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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Stone Age
Investigate and record how different aspects of life in prehistoric Britain developed and changed during the Stone Age
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Stonehenge
Investigate and record some of the special reasons as to why people built different monuments during the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain from a range of materials
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Stone Age Farming
Explore and record how and why people in the Stone Age began to harvest crops and started farming animals in their settlements to support their growing communities
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Stone Age Tools
Identify, describe and illustrate how people in the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain produced and used different tools for a range of functions to support their communities