This has to have been one my favorite weeks so far in 8th grade History. After studying castle parts in some detail, teams built clay model ones and had to name all the parts they had included. Of course, there was a lot of creativity as well, putting their castles on top of book mountains for protection, surrounded by binder cliffs and paper moats so that enemies wouldn't be able to advance so easily, and of course everyone's new favorite - behind a wall of Greek Fire and under the guard of a fire-breathing dragon.
Then, when they were finished, they were given weapons and told to lay siege to another team's castle.
Things kind of fell apart at this point since paper siege towers could roll right up to book mountains and still be taller. But it was still fun, and I think the students enjoyed themselves AND got the point.
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