Let's write as Romans did and learning to make a Roman wax tablet

 

LET'S WRITE AS ROMANS DID

The idea of this workshop is not mine, I have copied it from a workshop we did in Palencia. But I decided to do it in class and it proved to be quite interesting.

This is the process to follow:

1. To make a wooden tablet in the Technology class in advance.

 The one on the left is a Romam replica, the one on the right has been made by one student in the Technology classroom.

2. To explain the different supports that Romans used to write:

a) Stone or bronze (for public inscriptions), using the capital letters.

Access to the rest of the lesson plan by clicking here.

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Sonia Mª Rodríguez uses this YouTube video explaining how to make a Roman wax tablet. 

Students can recreate how Roman children learnt to write while learning or reviewing Roman numerals by writing on the tablet.