Lesson One – Historical Artefacts

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and describe the lives of the Ancient Greeks by examining a range of artefacts that historians have discovered from the past.
The class can try and identify different aspects of the past Ancient Greek civilization using artefacts and sequence them with other time periods in history.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and describe the lives of the Ancient Greeks by examining a range of artefacts that historians have discovered from the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe what different historical artefacts can reveal about the past and table display cards to research historical artefacts from Ancient Greece to identify what they can reveal about the past.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the lives of the Ancient Greeks by examining a range of historical artefacts from the past.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate the growth and development of Ancient Greece by researching daily life in different city states that formed the civilization in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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