Dear Parents,

During our study of Greece your child may wish to continue his/her learning by doing some special extension activities. These tasks are meant to expand their understanding of Ancient Greece while integrating Social Studies, Reading and Writing standards. These are extensions to our classroom topics of study and are not going to be directly covered in class.

The work for this project is a choice board. Therefore students may complete as many activities as they wish to be presented to the class. Since these topics will not be covered elsewhere the students will become the teachers for each activity. The choice board activities also incorporate Gardner’s Styles of Learning to help reach every child.

After reviewing the activities please return this page so I am aware your child will be working on this project. I will help provide resources as needed to support their learning.

I would like to do these activities: ______(Student Signature)

I will support my child during these activities: ______

(Parent Signature) Ancient Greece Choice Board

Visual- Art was Natural-Along the Musical- Dance was very important to ancient coastline, the soil was not important to the ancient Greeks, they created very fertile, but the ancient Greeks. They believed that elaborate mosaics for Greeks used systems of dance improved both decoration as well as irrigation and crop rotation physical and emotional flooring. to help solve that problem. health. There were more They grew olives, grapes, than 200 ancient Greek Online or in books and figs. They also grew dances. Dance was look at pictures of wheat to make bread. accompanied by music their art. Then create Fish, seafood, and home- played on lyres, flutes, and your own mosaic made wine were very a wide variety of percussion using either: tile, popular food items. instruments such as beads or paper. Also tambourines, cymbals and write two to four Find a traditional Greek castanets. sentences describing recipe. Copy it down for your artwork. the class to see, then Research these prepare the food. Write a instruments, then recreate quick review of what you one of them the best you thought about it. NOTE- can. Bring it in to share you MUST make the food, with the class and tell us you may not buy it at a how it was used. Do we restaurant. still use this instrument or is there another one similar? Verbal Linguistic- Student Choice- Find out Bodily Kinesthetic – Kids Ancient Greeks often something else you think in Ancient Greece didn’t did not write down sounds interesting. have TVs or Video games their stories. Even Research it during this to play with. Therefore Aesop’s Fables were time. Figure out some games were very important told through word of way to depict or for entertainment. mouth and not written demonstrate it and share it down till much later. with the class. Research the different games they played either Read through either through books or at myths or stories that http://library.thinkquest.org/ the Ancient Greeks CR0210200/ancient_greec told. Then try to be the e/online_activities.htm . story teller by telling Learn how to play one of one to the class the games then come without reading the teach the class. Do we still words- Don’t forget play this game or the moral! something like it? Interpersonal- How Spatial- The Acropolis Mathematical/ Logical- different was Greek and Parthenon were major The Ancient Greeks were life? Create a double structures in Ancient strong warriors and often bubble chart to Greece. Their construction fought many battles compare life back was monolithic and the amongst the different polis. then to today’s ruins still remain today. society. Would you Research some of the wars rather live then or now Research what these and chart who was involved and why? structures looked like and and who won. From this create a 3-D model of one decide who you personally of them. This should be believe was the best polis. as accurate as possible. Write a paragraph why you think they were the best; use your chart as evidence.

To ease the research- all information may be found at http://greece.mrdonn.org/ . However there are MANY websites for children about Ancient Greece, some more are posted on our class website.