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Travel Agent to the Ancient World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students persuade others to visit ancient times. In this ancient civilizations lesson, students participate in a webquest that requires them to encourage others to visit ancient Greece, ancient Israel, Ancient Rome, ancient China,...
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Scratch, Glue, Foil & Paint: Connecting Classics and the Art Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a reliquary using foam board, researching basic Greek and Roman architecture and basic construction methods. They record their research and information in an architectural journal.
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Modern Greece Fights For Ancient History

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the history of Ancient Greece and its society through Internet research. They investigate information about the Parthenon and its marble structures.
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Unearthing Ancient Greece

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners locate and analyze clues about ancient Greek life. In this ancient Greece lesson, students look at art, architecture, and artifacts to determine what was important to the Greeks and discover details about their culture. Learners...
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From Greece to Main Street

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars consider the influence of the Greeks on American architecture. For this American Greek Revival architecture lesson, students identify the attributes of architectural style as they compare the Parthenon with the Lincoln...
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Architecture and Democracy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders contrast and compare ancient Greece to the U.S.A.  In this Greek History lesson, 5th graders investigate the buildings and designs of ancient Greece, as well as their democracy and government.  Students answer...
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The Great Lighthouse at Alexandria

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read and research about Alexandria's Great Lighthouse. In this Greek architecture lesson, students create a timeline of events in Alexandria, and design a lighthouse. Students research lighthouses online and write a report.
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Neo-Classicism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Taking students from the origins of Neoclassical art, architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts to the "sunset" of the artistic movement, this slideshow provides ample infomation and examples of the art form. The slides...
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Primary Structural Forms: Post and Beam

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the three primary structural forms of architecture. They view photos, take a walking tour of their community, conduct strength tests of post, beam, and arch construction, and analyze the test results.
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Ancient Cultures - Greek

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the culture of the Greek with a focus on how they decorated their homes. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint presentation and complete an outline. To end the lesson, they draw their own sketch of a Greek chair using...
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New Class Museum

Lesson: French Revolution and Visual Language of Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Take a look at the French Revolution and neo-classic art, then compare it to current social issues and contemporary art. Kids analyze several pieces painted by Jacques-Louis David in regard to style and subject then compare them to...
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Symmetry in Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore symmetry.  In this geometry and scientific inquiry lesson, students design paper airplanes with middle line symmetry, as well as right, obtuse, and acute angles.  Young scholars measure the plane's angles...
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Constructing a Wardrobe

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare and contrast storage spaces of the past and present. They examine how furniture tells us how people lived, and work in pairs to design and construct a contemporary wardrobe that fits their personal needs.
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Ancient Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about ancient architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily. Includes an interactive plan of a 3D reconstruction of the Parthenon, and features the project page for this...
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Other

The Stoa: The Ancient City of Athens

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Ancient City of Athens" is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece), produced by university-level classics professor Kevin T. Glowacki. Includes many helpful resources besides...
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Other

Ancient Athens 3 D

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is devoted to documenting the buildings and monuments of Athens from the Mycenaean Period to about 1800 AD. Choose an era and read about the history and structures of that time period. The last section is a complete list of...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Ancient City

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comparing Greek and Roman architecture? Unearth new resources for teaching about the methods of development in these ancient cities.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Ancient Greece, 1000 b.c. 1 a.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that includes an interactive timeline of Greek art. Clicking on hyperlinks take you to a detailed discussion of the individual works of art. Included are photographs of Greek architecture. A great resource for the study...
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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
A browsable a-to-z library of clip art of ancient Greek architectural elements, such as caryatids, columns, temples, and floor plans, and of ancient Greek architectural sites, such as the Acropolis.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: City Dionysia: The Theaters

For Students 9th - 10th
Three-part resource on Greek theater that includes an overview, a roll-over diagram that highlights and defines key architectural elements of ancient Greek theaters, and examples of the influence of ancient Greek architecture on...
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University Press

University Press: Architecture in Ancient Greece

For Students 9th - 10th
A good basic reference on the main types of temple architecture in ancient Greece, including Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Also includes information on architecture, the Parthenon, and sculpture in ancient Greece, with accompanying links...
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Acropolis Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this link to the online home of the Acropolis Museum, which opened to the public in June 2009. Holdings include weathered originals and reproductions, freestanding works of sculpture, architectural fragments, and other antiquities...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Thematic Essays: Architecture in Ancient Greece

For Students 9th - 10th
Short thematic essay on the architecture of ancient Greece touches on a number of different aspects of Greek architecture, including the Greek architectural orders, the role of the architect, the quarrying of stone, and building practices.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek Art: Architecture in Ancient Greece

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses architecture in Ancient Greece.

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