Ancient Greeks - A Lasting Legacy - Lesson!

This engaging and purposeful lesson is the sixth and final lesson in a series of lessons in which children develop an in-depth understanding of Ancient Greece. There is a particular focus on the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and how these have influenced the world.

In this lesson, children consider how modern society has been influenced by the achievements of the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, they:
-Understand how Ancient Greek discovery and learning has impacted the world;
-Understand how Ancient Greek democracy and law has impacted the world.
-Understand how Ancient Greek sport, culture and religion has impacted the world.

The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey:
-Understanding the meaning of the key concept ‘legacy.’
-Considering Greek achievements in each of the key areas (discovery and learning, democracy and law, and sport, culture and religion) and then linking these achievements to what is seen in the modern world;
-Using clear guidance and a structure strip (provided) based on what they have learnt to form a clear, organised response to the enquiry question: 'How have Ancient Greek achievements influenced the world?
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective, and considering the questions that they have for further learning.

Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (24 slides), which contains all of the information needed to teach the lesson and the structure strip for the main enquiry-response activity (provided in both Word and PDF).

In the past, I have used this lesson with children in lower KS2 (years 3 and 4), however this was an advanced class and these resources could easily be used with upper KS2. The key learning is aligned with KS2 curriculum expectations for history. All images are licensed for commercial use.