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Time Warp Trio

My Big Fat Greek Olympics

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
The Olympic Games are indeed a significant and far-reaching cultural component in our international community today, but from where do they originate? Where do our traditions stem from, and how do we choose the sports that constitute...
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Curated OER

Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the gender equality of past civilizations. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use history books to determine which of the ancient Greek City States was the most equitable concerning gender....
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Curated OER

An Ancient Greek and Roman Festival

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders label a map of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and do a written report on one element of these two cultures. They participate in discussions of food, farming, daily life and government (among others). Students use the...
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Curated OER

Democracy Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research more about the Canadian parliamentary democratic system.
Handout
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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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....
Unit Plan
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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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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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...
Article
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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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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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: 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.
Handout
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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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.
Handout
Vancouver Island University

Malaspina University: Introductory Note on Classical Greece

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough description of topics in Classical Greece provided for by the Malaspina University.
Online Course
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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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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Curated OER

Etc: Greece in the Peloponnesian War, 431 404 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Greece and Asia Minor during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), color-coded to show the territories of Athens, Sparta, and their allies.
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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.
Website
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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