Ancient Greece Legacy

This history scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate the development of the Ancient Greek civilization including architecture, education and government and explore how these features impact the modern world. The class can record the importance of Ancient Greek influences on modern communities.

Investigate the growth and development of the Ancient Greek civilization including architecture, education and government and explore how these features impact the modern world

Lesson One : Architecture

Identify, describe and compare examples of some modern, Victorian and Ancient Greek construction styles that were used for a range of different types of buildings

Lesson Two : Education

Investigate and compare how education was conducted differently for girls and boys in the Ancient Greece civilization and explore how it impacts schooling today

Lesson Three : Alphabet

Practise writing and presenting a selection of different words using some of the special letters from the Greek alphabet used in ancient city states

Lesson Four : Thinkers and Philosophers

Explore and record information about some of the significant leaders from Ancient Greece who have had an impact on the modern world

Lesson Five : Government

Explore and illustrate some of the different styles of Ancient Greek government that are still used in some countries around the modern world today

Lesson Six : Elgin Marbles

Investigate how to debate the collection and use of some of the different historical artefacts that were taken from Ancient Greece by other countries in the past

  • Shape Locations

    Shape Locations

    Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.

  • Shape Symmetry

    Shape Symmetry

    Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties

  • School Classrooms

    School Classrooms

    Explain and record how to link pairs of sentence clauses about things that might happen in a school classroom using a range of matching conjunctions

  • Animal Encyclopaedia

    Animal Encyclopaedia

    Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world