All About Italy

December 14, 2021

All About Italy

We learned about Italy this month! The kids loved exploring the country on google maps, especially Roma. Here is the lesson plan we followed if you need some Italian inspiration for your homeschool unit.

Italy Learning Plan

Geography

Google Maps Exploration
Italy Information and Coloring Sheets
Italy Library Books

Art

Videos and Infographics of Italian Artists: Da Vinci and Michelangelo
Michelangelo - Sculpting Hands
Da Vinci - Mirror Writing

Science

Dancing Spaghetti Experiment

Math

Measuring Spaghetti (Inches and Centimeters)
Counting to 10 in Italian
Roman Numerals

Life Skills

Baking Pizza

GEOGRAPHY

Google maps exploration: The kids had so much fun looking up landmarks, exploring cities, and using the walking feature to explore Italy. We spent a lot of time exploring Rome and Venice.

Library books and handouts. Below is a copy of a Crayola handout, you can also find so many handouts for all units on teacherspayteachers.com. Our favorite book we found at the library was: Follow Me around Italy, by Wiley Blevins.

ART

We watched videos and read about Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Here is a good mini bio about Da Vinci. We created hand sculpture with air dry clay (the kiddos did an amazing job).

We also used old paper to write backwards in mirror writing styles of Leonardo Da Vinci. The littles really like revealing their messages in the mirror!

SCIENCE

We did the dancing spaghetti experiment.

Materials needed:

jar
spoon
1 tablespoon baking soda
2 cups water
dry spaghetti noodles
1/2 white vinegar

First we made a hypothesis about weather we can make the spaghetti dance.

We mixed the baking soda and water in a jar, added small pieces of pasta, then added the vinegar, and recorded our results. Below find a blank scientific worksheet...