the London Wall so that you can peer at it out of the window and learn about it at the same time. Aled’s homework focused on the military figures in a Roman army. We finished in the Sherlock Holmes Exhibition and this is what the children thought: