Here are the videos to accompany the books!
Week 1, Day 1: Why Was Venice Actually Built on Water
Week 1, Day 2: Inside the Gondola Workshop
Week 1, Day 3: Millefiori Glass Paperweights
Activity “Rosetta Beads” — Polymer Clay Tutorial
Week 1, Day 4: Why should you listen to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
Activity “Guided Listening” — Vivaldi Four Seasons with sonnets
Week 1, Day 5: Venetian Masks, History and Creation
Week 2, Day 1: Rome for Kids
Week 2, Day 2: Cartoon – Art with Mati and Dada – Giotto and Saint Francis
Week 2, Day 3: If You Drop a Feather into a Vacuum
Week 2, Day 4: Encoding the Fibonacci Sequence into Music
For mid-elementary students and up: Golden Ratio-Mind Blown!
Week 2, Day 5: The Leaning Tower of Pisa: Italy’s Legendary Architectural Mistake
Week 3, Day 1: The Boboli Gardens
Week 3, Day 2: How an Amateur Built the World’s Biggest Dome
Week 3, Day 3: Da Vinci Parachute
Week 3, Day 4: Difference between Harpsichord and Piano e Forte Actions
Activity: “Dynamic Singing” — Italian Alphabet Song
Week 3, Day 5: Flying Over Florence
Week 4, Day 1: Sardinia Travel Guide
Week 4, Day 2: Artist Spotlight — Tomie dePaola
Week 4, Day 3: Pliny The Elder: Great Minds
Week 4, Day 4: Sicilian Traditional Folk Dance: Tarantella
Activity: “Dance the Tarantella” — Easy Tarantella for Kids, Italian Folk Dance
Week 4, Day 5: This Italian road trip is one for the bucket list: From Napoli to Amalfi