Ancient Greece Webquest
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Ancient Greece at the British Museum – Web Quest
ACROPOLIS Click on the “Acropolis” button and answer the following questions. 1. What famous building can you find at the Athenian Acropolis.
2. What does Acropolis mean in Greek?
Scan to the bottom of the page and click on the button that says “Explore.” 3. Pick three of the buildings at the Acropolis. After you’ve read about all three of them, pick one to describe here.
Go back and click on the button that says “Challenge” in order to build your own Grecian temple.
DAILY LIFE 4. How was daily life different for men and women?
5. How was daily life different in Sparta?
Click on the button that says “Story.” Choose two different individuals and follow their lives from birth to death. 6. Who did you pick?
7. How were their lives different?
FESTIVALS 8. What are some of the activities at festivals that were meant to honor the gods?
Go to the “Story” Button.
9. What is the opening activity of these games?
10. What event would you pick to participate in and why?
GEOGRAPHY 11. How many islands does Greece have? 12. In what places other than Greece, might you have found Greek colonies?
Click on “Challenge” in order to conduct an undersea search for a sunken ship.
GODS AND GODDESSES 13. How were the gods and goddesses similar to humans?
14. What were at least three things Greeks did to honor the gods?
Click on the “Story” button.
15. Read the “story” of the procession found on the ancient pot.
Click on the “Explore” button. 16. Pick on of the gods or goddesses and write a brief paragraph about your choice.
Click on the “Challenge” button. Play the God/Goddess and symbolism game.
KNOWLEDGE and LEARNING 17. What did Hippokrates look for?
Click on the “Challenge” button and try to solve the medical mystery.
TIME 18. When did people first settle Greece?
19. When did Greece recover from its dark age? What had caused this dark age?
Click on the “Story” button.
20. What is some of the advice that Hesiod gave farmers?
Click on the “Challenge” button. Try to be a successful Athenian farmer.