Lesson Three – Athens Life

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to compose and produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life about living in a Greek city state in the past.

The class can write reports describing the lives of the Athenians in the past to create a secondary historical source describing some of the things that happened in the past.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to compose and produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life about living in a Greek city state in the past

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the lives of the Ancient Greeks based on how the city of Athens was formed and established in the past and a template to structure and format the text for an audio clip about an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state.

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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