Ancient Greece

Our current Integrated Study is: Ancient Greece Our Big Idea is: People who lived in the past were not that much different to ourselves, even though some of their cultural practices seem very different to how we do things today. We started our study of Ancient Greece by writing down our prior knowledge onto yellow sticky notes and placing them onto a class chart.  From there we grouped our knowledge under similar topics and came up with 'key words' as headings for our knowledge.

Mrs Skilton gave us jig saw puzzles of Ancient Greece pictures to reconstruct and gather information from.  Once we had put the pictures back together we reported back to the rest of the class with the new knowledge we had found out.  It's amazing how much you can learn from pictures!

We then used books and the internet to gather information for our class charts and for our miniposters.  We have learned skimming and scanning, notetaking and notemaking and are well on our way to answering our questions.  We will soon be ready to present our findings and answers on our miniposters.