Ancient Greece

Birthplace of Democracy?

Greece and Persia

Unit Description

In this unit learners will explore the civilization of Ancient Greece to learn how the ideas, events, architecture, laws and religion of this civilization continues to impact the world today. Students will focus on the legacy of Ancient Greece and determine whether textbooks typically tell the true story.

Key Concept

Systems

For individuals and societies, systems thinking provides a powerful tool for understanding both natural and human environments, and the role of individuals within them. Social and natural systems rely on a state of equilibrium and are vulnerable to change from internal and external forces

Global Context

Fairness

Sustainability

Rights & Responsibilities

Related Concepts

Innovation

Perspective

Revolution

Statement of Inquiry

Government systems can favor the few or the many and they are shaped by significant factors which can be evaluated from different perspectives.

Inquiry Questions

Factual

Who were the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Persians?

Conceptual

What are the legacies of Ancient Greece and Ancient Persia?

Debatable

Did the right side win the Greco-Persian Wars?

Learning Objectives

Students will know:

  • Not everyone was a citizen in Ancient Greece

  • Geographic factors can contribute to or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.

  • Greek democracy influenced the structure and function of modern democratic governments.

  • Historians attempt to describe events through the perspectives of those living at the time.

  • Individuals and groups often hold differing perspectives on issues, both historic and contemporary.

  • Ancient Greece was a peninsula and several islands located in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Ionian Seas

  • and much more!


Students will be able to:

  • Cite examples of geographic factors

  • Describe how geographic factors can promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.

  • Cite responsibilities of citizens of ancient Greece

  • Demonstrate how maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement from past to present

  • Explain how Greek democracy influenced the structure and function of modern democratic government

  • Identify examples of the legacy of ancient Greeks

  • Locate Ancient Greece on a world modern map.

  • and much more!