Lesson Two – Education

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and compare how education was conducted differently for girls and boys in the Ancient Greece civilization and explore how it impacts schooling today.
The class can create a pot illustration and write an explanation to say how education in Ancient Greece was the same or different than life in schools today.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and compare how education was conducted differently for girls and boys in the Ancient Greece civilization and explore how it impacts schooling today
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to investigate and compare how education was conducted differently for girls and boys in Ancient Greece and a template to create the design for a pot showing how boys or girls were educated in Ancient Greece in comparison to schooling today.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare how education was conducted differently for girls and boys in Ancient Greece and how it impacts schooling today.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate the growth and development of the Ancient Greek civilization including architecture, education and government and explore how these features impact the modern world. 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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