Nathalie Roy
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Nathalie Roy
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Certified Nerd - NBCT, 2021 LaSTOY, Creative Classics, #RomanTechnology, #MythMakers, #Hands-OnHistory, #STEMinClassics, #ClassicsInSpace, Latin, Still a #GirlScout, Always a #Maker, Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MagistraRoy
It's summer break which means nerd research time!! My most recent #STEMinClassics nerd interest is cryptography. Any suggestions on what I should read in addition to the stuff listed in this blog post? Light me up, y'all! allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
The Year in Roman Technology: "Unhinged" Secret Messages
People always ask, "What do teachers do during the summer?" Some actually work. In fact, I normally work at my school's summer camp. This ye...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It was so weird seeing this video being played remotely in Brazil where the annual conference of EXARC is happening this week. I couldn't attend in person (due to cost) so I watched at home at my desk. My presentation about the Roman Shoe Project: youtu.be/uSFvbQOKVv8?...
Stepping into Hands-On History: Teaching Young Students How to Make Roman Leather Shoes
YouTube video by EXARC
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May 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We are officially DONE with our Roman Shoe Project. Enjoy these pictures and parting thoughts 🖤⚒️: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: The HEELing Art of Shoemaking
I asked my Roman Technology students, "How many people can say they know someone who's actually made a pair of shoes?" Before I realized my ...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Roman Shoe Project is officially over! We did it, y'all!!! My #RomanTechnology students made their own Roman leather shoes. Here's a blog post about the process itself.
I'll have more exciting pics from our fashion sho(w)e (get it?) later. allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: SHOEperstars!!
Y'all!!! Our shoes are done, but before I share pictures of our runway sho(w)e (LOL, get it?), I wanted to talk about the long process of bu...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We've been super busy in #RomanTechnology class making stuff out of leather as part of our Roman Shoe Project. 🖤⚒️This lil leather mouse found at Vindolanda is the perfect inspiration for whimsy projects: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: Tiny Animal Tracks
One of the absolute cutest things I've ever seen at a Roman museum is this little leather scrap mouse. Found in a box of leather offcuts or ...
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February 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thanks to the GLOVE DOCTOR for talking to my students about his work with leather! #RomanTechnology 🖤⚒️ A wonderful guest speaker for our lessons during the Roman Shoe Project! allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: A Guest Speaker from Left Field
At the beginning of the school year, our school district asked all teachers and students to take a RIASEC assessment. I had never heard of R...
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February 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Our first ancient Roman leather working lesson, making our own Roman BULLAE, protective amulets. #RomanTechnology🖤⚒️ allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: Baby Steps with BULLAE
With all the fascinating information out there about ancient Roman leather shoes, I knew that I would have plenty of lessons to share with m...
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February 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I have been super busy over the past few months with a BIG project. I'm sure you're thinking, "Which one?" LOL. But this is the REAL one, right here: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Roman Shoe Project: Stepping into Hands-on History
I've been MIA from blogging for the past couple of months because this project has demanded my full attention. We have really been busy. Let...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Thanks to Roman shoe archaeologist, Dr. Beth Greene, for answering all my middle school students’ questions today about leather shoes!! #RomanTechnology 🖤⚒️
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So proud of my #RomanTechnology students for creating their own Roman leather BULLAE and LUNULAE (ancient protective necklaces). We are halfway through our Roman Shoe Project so they are learning leather working skills through smaller projects first. 🖤⚒️
February 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#RomanTechnology #exarc Excited to get my copy!! 🖤⚒️
January 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Pompeian pigments in little pots from the Pompeii Exhibition at Graceland. Blue=ground up lapis lazuli, purple=murex snail mucus, and red=Armenian lead. #RomanTechnology
January 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Me amazed by the #RomanTechnology of this ancient Pompeian GLIRARIUM for fattening up dormice. Bigger than I thought it would be! At the POMPEII EXHIBITION at Graceland 🖤⚒️
January 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Reposted by Nathalie Roy
At first I thought: imagine the conversations! And then I thought: actually, they were probably pretty mundane :) Regardless, an incredible find. #AncientBlueSky

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests
Thermal bath complex is latest discovery among ruins of Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius eruption in AD79
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January 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Congrats!!!
December 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
As the 2021 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year, I will always hold this program dear to my heart. Congrats to all the 2025 CCSSO State Teachers of the Year!! Shine bright!! ntoy.ccsso.org/introducing-...
Introducing the 2025 State Teachers of the Year – ntoy.ccsso.org
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December 19, 2024 at 7:44 PM
IO SATURNALIA!!! I know all you classics peeps have been "whey"ting with baited breath to see how my Roman Technology students have been celebrating? Cheese! Cheese is the answer. And other exciting stuff too. Read here: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2024/12/this...
This Year in Roman Technology: Celebrating the End of the Semester with Food Technology
When I told my students that we would be studying Roman food processing and technology, they were super excited. Teenagers like to eat! It a...
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December 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Happy certification day to all new National Board Certified teachers! Despite my NBCT status, it's always one of mixed emotions for me because the @nbpts.bsky.social continues to deny certification possibility to teachers of Latin/Greek and others. allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-re...
A "Renewed" Issue: Why doesn't the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certify teachers of Latin (and other languages)?
On an early December Saturday morning, bleary-eyed, after waiting for 8 months, I woke up to check my scores. When I was able to finally log...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Students love our #RomanTechnology class merch!! ⚒️🖤
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 PM
#RomanTechnology students reproduced Cato the Elder’s grape must biscuits today! We’ll bake them on Friday on top of bay leaves. 🖤⚒️
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 AM
The best early Saturnalia present just arrived in the mail, signed by its authors!!!! Objects have such wonderful stories to tell. #Vindolanda
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Check out my SciFri
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article on making ancient ink from oak galls! 🖤⚒️ www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...
Make Ancient Ink With The Help Of Oak Tree Parasites
Bring history to life through biology and chemistry as you make iron oak gall ink like Leonardo da Vinci did.
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December 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Interested in #HandsOnHistory and #making? Check out my starter pack: go.bsky.app/6f1TGXw
December 3, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Today, it was #RomanTechnology students vs. grain. 💪🏻 We started our bread technology week today! ⚒️🖤
December 3, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Read about my students' archaeology outreach event sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America! We had a blast!! allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2024/11/can-...
Can You Dig It? An Evening of Hands-On History and Archaeology
As a kid, I was obsessed with paleontology and archaeology. I kept a human femur in my bedroom and dug up the dental tools discarded by an a...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM