A number of days in the past whereas driving residence from seeing a group theater’s musical manufacturing of The Little Mermaid one in every of my daughters requested me “why does Venice have canals as a substitute of roads?” It was a query that I used to be blissful to reply. The query additionally impressed me to revisit some gadgets on the subject that I new have been in my weblog’s archives, someplace. This is my up to date listing of assets for instructing and studying about Venice. 

And head right here for extra posts impressed by the questions my daughters ask me. 

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 concerning the metropolis.

The Venice Backstage web site provides further articles and graphics to help the data introduced within the video.

College students can nearly discover Venice by way of this Avenue View Trek. The Avenue View Trek by way of Venice lets college students journey the town on foot and journey by way of the canals in gondolas. The Avenue View Trek by way of Venice additionally provides 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 kids to discover. I would advocate beginning with 7 Wonderful Issues You By no means Knew About Venice.

How Did They Actually Construct Venice? is a 5 minute animated rationalization 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 now by heading right here.