Lesson

1

KeyQuestion:

Who were theAncient Greeks?

Curricularlinks

Formative assessment. Follow with a classdiscussion about Greece. Using the atlases children find Greece ona map of Europe. Using the keys, what do children notice about thecountry (climate, population, physical features). Children plotGreece on a world map and plan a route from the UK to Greece.Children make notes for a fact file about Greece climate,settlement, population, trade etc.

Geography map skills

Literacy fact file

Lesson

2

KeyQuestion:

Why were Greekfighters so powerful?

Teaching inputabout why the Greeks needed an army & a navy. Ch. look at ancientGreek pottery depicting soldiers fighting. What can they gleanfrom the pictures? Discuss the armour the soldiers are wearing andthe weapons they are carrying.

Activity

Children usebooks to research aspects of a Greek soldiers armour. Share.Children annotate a sketch of a Greek hoplite & colour accuratelybased on the materials the armour was made of.

Linkswith Art clay work & drawing skills.

English - research skills - speaking &listening skills.

Lesson

3

KeyQuestion:

Why were AncientGreeks fighting ships so effective?

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Recap: whyancient Greeks had navies and developed effective fighting ships.What do children notice about the ships? Teaching input aboutGreek fighting ships.

Activity

Children usesources to research the Greeks & ships. Share information found.Children annotate a sketch of an ancient Greek fighting ship andcolour accurately based on the materials the ships were madeof.

English -research skills - & speaking & listening skills.

Science &materials.

Lesson

4

KeyQuestion:

When did theAncient Greeks live?

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Teaching input.Shared work on building a timeline of Ancient Greeks from the DarkAges through to Classical Greece.

Activity

Children separatethe Ancient Greeks into key periods of time and name these.

Links with Maths timelines & negative numberlines.

Lesson

5

KeyQuestion:

What are thesimilarities between the Ancient Greeks alphabet & ourown?

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Teaching input.Many letters that we use today come from the Ancient Greeksalphabet. Show children the Greek alphabet and share the soundswith them. Children identify which are the same and which aredifferent. Which letters and sounds are missing?

Activity

Children writetheir names using Greek script and illustrate using Greekpatterns. Children producetheir names in Greek using a 3D effect drawingtechnique. Extension:children write a secret message to a friend using Greek script.Their friend then decodes the message.

Linkswith English origin of letters.

Art/DTlink children produce their names in Greek using a 3D effectdrawing technique.

Lesson

6

KeyQuestion:

Which Englishwords have their origin in the Ancient Greek language?

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Teaching input.Many words that we use today come from Ancient Greek words. Theyhave been made from parts of Greek words, called language roots.Using a dictionary lots of English words can be found that haveGreek roots. Activity what do children think the word historymeans. (Gk historia finding out, narrative; historlearned, wise man) How can we find out the meaning of words?Children investigate the meaning of other school subjects. Discusswith the children what it tells them about the ancient Greeks ifmathematics, geography and technology were originally Greekwords.

Activity

Children use adictionary to find the meaning of a variety of words with Greekroots. Children explore prefixes and suffixes with Greek originseg. geo, -ology, photo-, phon-, -phobia.

Links withEnglish root words.

Lesson

7

KeyQuestion:

Who did theGreeks worship and why? How does this differ from modernreligions?

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Teachinginput about the gods and goddesses and where they lived. Explainthat the Greeks worshipped many gods and goddesses. The idea ofOne God came later. The Greeks gods and goddesses were in chargeof feelings like love and things like the sea, the Earth & theSun. Locate Mount Olympus on a map. Identify the main gods andgoddesses.

Activities

Children locateMount Olympus on a map. Children design a symbol for eachgod/goddess and draw it in a box on an Olympian family tree.Children choose a god/goddess that they like best and find out asmuch as they can about them to produce a fact file. Match thevase to the god.

Linkswith RE compare the worship of many gods with the idea ofworshipping One God.

Factfile links with English.

Lesson

8

KeyQuestion:

How do we knowabout the Ancient Greeks?

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Teacher leddiscussion: Ask children how they think historians know so muchabout the Ancient Greeks. Stories were passed on through word ofmouth until they were eventually written down, some ruins ofbuildings still remain, pottery and fragments have been leftbehind. Building on earlier lessons explain that today we will bedeveloping our understanding of what the pottery from ancient timesand what this tells us about how Greeks lived. This informationhelps us to understand Greek myths and legends, what the Greeksliked to eat, how the Olympic games started, and many other thingsabout the Greeks. Look at photos and illustrations of a range ofpottery what can children glean from what they see?

Activity

Childrenlook at pottery and decide what this tells them about differentaspects of the Ancient Greeks.

Lesson

9

KeyQuestion:

What happened atthe Battle of Marathon?

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Explain that wewill be learning about the battle of Marathon so that we can writea news report. Today the children will be re-enacting the events.Teaching input about the Battle of Marathon. Explain that this iswhere the modern day Marathon gets its name from.

Activity

Children re-enactthe Battle of Marathon watched by the rest of the class. Somechildren will be reporters making key notes and using palms tofilm freeze frames of battle events. Others will take part inthe action to show the background to what happened and the eventsof the battle itself.

Children write anews report about the Battle of Marathon.

English& drama link with re-enactment & news report.

Lesson

10

KeyQuestion:

How do the modernOlympic Games compare with the Ancient Olympic Games?

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Discuss with thechildren what they know about the Olympic games. (Why theyreheld, how often, who takes part and how they prepare. Also whatare the different events and what do the winners receive. Whowatches them?)

Activity

Children find outabout the ancient Olympic games using the questions above tostructure their enquiry. Children record their findings on a Venndiagram or two-column grid with the columns labelled ancient andmodern and the rows labelled Location, Reason for games,Events etc.

Linkswith PE & Geography

Lesson

11

KeyQuestion:

How does growingup in Ancient Greek times compare with growing uptoday?

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Teaching inputabout the life of a Spartan children and Athenian children.Volunteers from the class mime and freeze frame key aspects ofSpartan and Athenian life as these are described by theTeacher.

Explain thatSpartan boys, for example, were sent away at 7 to boot camp stylebarracks where they learned to steal their food from local farmers,bully younger boys, run, wrestle and sleep out in the cold. Thetraining was aimed at making them into fierce warriors.

Children findfurther details from Greek text books. Athenian boys played gameswe would recognise, went to school and were raised as citizens ofthe future. Who would the children prefer to have been? Why?What must it have felt like to be a Spartan boy?

Activity

Children chooseto write a diary as an Athenian boy/girl OR as a Spartan boy/girlbringing to life in vivid detail what life must have been like inancient times.

Linkswith English diary writing & drama

PHSE empathy, gender roles

Lesson

11

KeyQuestion:

How does schoolin Ancient Greek times compare with school today?

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Discuss with thechildren what school is like today (what they study, where schoolis, what equipment they use, how long they will be at school beforethey leave etc.) Explain that they will be using informationsources to investigate and compare Greek education with schoolstoday.

Activity

Children find outabout education in ancient Greek times. They use a range ofsources and produce a Venn diagram comparing what they have foundwith their experience of school today.

PHSE

Maths Venn diagram

Lesson

12 & 13

KeyQuestion:

What was thetheatre like in Ancient times?

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Teaching inputabout the Greek theatre, the famous playwrights and the role of thechorus. Who went to the theatre? What was the theatre like? Whatwere the plays about

Activity

Childrenwrite and perform a play script from a choice of modern and ancientscenarios. Introduce children to the possible scenario choicesand discuss. Choices include an Ancient Greek myth. The playscripts should have the appropriate layout and signal stagedirections in brackets.

Teachinginput.

Activity

Childrenperform their play scenarios to the class. Class provide feedbackon the performances emphasise the importance of specificfeedback. Children comment on two things they liked and somethingwhich could be improved.

Linkwith Art Greek masks

Linkwith English drama & speaking & listening.

Lesson

14

KeyQuestion:

What were thefeatures of Ancient Greek buildings?

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Teaching input onancient Greek architectural features. Children identify featureseg. column, capitals in series of pictures. Discusswhy these features have been used so widely. Discuss the use ofproportion & the Golden Rectangle. Show children some famousbuildings from modern times can they identify some features whichthese share with the Ancient Greek buildings? Children understandthat Greek architectural ideas have been prized by people living inrecent times.

Activity
Explain that children will be using sources to make a collection oflocal and national buildings that show some classical featuresfor a montage. Show example of a montage & explain layeringtechnique and the use of lettering for effect.

Lesson

15 -20

KeyQuestion:

What is thelegacy of the Ancient Greeks?

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Projects

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Teaching input:introduce the legacy projects. Discuss learning skills agreewith class their definitions for these key works andphrases.

Activities

Over a series oflessons, children will work in teams of three or four toproduce:

• A writtenproject about one aspect of the Ancient Greeks;
• A session forour Greek day;
• A PowerPointpresentation sharing with the class what they have learned aboutthe aspect of Greek life they have researched.

Project1:

The OlympicGames

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Mapwork where it all started countries taking part in present dayOlympic Games;

  Comparisonpresent day Games with original;

  Events;

  Plan an in schoolOlympic Games;

  Profile of aGreek god or goddess;

  Design & make amedal or laurel for the Olympics;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

PE

Geography

Project2:

Greek food &diet

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Greek food savory & sweet;

  Where the Greeksgot their food from;

  Preparation,presentation;

  Plan a Greekfeast (menu cards) - budget & shop for same;

  Evaluatehealthiness of the diet;

  Make tastersquestionnaire poss. make a database of responses;

  Design & makeGreek style container or plate using clay;

  Profile ofBacchus the god of wine;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

Science

Geography

FoodTechnology

Project3:

Greekclothes

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Materials usedand where the Greeks would have got them from;

  Mapwork;

  Clothing worn bysoldiers;

  Design & helpmake a chiton, tunic and himation;

  Design & make apiece of Greek-style jewellery eg. fastener;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report..

English

DT

Geography

Project4:

Greekeducation

  Boys & girlssimilarities & differences;

  Subjectsstudied;

  Famousphilosophers studied prepare a profile;

  Design & make waxscratchers & wooden tablets;

  Plan a classroomsession for all children to experience what it was like in Greektimes;

  Comparisonschools then and schools today;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

DT

Project5:

Greekreligion

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Mapwork places in Greece that the gods & goddesses are associatedwith eg. Athena Athens, Apollo Delphi

  Life sizesculpture & temple front;

  Ceremonies research & write a procedure which could be followed in are-enactment;

  Offerings;

  Study/profile ofa god or goddess;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

Geography

Art &sculpture

PHSE

Project6:

Democracy &government

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Mapwork birthplace & spread of democracy;

  Study famousphilosophers & prepare a profile of one;

  Plan & organise adebate;

  Compare a Greekdemocracy (Athens) with Britain;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

Speaking &Listening

Geography

Project7:

Growing up inGreece

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Boys & girls similarities & differences including education;

  Toys &games;

  Design/makepieces for an ancient Greek game eg. knucklebones;

  Plan a sessionwhere the class can try out some of the games & toysresearched;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

DT

Project8

Greektheatre

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Mapwork birthplaces of famous ancient playwrights;

  Comparisonpresent day theatre with Ancient Greek amphitheatres;

  Adapt & performpart of a Greek play eg. The Frogs by Aristophanes;

  Profile of aGreek playwright;

  Design & make aGreek mask;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

Art

Geography

Project9

Greekarchitecture

  Research books,photographs of pottery, internet, letters;

  Mapwork famous archaeological sites;

  Influence ofGreek architecture on modern building designs;

  Make a templefrontage;

  Techniques andmaterials used for build;

  Assessment:learning skills, presentation & report.

English

Art

Geography

DT