A number of days in the past whereas driving residence from seeing a neighborhood theater’s musical manufacturing of The Little Mermaid one among my daughters requested me “why does Venice have canals as an alternative of roads?” It was a query that I used to be comfortable to reply. The query additionally impressed me to revisit some objects on the subject that I new have been in my weblog’s archives, someplace. This is my up to date checklist of assets for instructing and studying about Venice.
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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 in regards to the metropolis.
The Venice Backstage web site provides further articles and graphics to help the knowledge introduced 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 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 1000’s of things tagged with “Venice” for college students to discover. I would suggest 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 provide a Sensible Ed Tech course all about making animated explanations. You can begin that course right this moment by heading right here.
