Explore Ancient Greece!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
By Carmella Van Vleet and Alex Kim
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Investigate the fascinating civilization of ancient Greece through 25 hands-on projects and activities for young readers ages 6-9. Kids learn about ancient Greek homes, food, playtime, clothing, conquests, arts and entertainment, gods, and more. Activities range from fashioning a model oil lamp from clay to building a courtyard column and constructing a flipbook sailing ship. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Ancient Greece! and develop an understanding of how this ancient civilization still influences our modern world.
Carmella Van Vleet
Carmella Van Vleet is a former teacher and the award-winning author of nearly two dozen books for kids and adults. She is the author of Explore Ancient Rome, Robotics, and Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly from Nomad Press. She lives in Ohio.
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Explore Ancient Greece! - Carmella Van Vleet
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Where in the World Was Ancient Greece?
CHAPTER 1
Welcome Home!
CHAPTER 2
Let’s Eat!
CHAPTER 3
Clothes
CHAPTER 4
School, Socrates, and Science
CHAPTER 5
The Olympics and the Theater
CHAPTER 6
Democracy and War
CHAPTER 7
Gods, Goddesses, and Myths
Where in the world was
ANCIENT GREECE?
Have you and your family or friends ever taken a group vote? Have you ever watched the Olympics? Or looked up in the night sky at the constellation Orion? Maybe you’ve heard about the Trojan Horse, Achilles’ heel, or the lost city of Atlantis. Or maybe you’ve heard of people having a jury of their peers. Guess what! All of these things came from ancient Greece.
Where was ancient Greece? And what was it like to live there? What influence did it have on our world today? In this book, you’ll explore ancient Greece, an amazing civilization that reached its height of glory during the years 800–31 BCE. The book will answer many of your questions and share some really cool facts. You’ll get to learn about things like the city of Athens, Mount Olympus, Helen of Troy, and the Spartans.You’ll read about the birth of science, mathematics, astronomy, democracy, and even the Olympic games! Along the way, you’ll get to do plenty of fun projects and experiments, play games and hear some goofy jokes. Are you ready? Then let’s explore ancient Greece!
BCE / CE
As you read, you will notice the letters BCE after some dates. This stands for Before Common Era. The beginning of the Common Era is marked by the birth of Jesus and begins with the year 1. Time before the first year of the Common Era is called as Before Common Era. The years BCE may seem backward, because as time passes, the years actually become smaller in number. A child born in 300 BCE, for instance, would celebrate his or her tenth birthday in the year 290 BCE. Think of it as a countdown to the Common Era.
WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS ANCIENT GREECE?
Today, Greece is a country in the southern part of Europe. The land of ancient Greece included modern-day Greece as well as hundreds of islands in the Aegean, Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Black Seas. Parts of modern-day Turkey, Italy, Egypt, and Spain were also part of the ancient Greek civilization. Ancient Greece wasn’t just one country or area. It was a collection of lands. You might be surprised to hear that the people of ancient Greece didn’t call themselves Greek. They called themselves Hellenes. And they called their land Hellas. The words Greece and Greeks came from the ancient Romans.
The land of ancient Greece had lots of mountains. The coastline was jagged. It also had large plains where farmers grew crops and people built houses. Winters could be very cold and snowy in the mountains, but most of the rest of ancient Greece was hot and dry.
PLAINS: large, flat land areas.
CITY-STATE: an independent village or town in ancient Greece.
CITY-STATES
Ancient Greece was made up of many city-states. A city-state was made up of a central city and surrounding towns and countryside. It’s a little like how we have cities surrounded by suburbs. They were independent, meaning that each of them had their own government and way of doing things. They even had their own kind of money. The Greeks called these city-states "poleis. (A
polis" was one city.) People from the countryside and small towns went to the central city to buy things, visit friends, and conduct business. Each polis had an acropolis. An acropolis was a high area or hill where people went if there was a battle. The acropolis gave the Greek people a safe place to gather and to watch for the enemy.