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Fun Ancient Greece Homeschool Unit Study and Lapbook

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Ancient Greece Homeschool Unit Study

About 2,400 years ago ancient buildings in Greece were shining marble temples dedicated to the gods of Mount Olympus. Myths were part of the every day of Greeks. We know about these stories because they have been passed down to us.  Also there is much Greek art that has survived to our day.

But why study Ancient Greece?

Greece has often been called the “birthplace” of Western civilization” because many of their thoughts about science, man, and politics are studied today and respected.

Fun Ancient Greece Homeschool Unit Study and Lapbook

Ancient Greece was a world that was dominated by man. At that time though they were not known as Greeks, but “Hellas”. Individually they were known as “Helenes.”

Also, Ancient Greece was really two civilizations separated by a period of three or four hundred years known as the dark ages.

The first period is called the Mycenaean civilization and was from 1600 B.C. to close to 1100 B.C. The second period started about 800 B.C. and this was when their art, written language and architecture were revived.

Greeks - Masters of the Seas

In the 5th B.C.E., Greek Colonies stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to the Black Sea.

There are two geographic facts to explain why they were so spread out. 1)Their land is very mountainous and rocky with most of the fertile or farmland in only a few valleys and along the sea coast. 2) Nearly all of Greece was no more than one or two day's travel from the sea. The sea became Greece's source of power and greatness.

Books to use:

Seven Wonder of the Ancient World - why put this here?

Because this list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was created by the Greek, we felt it important to place them here. Also, it's not surprising that the list included mostly Greek structures. {5 of the 7 wonders are credited to the Greeks.}

Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria
7_seven_ancient_wonders_Mausoleum_of_Halicarnassus
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus 
7_seven_ancient_wonders_Statue_of_Zeus
 Statue of Zeus
7_seven_ancient_wonders_Temple_of_artemis

Temple of Artemis   

normal_7_seven_ancient_wonders_Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Pyramids of Giza

Ancient Greece Lapbook

Herodotus and Thucydides

During the fifth century B.C.,  Herodotus and Thucydides, invented what we call today historical writing. Herodotus' account of Greece's wars with Persia earned him the nickname the Father of History. Thucydides wrote a more serious, and more factual, record of the later wars between Athens and Sparta.

Latitude and Longitude

The Greeks did not invent maps but they did come up with ideas to make maps more useful. Claudius Ptolemy, the last of the great Greek mapmakers, compiled an eight-volume Geography around A.D. 150.

Latitude: This measures distance north or south of the equator.

Longitude: This measures distance east or west of the prime meridian. The prime meridian is an imaginary line that runs from pole to pole and passes through Greenwich, England.

For 10th Grade

Daily Life in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greeks saw themselves as part of a household. The household included  immediate family members, but also distant relatives and slaves all living under the same roof. The head of the household was the oldest male.

Vocabulary Words

  • polis - The Greek word for city. Many words we have today come from this word. {police and politics}
  • democracy - The people of Athens invented this type of government which is political rule by the people.
  • city-states - Independent states ruled from one central city.
  • Acropolis - A fortress on a hill in Athens with strong stone walls enclosing temples.
  • Mount Olympus - The highest mountain in Greece. The Greeks believe the gods and goddesses lived forever on top of the mountain and looked down on them.

Lapbook Layout

Ancient Greece Lapbook | Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

 Ancient Greece Covers/Pieces to Decorate Lapbook or Notebook Page

Ancienct Greece Cover 2 for Ancient Greece Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Ancienct-Greece-Cover-2.pdf (6624 downloads)
Ancient Greece Cover 3 for Ancient Greece Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Ancient-Greece-Cover-3.pdf (5259 downloads)
Also, we love, love the hands-on ideas and unit study by Home School in the Woods. You can study Ancient Greece so many times and come away with many different angles. So be sure to check out their hands-on ideas too.
Ancient Greece Cover 1 for Ancient Greece Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Ancient-Greece-Cover-1.pdf (5070 downloads)
Greece its Geography Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Greece-its-Geography.pdf (7004 downloads)

Minibooks

7 Wonders of the Ancient World minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
7-Wonders-of-the-Ancient-World.pdf (5598 downloads)
Daily Life in Ancient Greece Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Daily-Life.pdf (5787 downloads)
Greek Thinkers Ancient Greece Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Greek-Thinkers.pdf (4911 downloads)
Vase Painting Minibook Ancient Greece @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Vase-Painting.pdf (4600 downloads)

Latitude and Longitude by the Ancient Greeks Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

  Latitude-and-Longitude-by-the-Greeks.pdf (4550 downloads)

Greek Vocabulary Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Greek-Vocabulary.pdf (5084 downloads)  

Ancient Greek Parthenon minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Parthenon.pdf (5138 downloads)

Ancient Greece Notebooking Pages

Tortoise-and-the-Hare-NB.pdf (3336 downloads)
Ancient-Greece-NB-Page.pdf (3600 downloads)

7-Wonders-NB-Pages.pdf (3661 downloads) Color version  
  7-Wonders-NB-Pages-BW.pdf (3499 downloads) Black and white version

Ancient-Greece-NB-Page1.pdf (3204 downloads)
Ancient-Greece-NB-BW-Page.pdf (3404 downloads)

Ancient Greece Prek Unit Study

Prek K Unit containing 20 printables.

Download here PreK Unit Study for Greece

Some of the Ancient Greece resources we used and like:

Drawing History Ancient Greece       Rainbow Horizons Ancient Greece

{We got both resources second hand and were actually pleased with them}

Fun Ancient Greece Homeschool Unit Study and Lapbook

Other links here you'll like and other resources;

  • 9 EASY and Fun Hands-on Ancient Greece Kids Activities
  • Hands-On Ancient Greece Study: Politics and Pottery
  • Free Ancient Greece Lapbook
  • Free Ancient Greece Go Fish Game – Ancient Greece Unit Study
  • Ancient Civilizations Unit Study and Lapbook
  • Ancient Civilizations II Unit Study and Lapbook

Homeschool Share Free Greece Lapbook 49 Page Download

25 Page Download from the British Museum gives a lot of nice background information on Ancient Greece.

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Comments

  1. Annette says

    April 24, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    Thank you for the resources! The 7 wonders of the ancient world were just what I needed!

    Reply
    • Tina Robertson says

      April 27, 2019 at 10:08 am

      You’re very welcome Annette. Glad to have you here♥♥

      Reply
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