Ancient Greeks: 21 detailed lesson plans and resources

This product explores the history, culture, geography, everyday life and legacy of the Ancient Greeks on our lives today. Through the 21 lesson plans, resources, web links and Word Root Card Game, your students will have a clear understanding of the life, times and legacy of the Ancient Greeks by the end of the unit.

This product includes the following resources:

• 21 detailed lessons plans, each includes the session number, the main aims of the lesson, detailed activity details and web links to a wide range of videos to support learning and teaching, class organisation, detailed success criteria and outcomes.
• Lesson resources including: Vocabulary Grid to explore different types of ruling styles (Democracy, Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Monarchy etc)
• Key Words for classroom display
• Timeline of historical periods to place Ancient Greeks into a World History context
• Statement cards comparing different Greek states
• Greek Root Words and their meaning - Card Game: "I have...Who has..?" (24 cards) Full instructions and Answer Key included for the game.

Each of the lesson plans focus on a different elements of Ancient Greek history and the legacy it has created:

Lesson 1) Who were the Greeks? When and where did they live? Links with other periods

Lesson 2) Where is Greece and what is it like? How is it different and how is it the same from where we live?

Lesson 3) Styles of leadership

Lesson 4) Human Rights

Lesson 5) Timeline construction

Lesson 6 and 7) Athens and Sparta - compare the two city states

Lesson 8) Power in Ancient Greece

Lesson 9 and 10) Greek wars

Lesson 11 and 12) The Battle of Marathon

Lesson 13) Greek Architecture - The Acropolis and Parthenon

Lesson 14) Theaters

Lesson 15) Olympic Games

Lesson 16) Legacy of language

Lesson 17) Greek Alphabet

Lesson 18) Summarize learning

Lesson 19 and 20) End of unit project - putting into practice what has been learnt

Each lesson plan has links to the resources - images are placed within the plans to make identification easy - and these can be photocopied to provide one for each student. Full instructions are also included for the Word Card Game, and enough cards for 24 students to play in one game, or as dominoes, paired activity or a Literacy Center Challenge.

Our students have enjoyed this unit plan, the resources and the Word Card Game - which we still play now after the project has been completed. We hope that your students enjoy this project pack as much as ours.

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