Ancient Greeks - Introduction to Ancient Greece Lesson!

This engaging and purposeful lesson is the first 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 learn and understand foundation information about the Ancient Greeks. In particular, they:
-Learn when and where the Ancient Greeks lived, and learn basic facts about their civilization;
-Understand and order the major Ancient Greek periods chronologically.
-Understand and order different significant events in throughout the Ancient Greek era.

The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey:
-Knowledge recall of basic history skills and key terms;
-Defining what the Ancient Greek era was, and understanding exactly where and when the Ancient Greeks lived.
-Connecting this learning with what was happening across the world at the time;
-Considering what enabled the Ancient Greeks to be powerful and successful;
-Following clear guidance to understand and order the major Ancient Greek periods.
-Placing key events from the Ancient Greek period on their own timelines (again, clear and comprehensive guidance for this is given);
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective.

Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (23 slides), which contains all of the information needed to teach the lesson, and the information cards to be stuck onto the timeline -provided in both Word and PDF format.

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 also. The key learning is aligned with KS2 curriculum expectations for history. All images are licensed for commercial use.