Rome History Hunt for Kids 11-13 | Printable Travel Investigation Book | The Tiber to the Colosseum, 52 Pages, Instant Download

Rome History Hunt. A 52 page investigation for ages 11 to 13, and the one I waited eight years of teaching ancient Rome to write.

Six stops across Rome, and each one is a case. The Forum Boarium by the Tiber, the cattle market that only existed because the Cloaca Maxima drained the ground in the sixth century BCE. The Pantheon, Hadrian's building on Agrippa's site, and the oculus that decides where the daylight lands. The Arch of Titus, where a menorah carved into the stone asks who chose the pictures and whose loss the monument leaves out. The Parco degli Acquedotti, where Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus ran one above the other to bring water into the city. Monte Testaccio, a hill made of millions of broken olive oil amphorae, the city's discarded deliveries, still there two thousand years on. And the Colosseum, opened in 80 CE, where the people watching, the people working and the people facing danger did not have the same day.

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 the sixth century BCE to todaySix stops, each with the story, a flashback, evidence pages and a crew challengeAn evidence gallery, a travel diary page and a question still openThe Rome City Sleuth certificate at the end. My kids will do a lot for a certificate.

A note for parents. Some of the stops involve conquest, loss and unequal lives, the Arch of Titus and the arena floor of the Colosseum. The book leaves room for honest questions and a pause. That's on purpose.

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 Rome guide is here: https://adventuresweseek.com/rome-city-guide/And the wider Italy guide is here: https://adventuresweseek.com/italy-travel-guide/