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TOGAS, TEMPLES AND TALES-LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE
Description: Each day will be filled with hands on activities to learn
about ancient Greek life, art, democracy, myths and games. Activities
will include making ancient musical instruments, pottery and crafts,
water clocks and voting stones and large scale temple. Camp will also
include field trips to a local art museum and farmer’s market to see
how modern life has been influenced by the Ancient Greeks. The final
day of camp will conclude with an Olympics Games and Feast!
Activities:
Art
Ancient Pottery making techniques
Music
Make ancient musical intruments (Lyre)
Daily Life
How to dress like an ancient greek (togas)
Agora or farmer’s market
Myths
Learn the Greek gods and goddess (Daulieres’)
Read a myth
Democracy
Waterclock and voting stones
Olympics and games
Architecture
Build a temple (large model of Parthenon or Tholos)
Column hunt
Science
Archemedes screw
Supplies:
Togas: sheets from vinny’s, safety pins,
Room Decoration and teaching supplies:Maps and Posters of Greece
Lyre: paper bowls rubber bands cardboard popsicle sticks string, tape
Pottery: clay (modeling dough?, cinnamon applesauce dough), paper
for crayon resist
Head dresses: leaves and ribbon
Games: hula hoops, cones, javelin, discus, long jump
Temple: cardboard tubes, (make a small scale model to keep)
Archemedes Screw: coffee cans or soda bottles
Stones for voting: using model magic
Coins: use model magic and impression stamp
Myths: pick 2 each day to read. Make posters or temples or altars to
each.
Day 1: Introductions, groundrules, overview,
Where is Greece? What is it like?
Toga dressing, brainstorm what kids do now and what Ancient
greek kids did.
Read 2 myths and start talking about the Ancient Greek gods
and goddess
Make greek folders and come up with a god or goddess they
would like to be-what are their characteristics.
Make a lyre (paper bowls)
Make a waterclock (soda bottles?)
Voting stones and practice a vote.
Begin making temples (toilet paper tubes)
Begin making clay pots
Day2: Field trip to Chasen
Column hunt on way back
If time allows work on temples
Read a myth during snack
Day3: Begin clay pots, coins and Olympic items
Make wreaths for Olympics
Talk about what games to have for our Olympics (Pentathalon)
Discus (Frisbee)
Javelin
Long Jump
Ancient Feasts and Symposia
Day 4 finish with Olympic items
Olympics (outside)
Olympic Ceremony with crowns
Feast
Finish any art projects.
WEB RESOURCES
Waterclocks
Picture of clay water clock
orghttp://en.wikipedia./wiki/Water_clock
Animated Water clock
http://en.history-of-physics.com/antike/griechenland_wasseruhr.htm
Google search page (includes a powerpoint on waterclocks)
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0h&oq=&ie=U
TF-8&rlz=1T4HPNN_enUS312US226&q=ancient+greek+water+clock
Archemedes Screw
Google web search page
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPNN_enUS312US226
&q=archimedes+screw&aq=0&oq=archimedes+sc&aqi=g10
Websites
Ancient Greece for Kids http://greece.mrdonn.org/
Greece Tourism Organization http://www.visitgreece.gr/?langID=2
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2384
Toga dressing
Fold sheet in half long ways. Have child be in the center. Pin halfs at
shoulders. Belt at waste.
BOOKS ON ANCIENT GREECE
Eyewitness Books MYTHOLOGY by Neil Philip
Eyewitness Anthologies Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Greece! 40 hands on activities to experience this wonderous
age by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell
The Crafts and Cultures of the Ancient Greeks by Joann Jovinelly and
Jason Netelkos
Spend the Day in Ancient Greece by Linda Honan
Ancient Greece Gods and Goddesses by John Malam
Wonder Why.. Greeks Built Temples and other questions about Ancient
Greece by Fiona Macdonald
Visit The Past… The Acropolis by Jane Shuter
Classical Kids an Activity Guide to life in Ancient Greece and Rome by
Laurie Carlson
Step Into… Ancient Greece by Richard Tames
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Sean Sheehan
D’aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths