Free Know-how for Lecturers: All About Venice

A number of days in the past whereas driving dwelling from seeing a neighborhood theater’s musical manufacturing of The Little Mermaid one in every of my daughters requested me “why does Venice have canals as a substitute of roads?” It was a query that I used to be glad to reply. The query additionally impressed me to revisit some gadgets on the subject that I new had been in my weblog’s archives, someplace. This is my up to date record of assets for instructing and studying about Venice. 

And head right here for extra posts impressed by the questions my daughters ask me. 

Venice Backstage is a seventeen minute video that explains how the water is contained, how the buildings keep upright, and the way residents of Venice journey concerning the metropolis.

The Venice Backstage web site presents further articles and graphics to assist the knowledge offered within the video.

College students can nearly discover Venice by way of this Road View Trek. The Road View Trek by way of Venice lets college students journey the town on foot and journey by way of the canals in gondolas. The Road View Trek by way of Venice additionally offers college students the chance to step inside historic buildings within the metropolis.

Google Arts & Tradition has hundreds of things tagged with “Venice” for college kids to discover. I might advocate beginning with 7 Wonderful Issues You By no means Knew About Venice.

How Did They Actually Construct Venice? is a 5 minute animated clarification of how and why Venice was constructed.

On a associated observe, I supply a Sensible Ed Tech course all about making animated explanations. You can begin that course at the moment by heading right here.