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Curated OER

Democracy Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research more about the Canadian parliamentary democratic system.
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Curated OER

Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: Those Ancient Greeks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare the treatment of men and women in Athens and Sparta. In this gender roles lesson, students research daily life in the Greek cities and create charts that compare the lives of women and men in both of the cities.
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Curated OER

An Ancient Odyssey

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify both the traditional myths and historical facts that are associated with geographical locations in ancient Greece. They create a "Travel to Ancient Greece" display to present their findings.
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Curated OER

Ancient Greece Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a unit of study on Ancient Greece. In this Ancient Greece lesson, students complete 16 sets of activities to learn about Ancient Greece. Students finish with a comprehensive test over the unit.
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Curated OER

Ancient Mediterranean Lands: Greece

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study maps and structures of Ancient Greece and realize how these structures impact times. In this structures lesson plan, students view the structures of how Ancient Greece was put together and discuss how these structures...
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Curated OER

Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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

A Trip Back in Time

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, through the following 10 lessons, develop an understanding of what life was like in Ancient Greece.
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Curated OER

Go For the Gold!: Ancient Olympics For Grades 4-8

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars create an ancient Greek newspaper with articles about the Olympics. They perform online research on the pentathalon. Students discuss present-day atheletes. They create a map of cities where the olympics were held.
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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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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. Learners will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that each employed....
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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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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: 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: 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: Peloponnesian War

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the Peloponnesian War of Ancient Greece fought between Sparta and Athens on this site.
Website
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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Tufts University

Tufts University: Peloponnesian War & Athenian Life

For Students 9th - 10th
An outline history with details on the various events of the war between Athens and Sparta. In addition, there is a section which examines the effects of the war on life in Athens.
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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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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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Boise State University

European History: The Peloponnesian War

For Students 9th - 10th
PowerPoint style site traces the beginnings of the Peloponnesian War, the Delian League, and the Archidamian War. Includes references and further reading.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: The a Etolian and Achaean Leagues, 229 b.c.

For Students 9th - 10th
Map showing the Greek Atolian and Achaean Leagues, from about 229 B.C. This map shows the Atolian confederation of Atolia, Oetaea, Phthiotis, Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, Cephallenia, and Elis, and the Achaean confederation of Achaia,...
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Other

Tulane University: Athenian Empire: 480 404 Bc: Timeline for Peloponnesian War

For Students 9th - 10th
A great timeline which gives an overview of the major events of the war. The timeline is broken down into three sections: The Archidamian War, the Peace of Nicias and the Decelean War.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Profile Bust of Thucydides

For Students 9th - 10th
Thucydides was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due...
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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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