Lesson Two – City of Athens

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and describe the lives of people living in an Ancient Greek city state in the past by using a range of different primary sources.

The class can record and caption illustrations on pots to show one aspect of daily life in Athens in the past to explain how it can reveal culture and traditions in Ancient Greece.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe the lives of people living in an Ancient Greek city state in the past by using a range of different primary sources

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe what a range of different historical artefacts can reveal about the past, a table display card to investigate and record aspects of daily life in Ancient Greece using a primary source and a template to create an example of an Ancient Greek pot to illustrate an aspect of daily life in Ancient Greece.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the lives of people living in an Ancient Greek city state using a range of different primary sources.

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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