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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Ancient Greece

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 13 Grade-Leveled texts (7-11) on the topic Ancient Greece. How much can we credit today's art, philosophy, and democracy, among other fields of study, to Ancient Greece? Explore Ancient Greece and discover how the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Greco Roman

For Students 9th - 10th
Instead of rule by a single person, Athens and Rome developed governments with widespread participation by male elites, which lasted about 170 years in Athens and about 480 years in Rome. This article discusses the rise of the Greek and...
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Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Ancient Greek History

For Students 9th - 10th
Access any of the twenty-four lectures in a university-level course in ancient Greek history up to the time of Alexander. Lectures available in audio, video, or text format. With coverage of Bronze Age Greece, the Persian Wars, the rise...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Comparing Athens and Sparta

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce the ideas of limited and unlimited government with a lesson on the government styles in Ancient Greece. Students will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that each employed....
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Greek Alphabet and Letters

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website, students learn about the Greek Alphabet of Ancient Greece. They can study the twenty-four letters plus numbers and mathematical symbols.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Glossary and Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the glossary and terms of Ancient Greece on this site. Words such as acropolis, assembly, democracy, hoplite, and more.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Sparta

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the city of Sparta from Ancient Greece on this site. Study this warrior society where all male citizens were soldiers.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Peloponnesian War

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the Peloponnesian War of Ancient Greece fought between Sparta and Athens on this site.
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Lin and Don Donn

Ancient Greece for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
This page examines education for boys and girls in Sparta, Athens and other Greek cities. It takes the form of an extended piece of writing, with links to further information. It includes information on music and poetry. There are sound...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Homer's Iliad

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about Homer's Iliad from Ancient Greece on this site. Explore an epic poem about the Trojan War and the hero Achilles.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Persian Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
A website about the Persians Wars of Ancient Greece fought between Persia and the Greek city-states.
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Other

Metis: Catalog of Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
A very large collection of interactive photographs of archaelogical sites in Greece and Turkey. Users can pan around the sites, zoom in for closer looks, or click on hot spots to access views of individual elements of the scenes. Some...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: History: Ancient Greece for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the civilization of Ancient Greece on this site. The birth of democracy, philosophy, and science as well as Athens and Sparta.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Greece History and Timeline Overview

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the country of Greece including ancient Greece, Athens, Sparta, democracy, Alexander the Great, Roman rule, the Ottoman Empire, independence, and current events.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Rise of Greek City States: Athens Versus Sparta

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with the "The Rise of Greek City-States: Athens Versus Sparta" by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Curated OER

Ancient Greece

For Students 3rd - 5th
Snaith Primary School tells the story of ancient Greece through the eyes of two fictional families, one from Sparta and one from Athens. The exploration begins with the start of the Peloponnesian War, providing an entertaining and...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Zeus

For Students 9th - 10th
A site about the god Zeus from Greek Mythology. Learn about the king of the gods ruled Mount Olympus and threw lighting bolts.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Hercules

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site, learn about a hero of Greek Mythology and son of the god Zeus named Hercules.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Monsters and Creatures of Greek Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the monsters and creatures of Greek Mythology such as Medusa, Typhon, the furies, hydra, sirens, satyrs, and cyclop on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Homer's Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about an epic poem about the hero Odysseus and his journey home on this site. Read more information about Homer's Odyssey here.
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Vancouver Island University

Malaspina University: Comparison of Sparta and Athens

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare the oligarchy of Sparta and the democracy of Athens, and the residents of both city-states.
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Boise State University

Boise State University: The Peloponnesian War: The Sicilian Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Sicilian Expedition by checking out this page. Find out how Ancient Greece developed and conquered foreign lands.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains s biography of Aristotle. Learn about One of the philosophers of Ancient Greece.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Pericles

For Students 9th - 10th
Study about the leader of Athens during its golden age of Ancient Greece named Pericles on this site.