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• 6.2: Literacy
• 6.3: Mathematics
• 6.4: Science
• 6.5: History
  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • 6.5.2: Famous Men, Women and Children (age 5-7)
  • 6.5.3: Find Out About The Seaside (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.5: Ancient Greece (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.6: Life in Tudor Times (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.7: Romans in Britain (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.8: Victorian Britain (age 7-11)
• 6.6: Geography
• 6.7: Religious Education
• 6.8: PSHE
• 6.9: Modern Foreign Language

History

Ancient Greece (age 7-11)

This engaging interactive CD-ROM for your whiteboard is packed with inspiring video clips, pictures, texts and activities, allowing pupils to develop key historical and literacy skills.

• Covers a wide range of aspects of life in Ancient Greece, from the language and going to school, to democracy and women’s lives, and looks at their influence today. TV clips and other resources make the CD-ROM exciting, engaging, and fun to use.
• Contains a wide variety of historical sources, stories and information sources for pupils to investigate.
• Interactive activities and tools ensure that children are active learners and develop a wide range of skills.
• Curriculum map and search engine makes it easy to link to the curriculum.
• Strong literacy links throughout, and writing activities for every unit give children a context for literacy work.
• A printed teacher’s book offers background information, suggestions for further activities, cross-curricular links and guidance for teachers about teaching the topic.

Contents:

Unit 1: Where and when was Ancient Greece?

• Greece today
• Where was Ancient Greece?
• When was Ancient Greece?

Unit 2: Ancient Greek language

• The Greek alphabet
• Words from Ancient Greece
• Writing in Ancient Greece
• It’s all Greek to me!

Unit 3: Going to school

• Going to school in Athens (1)
• Going to school in Athens (2)
• How do we know about schools in Athens?
• A boy’s life in Sparta
• Writing focus: School life then and now

Unit 4: Women’s lives

• Jobs for women
• Wealthy women’s lives
• Rich or poor?
• Spartan women
• Writing focus: A day in the life of an Ancient Greek woman

Unit 5: The Persian Wars

• The Persians are coming!
• Ancient Greek soldiers
• The Persians return
• The battle begins
• Writing focus: A journalist’s report from the battlefield

Unit 6: Democracy in Athens

• Democracy today
• Democracy in Ancient Greece
• Greek justice
• Ostracism

Unit 7: Religion

• Gods and goddesses
• The Parthenon (1)
• The Parthenon (2)
• The birth of Athene
• Writing focus: Building the Parthenon

Unit 8: Myths and Legends

• Theseus and the Minotaur (1)
• Theseus and the Minotaur (2)
• Fact or fiction?
• The Minotaur
• Writing focus: Theseus and the Minotaur

Unit 9: Going to the theatre

• A visit to Epidaurus
• A closer look
• Men in masks
• The chorus of birds

Unit 10: The ancient Olympic Games

• A visit to Olympia
• Throwing and jumping
• Combat sports and prizes
• Chariot races

Unit 11: The legacy of Ancient Greece

• Buildings all around us
• Ancient Greek thinkers: Archimedes
• Hippocrates and medicine
• Eratosthenes’ sieve
• Writing focus: The life of an Ancient Greek thinker

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