<p>Download our popular Ancient Greece lesson planning bundle containing 10 full lessons.</p>
<p>This resource contains a bundle of history lessons for KS2 (ages 7-11) that make up a complete unit covering the Ancient Greece topic. Each file contains a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint slides and printable activity sheets.</p>
<p>The planning pack covers the following lessons:</p>
<p>Who were the Ancient Greeks?<br />
Why were Athens and Sparta so different?<br />
What was Alexander the Great’s impact on the Greek empire?<br />
Why did a small Greek army win the Battle of Marathon?<br />
What were the Ancient Greek gods known for?<br />
What happened at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games?<br />
What were the Ancient Greek philosophers famous for?<br />
Did the events of the Trojan Horse story really happen?<br />
What was daily life like for children in Ancient Greece?<br />
How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today?</p>
<p>These lessons are written for KS2 and are aligned to the National Curriculum in the UK but can be easily adapted to other curriculums too. The lesson plans include differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.</p>
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<p>In this lesson, students learn about Greek mythological creatures. Twelve of the main Greek beasts, creatures and monsters are explored in listings, Centaur, Cerberus, Chimera, Cyclops, Harpy, Hydra, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Phoenix, Satyr and Siren. Each listing features an original illustration, facts and a short myth. The introduction includes interesting facts about ancient Greek mythological beasts including heroes, natural phenomena, animal attributes and powers. There is also a page exploring three constellations named after mythological beasts. Activities include differentiated reading response, create a monster activity, match the beast activity, constellation task cards and a printable memory card game.</p>
<p>Pages: 38 (including 7 answer sheets)</p>
<p>Contents:</p>
<ul>
<li>12 Illustrated Listings</li>
<li>Research a Beast Activity</li>
<li>Constellation Page</li>
<li>Constellation Task Cards</li>
<li>Star Charts</li>
<li>Create a Monster Activity</li>
<li>Match the Beast Activity</li>
<li>Printable Memory Card Game</li>
<li>Questions / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Reading Response)</li>
</ul>
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<p>All text and illustrations are by Christa Galloway, Primary Topic Shop.</p>
<p>Teach your students about fifteen of the main Greek gods and goddesses with illustrated listings, each with an original illustration, the Roman names, role, symbol, a myth and a combination of other fun facts. The introduction features interesting facts about the ancient Greek religion including sacrifices, temples, festivals and Mount Olympus. This PDF includes information handouts, a fact file activity, a printable memory card game, match the Roman and Greek god activity, and differentiated reading response worksheets.</p>
<p>Pages: 19 (including 3 answer sheets)</p>
<p>Contents:</p>
<ul>
<li>6 Information Handouts</li>
<li>Fact File activity</li>
<li>Printable Memory Card Game</li>
<li>Match the Roman and Greek God Activity</li>
<li>Reading Response / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Worksheets)</li>
</ul>
<p>A lesson focused on understanding what democracy is and how it grew in Ancient Athens. The lesson offers an immersive learning opportunity in which children take part in their own ‘census’ and then their own ‘vote’, however with the strict rules of the Ancient Greeks i.e. only those who were boys, lived in the local area all their lives, born in a certain city - contexts can be changed according to where you are teaching. The lesson then makes comparisons to what Democracy was actually like in Ancient Athens and there is an opportunity for children to take on the role of the assembly, the courts and the council.</p>
<p>Resources include a lesson plan, a powerpoint and voting cards.</p>
<p>Some images obtained from Google images on the powerpoint. Information researched with the help of Twinkl.</p>
<p>PowerPoint & Worksheet</p>
<p>Powerpoint includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Anicent Greek views on the soul - psyche</li>
<li>Views on Death / the Moirai / Fate</li>
<li>The journey to the underworld</li>
<li>topography of the underworld</li>
</ul>
<p>The worksheet: Task - text- students have to complete it, using missing words [based on the information provided in the powerpoint]</p>
<p>An original and humorous class assembly script based on the Ancient Greeks including such characters as Zeus, Hercules, Athena, Medusa and Odysseus! Includes around 20 speaking roles, although ‘CH’ (short for child) lines could be easily stretched to a class of 30.</p>
<p>Also includes all music files for appropriate class songs and character entrance music suggestions and a PowerPoint presentation slide if needed.</p>
<p>Your Assembly will include;</p>
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<li>Full script, suitable for up to 30 children</li>
<li>PowerPoint Presentation slide, to use as a background picture to the assembly</li>
<li>Sound effects/excerpts for character entrances (battle sounds, Chariots of fire excerpt, Zero to Hero excerpt, Friend in Me excerpt)</li>
<li>Assembly Songs for the class to sing;<br />
- Respect, Aretha Franklin<br />
- Go the Distance, from the Disney film ‘Hercules’</li>
</ul>
<p>PowerPoint- Lesson - Women in Ancient Greece</p>
<p>*Separate handout available - Pandora and the Jar [can be used as a primary source analysis/ task handout/ case study]</p>
Everything you need for a display on Ancient Greece.<br />
* Header (can be enlarged or printed as A3)<br />
* 12 posters with short descritptions<br />
* 12 Ancient Greece timeline cards (2 per page)<br />
* 60 Keywords (not all shown)
<p>A booklet collection of myths:</p>
<p>Pandora’s Box<br />
The Quest of Medusa’s Head<br />
Daedalus and Icarus<br />
Odysseus and Cyclops<br />
Theseus and the Minotaur</p>
<p>Includes a table for reading the myths and identifying the features. Great for helping to understand the structure/features of myths. <em>This is good for the exposure stage of the unit.</em></p>
<p>Another simple sheet designed for children to idetify the different elements of an Ancient Greek myth, looking more at the mythical creature. This is good for focusing on the mythical creature, before the children innovate or redesign.</p>
<p>4 lessons on Ancient Greece, examining the people, places and key events in Athens, Sparta, Troy and Macedonia. It covers philosophers, myths and Alexander the Great.<br />
Each power point contains general information, links to articles and/or videos, various activities that are quick but fun, and the occasional creative challenge. (Please note you will need Microsoft Power Point for some of the activities to work).<br />
These lessons are suitable for all ages and were created specifically for lock down: providing extra information and activities for children at home to help keep them busy and expand their learning.<br />
These lessons were not made to fit into a specific curriculum, but could be adapted for normal lessons.<br />
Accompanying kahoots:<br />
Ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta<br />
Ancient Greece: True or False</p>
<p>A lesson for KS2 about daily life for children in Ancient Greece, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.<br />
This lesson is part of our popular <a href="http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ancient-greeks-planning-12260791">Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2</a>.</p>
<p>Lesson: What was daily life like for children in Ancient Greece?<br />
This lesson is designed to help pupils to understand more about key areas of daily life for Ancient Greek children. Pupils will play a game to compare elements of their own lifestyles to life for different children in Ancient Greece. They will research information about food, education, clothing and entertainment and then design their own version of an Ancient Greek pull-along toy. At the end of the lesson, pupils will examine how four historical sources from Ancient Greece give more clues about daily life for children.</p>
<p>Objectives:<br />
To explore different areas of daily life for Ancient Greek children<br />
To find out about popular Ancient Greek toys<br />
To consider how we can know about what daily life was like so far in the past</p>
<p>You may also like:<br />
<a href="http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ancient-greeks-planning-12260791">Ancient Greeks Lessons Pack</a> for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic.</p>
<p>This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.</p>
<p>Ancient Greece was made up of independent city-states that shared a language and a religion but had different laws, governments and currency. This resource has reading passages about city-states, types of governments in Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta. The information is followed up with worksheets and activities.</p>
<p>Pages: 10 (including 3 answer sheets)</p>
<p>Contents:</p>
<ul>
<li>2 Information Handouts</li>
<li>Comprehension Questions</li>
<li>Multiple Choice Questions</li>
<li>Polis Expert Activity</li>
<li>Compare Athens and Sparta Activity</li>
<li>Make Your Own Polis Activity</li>
<li>Answer Sheets</li>
</ul>
<p>A unique set of activities that will engage your students focus, ignite their learning and strengthen your ANCIENT GREECE unit of work.</p>
<p>Spelling Board Game - Ancient Greece themed words<br />
2x A4 playing boards - join together. Enlarge to A3 for best results<br />
54 squares on the playing board.</p>
<p>24 Game words - In addition, use the Game Word Template option to create your own words for the Spelling Game</p>
<p>Game instructions</p>
<p>Game Life Cards</p>
<p><strong>Spelling Worksheet Template</strong> - Type in your own Daily Target word - 10 questions on each sheet. Edit the questions to suit your own targets</p>
<p>**Powerpoint Quiz **- Ancient Greece theme</p>
<p><strong>Homework Activities</strong> 30 minutes+ for each activity</p>
<p><strong>Crossword</strong></p>
<p><strong>Multiple Choice Quiz</strong></p>
<p><strong>Facts</strong></p>
<p><strong>Vocabulary list</strong>****</p>
<p><strong>Timeline</strong></p>
<p><strong>Creative Writing Story Starter</strong> - Adventure - Ancient Greece theme</p>
<p><strong>Comprehension worksheet</strong>- Ancient Greece theme</p>
<p><strong>Cloze Exercise worksheet</strong>- Ancient Greece theme</p>
<p><strong>Word Search worksheet</strong>- Ancient Greece Theme</p>
<p><strong>Certificate Template</strong> - edit and use as necessary</p>
<p><strong>Colouring Sheet</strong></p>
This resources are focused on learning about children's lives in the city states of Athens and Sparta in Ancient Greece and the Greek Gods and Goddesses. Feel free to chop and change to suit your class!
A ppt (including differentiated activity printouts) that gives an overview to where modern day Greece is located, the make up of the land and climate. It then includes major cities and reference points of ancient Greece. (All images/maps sourced via Google images) This is for KS 2 and has supported a Year 5 introduction to ancient Greece, alongside timeline lessons and more general introductions.
This reading activity can be used with years 4-6 depending on ability, either as part of an Ancient Greek unit or as a stand alone reading comprehension exercise. <br />
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It could be used toward the beginning of an Ancient Greek unit as it references the government, diet and invasions which may all be covered in more detail later.<br />
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Students start by reading through the information sheet including the basics of geography in Ancient Greece.<br />
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They then use dictionaries to look up geographical terms and write or draw definitions.<br />
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Finally, they answer one of two levels of differentiated questions about the reading. <br />
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An answer key and teacher guide are included.