Lesson Four – Medals and Prizes
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and present facts and information about how competitors were rewarded in the modern and ancient games when winning different sports and events.
The class can produce and describe some model prizes and rewards as historical artefacts to illustrate the importance of the games in Ancient Greece in the past.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and present facts and information about how competitors were rewarded in the modern and ancient games when winning different sports and events
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how competitors were rewarded in the modern and ancient games with medals and prizes and a template to select and record information about one of the sports that features in the modern and ancient games.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and present information about how competitors were rewarded in the modern and ancient games.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore the development of the Olympic Games that began during the history of Ancient Greece and make comparisons with modern competitions. 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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