For one of Savannah's history projects, she chose to build the wall of China. Most of the wall of China was made by slaves stamping earth and gravel with their feet between board frames for years and years.
Savannah built a wooden frame and then pounded with a mallet, earth and gravel until it was solid. She then slowly pulled the wooden frame off and we had a small piece of wall. It definitely was easier to make then the original wall, and helped us understand the concept of how it was made better.
The Wall of China is sitting in the Roman Road Model.....another project we did where we tried to replicate the process of building a Roman road. We put down a layer of glue (aka cement), then pebbles, then sand, then dirt, then bull-dozed it with a rolling pin. It didn't look like the Roman roads but we figured they had several years of chariots and horses to help smooth theirs out.
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