Key Stage Two : History : Ancient Greece Daily Life : Lesson Three – Athens Life


This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state. The class can compose reports describing lives of Athenians in the past to create a secondary historical source describing the past.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state

Learning Objectives

Know characteristic features of past non-European societies. Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

Learning Outcomes

I can explain how people lived in an Ancient Greek city state. I can present information that has been collected from historical sources.

Athens Life

Teaching sequence to help the children produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state

Naming of Athens

Shared reading text to help the children identify and describe the lives of the Ancient Greeks based on how the city of Athens was formed and established in the past

Athens Life

Template to help the children structure and format the text for an audio clip about an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state

Athens Life

Interactive activity to help the children produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to produce a range of history sound clips to describe an aspect of daily life living in a Greek city state

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