This week I’ve been facilitating a discussion with my 7th and 8th graders about ancient Mesopotamia. Particularly we’re looking at the transition of Hunter Gatherer societies toward agricultural city states. Exploring the reasons for the change and the challenges that came with it. We also discussed reasons why some groups of people evolved into agricultural societies and why some chose not to. Exploring the positive and negative aspects of each.
This coming week I will be guiding the students through a simulation of building and maintaining a City State in minecraft. Students will be organized according to the social hierarchy of the time, priests, artisans, peasants, slaves, etc.. each with their own duties and expectations. I’ll write more as the simulation progresses.
I chose to use this blogger primarily because i had already created it for my Games and Simulation course this past spring semester. I also enjoy the simple and direct interface.
