Ancient Greeks: 10 lessons for KS2 A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic. What you get: 10 lesson Powerpoint files 10 detailed lesson plans Teachers’ notes, including curriculum coverage Pupil activity sheets for all lessons About the Unit The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of life in Ancient Greece, including a focus on its achievements and influence on the western world. As with all of the KS2History unit plans, there is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of world history. Aims of the Unit To gain an overview of significant people, places and events from Ancient Greece To contrast daily life in Ancient Greece with modern day lifestyles ! To consider broader historical context, particularly with regards to the expansion of the Ancient Greek empire and lasting legacy To become familiar with historical sources, debates and accurate vocabulary relating to Ancient Greece Lessons in the Pack Who were the Ancient Greeks? Why were Athens and Sparta so different? What was Alexander the Great’s impact on the Greek empire? Why did a small Greek army win the Battle of Marathon? What were the Ancient Greek gods known for? What happened at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games? What were the Ancient Greek philosophers famous for? Did the events of the Trojan Horse story really happen? What was daily life like for children in Ancient Greece? How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today? This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable. This pack is brought to you from Ks2history

A lesson for KS2 about the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets. This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2. Lesson: What were the Ancient Greek gods known for? This lesson looks at Ancient Greek gods and goddesses and how they were recognised. Pupils will play a game to find and identify hidden gods and goddesses using their associated symbols, before applying their knowledge to sourcework by identifying the deities on an Ancient Greek wall relief. Then pupils will work in groups to focus on one particular Olympian god in a super-size poster challenge ready for a lightning quiz at the end of the lesson. Objectives: To learn about the twelve Olympian gods and their associated symbols To identify key Ancient Greek gods and goddesses from historical sources You may also like: Ancient Greeks Lessons Pack for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic. This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.

Three-week writing unit about a Greek myth, planned in detail and fully resourced and differentiated. It is pitched at Year 4, but would work equally well in Year 5 or 6 (please see the key skills covered below). For most sessions, there are resources to extend high attainers and resources to support SEN learners. By the end of the unit, children will have written a Greek myth of their own, informed by the structure of Theseus and the Minotaur. Along the way, there is drama, grammar skills, vocabulary work and short-burst diary writing - please see the objectives below. This unit is ready to go! Three weeks of differentiated resources is a lot of files, so you can’t see it all in the preview. When you buy, please use the zip folder. The contents of the zip are organised into weeks and then into individual lessons (the other files are only there so that people can preview the unit!) . The zip will enable you to navigate your way through the plan and related resources with ease. All resources are PowerPoint and Word, so you will have no issues opening anything - and you can edit to suit your own needs - no PDFs! There are many, many resources included. Here are a few key examples: model text (short and long versions); a story map; drama activities; story boards; cold task/assessment task; reading comprehension activities; conjunctions activities; scavenger hunt; paragraphing activities; pronoun activities; noun phrase activities; fronted adverbial activities; tool kits; idea gathering resources; planning grids; peer assessment resources; and many more! The key objectives covered repeatedly throughout the unit are: Reading: • increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally • asking questions to improve their understanding of a text • drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence Vocab/grammar/punctuation • I can use a wide range of subordinating conjunctions (when, if, because, although) • I understand the term ‘adverbial’ and I can use fronted adverbials (with a comma) • I can choose a variety of nouns and pronouns (to avoid repetition) Composition • discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar • organising paragraphs around a theme Evaluate and edit by: • assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements These have been broken down and written in ‘child speak’ within the planning.

A 6-week Greek Theatre scheme of work, exploring chorus, masks and myths. This scheme comes complete with detailed powerpoints and supporting resources, so no planning is needed and you are ready to go! This resource pack includes: Scheme of work Powerpoints Unit overview Lesson planning Assessment criteria levels (2-5) Assessment guide Cover lesson pack Myth narratives

This 20-lesson unit is packed with everything you need to take your class on an unforgettable journey through Greek mythology. Children will explore the world of gods, heroes and mythical creatures, using well-known myths like Theseus and the Minotaur as inspiration to plan and write their own original myth. The unit is structured from cold task to hot task, giving children the chance to show progress and build confidence across the weeks. You’ll find detailed lesson plans, worksheets, and a fully resourced PowerPoint for every step of the way. 20 fully planned English lessons A cold task to assess starting points, and a hot task to show progress Model text: Theseus and the Minotaur Engaging grammar starters (e.g. subordinate clauses, speech punctuation, hyphens) Shared writing opportunities and oral storytelling Lessons on gods, heroes and mythical creatures Story structure focus: opening, build-up, problem, resolution, ending Worksheets, planning templates, scaffolds and challenge tasks Extensive teaching PowerPoint with visuals and modelling prompts Differentiated tasks (Support, Expected, Challenge)

A 5 week unit focusing on Greek myths and legends for KS3 students stories and resources included Each myth builds a foundation of the key concepts and texts taught at GCSE. These include tragic heroes, femininity, power and humanity. The unit focuses on reading comprehension, creative writing (fiction and non-fiction) as well as analytical writing. Writing structures provided (most with sentence starters.) Week 1: The Ancient Greeks Lesson 1: The Ancient Greeks Lesson 2: Greek Gods and Goddesses Lesson 3: Mythical Beasts Lesson 4: Hercules Week 2: Be Careful What You Wish For Lesson 5: Pandora’s Box Lesson 6: King Midas Lesson 7: Icarus Week 3: Vanity and Narcissism Lesson 9: Mirror Descriptions Lesson 10: Narcissus Lesson 11: Medusa Lesson 12: Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ Week 4: The Power of Nature: Lesson 13: Hades and the Underworld Lesson 14: Persephone’s Abduction Lesson 15: Artemis and Orion Lesson 16: Poseidon Week 5: Masculinity and Tragic Heroes Lesson 17: Prometheus and Zeus Lesson 18: Persuading Zeus Lesson 19: Achilles and the Tragic Hero Lesson 20: Greek Myths Quiz

A complete scheme of work, introducing students to the concepts of Ancient Greek Theatre. The scheme covers a variety of ideas and culminates in a summative, performance assessment. Included in this pack: Lesson 1 - The Gods Lesson 2 - Amphitheatres and Antigone Lesson 3 - The Chorus Lesson 4 - Masks Lesson 5 - Devising Lesson 6 - Rehearsing Lesson 7 - Assessment/Performance Assessment sheet Script for assessment (Creon/Chorus dialogue) A great scheme for KS3 drama in particular :)

This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to gain a clear and understanding of the key meanings in the Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus.’ Through close study of the myth, they learn to interpret and infer the key meanings in a myth, understand the moral viewpoint of a myth, and react to the moral message of a myth with their own thoughts and ideas. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define the key term ‘hubris’ and apply the notion to other examples; - Read the story ‘Daedarus and Icarus’ and interpret and infer the key meanings; - Identify, explain, and analyse the moral of the story in ‘Daedarus and Icarus;’ - Engage deeply with the myth by challenging and building upon the ideas raised in the myth; - Test their understanding of the story by answering an exam-style comprehension question. -Peer assess each other’s learning attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Paper copies and online links to the text; - Interpretation worksheet; - A logically scaffolded essay template; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

A complete and engaging Year 7 scheme of work exploring Greek myths and epic storytelling, designed to build reading, analysis and writing skills through rich texts and structured assessment. This 11-lesson Scheme of Work: Greek Epic & Myths is a fully resourced unit that introduces students to the power, purpose and lasting influence of Greek mythology while explicitly developing core English skills. The scheme is carefully sequenced so that knowledge, vocabulary and analytical confidence build lesson by lesson, making it suitable for full-term planning, departmental use or confident delivery by non-specialists. Students begin with a genre study of Greek myths and epic narratives, exploring creation myths, the Olympians and key belief systems before moving on to extended stories such as Pandora, Heracles and his Labours, and Homer’s The Odyssey. Across the unit, pupils study key episodes including the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Suitors, allowing them to track character development and themes across a whole text rather than in isolation. Throughout the scheme, students develop a secure understanding of key vocabulary such as hubris, wrath, epic, epithet, pantheism, pious and gravity, alongside regular opportunities for retrieval practice, discussion, annotation and inference. Lessons explicitly model how to annotate texts, identify language techniques and write analytical responses using the WHAT, HOW, WHY structure, ensuring students are well supported in developing extended written analysis. Creative tasks, role play, paired discussion and low-stakes quizzes are embedded to maintain engagement while reinforcing knowledge and skills. The unit also encourages students to explore the moral messages of myths, the cultural and religious beliefs of Ancient Greece, and the lasting influence of these stories on modern literature and language. Assessment is built in through a formative writing task focused on character presentation, followed by a final summative assessment in which students respond to the question: How does Homer present Odysseus across the text? By the end of the scheme, students are able to write confident, structured analytical paragraphs using evidence and subject terminology, making this an ideal KS3 foundation for GCSE-style literary analysis. This classroom-tested scheme is ready to teach, clearly structured and designed to stretch and support mixed-ability Year 7 classes while keeping pupils genuinely engaged with powerful and memorable stories.

Teach your students about fifteen of the main Greek gods and goddesses with illustrated listings, each with an original illustration, the Roman names, role, symbol, a myth and a combination of other fun facts. The introduction features interesting facts about the ancient Greek religion including sacrifices, temples, festivals and Mount Olympus. This PDF includes information handouts, a fact file activity, a printable memory card game, match the Roman and Greek god activity, and differentiated reading response worksheets. Pages: 19 (including 3 answer sheets) Contents: 6 Information Handouts Fact File activity Printable Memory Card Game Match the Roman and Greek God Activity Reading Response / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Worksheets)

4 worksheets designed as cover lessons to be taught by non-specialist. Follows a Greek mythology unit but you do not need to have taught the exact Greek unit of work.

A lesson for KS2 about the lasting legacy of Ancient Greece, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets. This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2. Lesson: How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today? In this lesson, pupils will explore some of the key legacies from Ancient Greece that influence life today. They will consider the significance of each legacy in terms of its impact on their own life, before working in a group to complete a ranking challenge to decide the most significant legacy. Objectives: To explore the influence of Ancient Greece on various areas of modern life To consider the significance of different legacies on life today You may also like: Ancient Greeks Lessons Pack for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic. This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.

In this lesson, students will learn how Athens was governed as a direct democracy. They will learn what the key words- oligarchy, monarchy and tyranny is and will understand how the direct democratic model worked in Athens. They will also learn about the Athenian criminal court system and will then enact two different scenarios using drama to better understand the systems. They will be given two scenarios to write down their arguments either for/against and as a class will role play these. This lesson is heavily guided with all of the information needed included. A video and a quiz also makes it engaging for all. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.

This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to gain a clear understanding of the key meanings in the Greek Myth ‘Echo and Narcissus.’ Through engagement with the story, students learn to interpret and infer the key meanings in the text, understand its predominant morals, and back up their ideas with textual evidence. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define the key term ‘moral’ and identify the morals in popular tales; - Read the story ‘Echo and Narcissus’ and interpret the key meanings; - Identify, explain, and analyse the moral of the story in ‘Echo and Narcissus’; - Engage deeply with the text by inferring the thoughts and feelings of the key characters; - Test their understanding of the story by answering an exam-style comprehension question. -Peer assess each other’s learning attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Online links to the text; - Resources for ‘In Your Shoes’ Task; - Bloom’s Taxonomy worksheet; - A logically scaffolded essay template; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

Full lesson including do now, spellings, grammar time (prepositions), oral drill. Main lesson is exploring the conventions of a monologue, looking at an example and starting to plan ideas for their own monologue as the Cyclops.

Describe Ancient Greek beliefs. Explain how Ancient Greek beliefs had an impact on medical advances. Lesson Objective: how far does modern society reflect Ancient Greece? AQA GCSE History: Britain: Health and the People: c1000 to the Present Day - Medicine Stands Still. The resources are also suitable for Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. Each lesson is fully inclusive and differentiated to challenge high-attaining students, whilst offering support to students with SEND and low-attaining students. The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average and outcomes for this specific component consistently exceed the national average according to AQA Enhanced Results Analysis: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

A handy resource to revise Greek myths, practice adjectives and adverbs as well as connectives, create complex sentences

Everything you need for a display on Ancient Greece. * Header (can be enlarged or printed as A3) * 12 posters with short descritptions * 12 Ancient Greece timeline cards (2 per page) * 60 Keywords (not all shown)

A simple poster showing 12 letters of the Greek alphabet

Designed to tie into any scheme of work on Greek Mythology.

A powerpoint explaining some of the main gods from Ancient Greece.