Paris History Hunt for Kids 11-13 | Printable Travel Investigation Book | Roman Lutetia to the Republic, 52 Pages, Instant Download

Paris History Hunt. A 52 page investigation for ages 11 to 13, starting with a Roman arena most people walk past without knowing it's there.

Six stops, and each one is a case. The Arenes de Lutece, what's left of the town called Lutetia, and Gavin's Roman clue challenge. Notre-Dame, built, burned and rebuilt, with Avilene's cathedral detective game and two skylines to compare. The Louvre, the fortress Philippe Auguste ordered around 1190 that became a palace, and Adam challenges the king. Boulevard Haussmann, the city remade by straight lines after 1853, so I get a boulevard challenge. Les Halles, the market that fed a growing city, where Jake follows the market basket. And Place de la Republique, where bronze Marianne stands and the question is who gets to speak for the Republic, with a flashback to the first time women in France voted in 1945.

At every stop your kid reads the real history in two solid paragraphs, steps into a flashback, then does the investigator's job. Notice. Compare. Decode. Sketch. Gather evidence. Our family is on the page doing the same thing, so it reads like joining an adventure, not a textbook.

The whole book runs on GRAPES. Geography, religion, achievements, politics, economics, social structure. It's the way I taught the ancient world for eight years and it's the way I still walk through a city. Once a kid has it, they can't unsee it.

WHAT'S INSIDEInvestigator file and a words to know page (evidence, inference, primary source, corroboration)A timeline from Roman Lutetia to 1945Six stops, each with the story, a flashback, evidence pages and a crew challengeAn evidence gallery, a travel diary page and a question still openThe Paris City Sleuth certificate at the end. My kids will do a lot for a certificate.

PRINTINGOne PDF, instant download. Designed for US Letter at 100 percent. Printing on A4? Choose Fit to Page and it comes out fine. Regular paper works. Or skip the printer and open it on a tablet with a stylus.

WHO MADE THISI'm Nicole, an ASTA Verified Travel Advisor with FG Luxury Travel, and I plan international family trips for a living. Adventures We Seek is my travel blog and planning resource, and trips are booked through Favorite Grampy Travels. Before that I taught social studies for eight years.

In May 2026 we sold our house and moved abroad with our three kids and the dog, so we are going country to country right now with one hiking bag each, no suitcases. Every book in this library has our family in it. Gavin, Jake, Avilene, Adam, me and Poppy the dog, who is quite sure she is a person.

The whole Learning Library, every city, is here: https://adventuresweseek.com/

Planning the trip? My Paris guide is here: https://adventuresweseek.com/paris-city-guide/And the wider France guide is here: https://adventuresweseek.com/france-travel-guide/