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From Greek life to maps and images of pottery. You'll find information on Greek villages and towns, wars, daily life and dress - even the Olympic games. Discover this fabulous topic through interactive whiteboard resources.
360 degree panoramas of modern day Athens
Visit in a new windowAn amazing insight into historic buildings and spaces in and around Athens.
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Ancient Greeks British Museum
Visit in a new windowTopics cover Everyday life, acropolis, Athens, festivals and games, geography, gods and goddesses, learning and school, Sparta, time and war. Fabulous images from the British Museum.
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Anglia Campus mini-site
Visit in a new windowA great site - gives you a child friendly passage of text and usually a picture. Lots of topics covered from "Greek women" to "in the country." This won't fill a whole lesson, but it will give you short passages to set the scene.
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Arts, Wars and Myths
Visit in a new windowWar, Arts and Myths are covered in this site. Produced by Primary school children so good for your class to compare with more professional resources. Can we trust it?
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BBC mini-site
Visit in a new windowTopics include Olympia, Corinth and Athens. We love the timeline.
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Clip Art
Visit in a new windowReasonable collection free for you to copy/paste into SMART Notebook, ActivPrimary etc.
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Greek topic introduction
Visit in a new windowThe activity shown below is designed to help introduce the topic of the ancient Greeks. It looks at some of the words associated with the passing of time and Greek life.
Click on the small 'The Greeks' title above the image to get started.
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Heracles
Visit in a new windowAll you need to know about Heracles. His labours pale into insignificance compared to running Topic Box. Show me the stables any day of the week! Lovely lot of information here, ties in nicely with Y5 Literacy.
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Images of Greeks and Romans
Visit in a new windowGreat clip-art for any Greek or Roman style project.
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Legacy of the Greeks
Visit in a new windowAnother top class powerpoint presentation - spot on. A powerpoint file that may also be opened using OpenOffice or Smart Notebook version 9.5.
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NWNET Greeks presentation
Visit in a new windowA fantastic overview for the topic "Who were the ancient Greeks?". A powerpoint file that may also be opened using OpenOffice or Smart Notebook version 9.5.
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Olympic Games
Visit in a new windowA great walk through of each stage of the ancient Olympic games.
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Olympic Games
Visit in a new windowIncludes the history of the games and the games today. Heavy going text for many KS2 pupils but would be useful for independent work by your most able students.
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Overview of Six Key Areas
Visit in a new windowEveryday life, Soldiers and Warfare, Buildings, Sea travel, Olympic games and Mythical beasts sections are great on this site full of text and image resources.
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Snaith Primary mini-site
Visit in a new windowAnother cracking site from Snaith Primary. Bit amateurish obviously but professionally thought through.
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Sport
Visit in a new windowBritish Museum artefacts support the teaching of the Olympics and Greek sports. Just type "Greeks" or "Olympics" into the search box. You can then "search within these results" and add your own terms like "vases".
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Virtual tour of Olympia - Olympic Games
Visit in a new windowAll of the following can be visited in this superb site which guides you through Olympia to discover more about the Olympic games. Gymnasium, alter, Temple of Zeus, Baths, swimming pool and more!
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Virtual tours
Visit in a new windowDo we like this!? Of course. see 360o around the sites of some amazing Greek archeological remains. The map as a birds eye view is available for your reference. Take a look. Includes Actium (Ambracian Gulf) Aegina (Temple of Aphaia) Amphiaraion Amyklai Argos (Larissa "Castle") Argos (Theater and Agora) Athens (Acropolis) Athens (Agora) Athens (Kerameikos) Athens (Olympieion) Athens (Pnyx and Philopappus Hill) Athens (Roman Agora) Athens (South Slope) Bassae Brauron Corinth Delphi Didyma Dimini Eleusis Epidauros (Sanctuary of Asklepios) Epidauros (Theater) Gerga Helicon (Valley of the Muses) Herakleia under Latmos Karphi Kithairon Laurion Lefkandi Lerna Mallia Miletos Mycenae Myrtos (Phournou) Myrtos (Pyrgos) Nemea (Stadium) Nemea (Temple of Zeus) Olympia Orchomenos (Treasury of Minyas) Pellana Perachora Phaistos Plataea Priene Pylos (Cave of Nestor) Pylos (Epano Englianos) Pyramid of Kenkreai Rhamnous Sardis Sesklo Smyrna (Bayrakli) Sounion Sparta (Menelaion) Sparta (Theater Area) Thebes ("3 Roads") Thebes ("7 Gates") Thermopylae Tiryns Troy Tylissos Vaphio (Tholos Tombs) Vasiliki Zakros
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Webquest
Visit in a new windowTrawl the web and discover the solutions to this web-based quest. Check the links work before use with the class.
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