Hi to you all! I'm filling in on the interdisciplinary section this month, so please look things over and see what is useful to you, and what would be fun and beneficial to your students.

School has started, but hopefully we'll have plenty of good weather to enjoy before colder weather sets in. For that reason I've focused on providing you LOTS of great, fun games and lessons. Most all the resources listed here can be utilized indoors, but use what you can outdoors before it gets too chilly.

Terri Covey - pelinks4u webmaster

Childbirth and Children in Ancient Egypt
Children were considered a blessing in ancient Egypt. Sons and daughters took care of their parents in their old age. They were often called "the staff of old age," that is, one upon whom the elderly parents could depend upon for support and care. Read the rest...

Children in Ancient History
This is really interesting information about the lives of children in ancient history. This information is ABOUT children, but not intended for children but strictly for mature adults.

Children's Games - Ancient Egypt
Read some interesting information on some games kids played in Ancient Egypt. Some of these might be fun for an 'historical' field day.

The Games at Olympia
Introduce your child to the original Olympic Games, in this object-based interactive. From The British Museum.

Egyptian Mummy
Embalming in gruesome detail, bound to fascinate kids studying Egyptians.

Journey Into The Mummy - an amazing online tour of a mummy. Scientists have used hi-tech virtual reality to show you inside the coffin, under the bandages and even inside the body of a 3000-year old Egyptian mummy called Nesperennub.

Roman Ball Games - Ball-playing was popular among the Romans, and they often spent their morning exercises playing games on the fields (palaestra) or ball-courts (sphaerista). Find out more...

The REAL Olympic Games - Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? - An online learning adventure and fun virtual exhibit that will answer these questions ... and more.

Ancient Games - On these pages are some really simple games with very ancient origins. As is often the case the exact origin of these games can be hard to identify, but I’m pretty sure children (and adults) would have played these games, just as they are still played today in some parts of the world. Find out more...

Ancient Egyptian Sports - Many of today's sports were practiced by the Ancient Egyptians, who set the rules and regulations for them. Inscriptions on monuments indicate that they practiced wrestling, weightlifting, long jump, swimming, rowing, shooting, fishing and athletics, as well as various kinds of ball games. Check these out...

HEALTH AND HYGIENE (scroll down page)

Medical Care: The healers, the diseases, herbal medicine, pregnancy and childbirth, surgery, prosthetics, dentistry, historical perspective.
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
The Ebers medical Papyrus
The Hearst medical papyrus
Diodorus Siculus on Egyptian medicine
Personal Hygiene and Cosmetics: Cosmetics, perfumes, washing, hair
Vermin

BOOK: Interdisciplinary Teaching: Through Adventure and Activity - Provides information that can be used to create and teach activities designed to cover different subject areas across the curriculum.

A Spin On Fitness (gr 3-5)
Playing a fitness spinner game that has different physical activities marked on it allows all students to participate in specific fitness exercises. Students are divided into groups of four to six student and each group has their own spinner board.

Add-On Line Dancing (gr 3-5)
The class picks a song for the day to which students move rhythmically. As the lesson progresses, students make up a specific move to teach to the class which will then put all the moves together in a sequence.

5-6-7-8: Grapevine Dance Step (gr 6)
Have your students move to the music of 'Swamp Thing' by The Grid in order to learn the grapevine dance step.

2-on-1 Tennis (gr 4)
Have your students participate in this fun activity to improve tennis skills and hand-eye coordination.

100 Healthy Habits
Grade Level: Kindergarten,Grade 1,Grade 2
Discuss with students different ways to stay healthy and have them think of examples of exercises they can do in the classroom. Choose 10 exercises to do and do 10 reps of each to equal 100 exercises.

Choose a Challenger
Students analyze their peers' physical education test scores to determine who would be the best choice to compete in their school-wide Olympic events.

Winter Games - Bring physical fitness inside the classroom by integrating the Winter Games into other subject areas. With these plans teachers can integrate art, health, language arts, math, science, social skills, and social studies with physical fitness.

Traditional Children's Games from Around the World
Discover how children from Venezuela, Mexico, Korea, China, Germany, and many other countries play different versions of the same traditional games such as jump rope, marbles, tag, top spinning,
hopscotch, jacks, card games.

Down Down Down - Argentina
You start off with a tennis ball and throw the ball continuously back and forth until somebody drops the ball. When someone drops the ball you say "Down on one knee." Then say the same person drops it a second time, you say "Down on two knees." If the same person drops the ball again you say "Down on one elbow,"and then"down on two elbows," and then chin, and then you're out, but remember you have to stay in the position you're in to catch the ball and throw the ball.

Tinikling - Philippines
Tinikling is very similar to jump rope, but instead of a spinning rope, two bamboo poles are used (for pe, perhaps another kind of pole could be used). This really looks like it could be fun!

Pilolo - Ghanan
In Ghanan this name means "Time to Search For." This is a hiding, searching, and running game.

Hanetuki - Japan
Similar to badminton, but slightly different equipment. I think making the 'racket' and 'birdies' yourself would be a great art project! It would be interesting to see the variations of rackets and birdies the kids made.

Up and Down - Pakistan
A fun variation of the typical tag game. Variety keeps the game continually fresh, fun, and enjoyable.

Banyoka - Though associated with Zambia, the game was played by the Bemba tribe who lived in what is now both Zambia and the southern part of Zaire. Banyoka means "the snakes." The game probably developed from observing these creatures roaming the region.