Free Know-how for Academics: All About Venice

Just a few days in the past whereas driving residence from seeing a group theater’s musical manufacturing of The Little Mermaid considered one of my daughters requested me “why does Venice have canals as a substitute of roads?” It was a query that I used to be completely happy to reply. The query additionally impressed me to revisit some objects 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. 

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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 presents extra articles and graphics to help the data offered within the video.

College students can just about 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 provides college students the chance to step inside historic buildings within the metropolis.

Google Arts & Tradition has hundreds 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 supply a Sensible Ed Tech course all about making animated explanations. You can begin that course as we speak by heading right here.