Upper Key Stage 2 Ancient Greece

Trade

Locate Ancient Greece and the countries that made up their empire; play a sorting game.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand the wider world in the time of Ancient Greece.
• To label a blank map of the Mediterranean with modern and ancient names.

Children will:

• Assess the natural resources of an area through observation.
• Use maps to help them locate places in the Mediterranean.
• Match ancient place names to modern ones.

• Map of modern countries around the Mediterranean
• Ancient place names and clues
• The Mediterranean c. 700 BCE presentation

• Atlases
• Sketchbooks

Video of the island of Ithaca - YouTube clip
Video about Ancient Greek trading
60 second video about trading in Ancient Greece
Travel in the Ancient Greek world from ancient.eu
A silver coin from Athens from teachinghistory100.org
Ancient Greek trade from metmuseum.org
The different city states of Ancient Greece from ducksters.com

Discover the goods that were traded by the Ancient Greeks; play a trading game.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To find out about what was traded between cities in the Archaic and Classical periods.
• To retrieve and present information for catalogue.
• To make a trade plan

Children will:

• Undertake historical research.
• Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
• Explain how the uneven distribution of natural resources fuels trade.

• Where natural resources came from (presentation)
• Trade in the Ancient Greek World
• Trading plan template

• Sketchbooks

Ancient Greek trade from ancient.eu
Phoenician trade from timemaps.com
A silver coin from Athens from teachinghistory100.org
Ancient Greek trade from metmuseum.org
The different city states of Ancient Greece from ducksters.com
Information about trading in Ancient Greece.

Learn about the evidence for Greek trading; learn about evidence from shipwrecks.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To investigate a case study of a Greek shipwreck or archaeological site.
• To retrieve and present information for catalogue.
• To add the information they learn to their maps.

Children will:

• Undertake historical research.
• Retrieve and report information from non-fiction.
• Demonstrate what the evidence tells us about economy and trade links.

• Case studies
• How to use a sketchbook

• Sketchbooks
• The maps children were marking in the first session

The Underwater Museum of Peristera

How did the economy work? Find out about the different types.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To research the introduction of coinage in Ancient Greece.
• To debate the advantages and disadvantages of a barter system.
• To decide whether their game will be barter or money based.

Children will:

• Explain the economic system of exchange in Ancient Greece.
• Make sketches of coins.
• Debate the advantages and disadvantages of barter and money

• How to do a search for Ancient Greek coins

• Internet-enabled devices
• Sketchbooks

The history of exchange in the Horrible Histories style - YouTube clip
Article about Ancient Greek coinage from ancient.eu
Greek, especially Athenian, money from historylink101.com
Search on the British Museum website for Ancient Greek coins from britishmuseum.org

Show all you have learnt about trading by deciding the rules for an Ancient Greek trading game.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To use their knowledge to create a strategy game.
• To discuss and agree the objectives and rules of the game.
• To use their knowledge to decide the objectives and limitations of the game.

Children will:

• Apply their knowledge of Ancient Greek trade to create a strategy game.
• Apply their locational knowledge and human geographical knowledge of the Mediterranean to the game.
• Take part in discussions and give justifications for their proposals.

• Ancient Greek Trade strategy game

• Sketchbooks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.

Make your items to trade in the Ancient Greek trading game.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To find out about Ancient Greek objects to recreate as props.
• To create props to use in the game.

Children will:

• Use their knowledge about Ancient Greek objects to make replicas.
• Plan an artwork using their sketchbooks and discussion with a partner.
• Work in a variety of materials.

• Ancient Greek traded items presentation
• Making objects to trade

• FiMo
• Air-drying clay
• Cardboard
• Potatoes
• Metallic card
• Metallic pens
• Pears soap
• Carving tools
• Sketchbooks

Ancient Greek clothing from primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk
British Museum online collection search from britishmuseum.org

Dress up and play your trading game.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To demonstrate their knowledge of Ancient Greek trade by playing a strategy game.
• To play the strategy game including bartering.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the human geography of the Ancient Greek world to play the game.

Children will:

• Demonstrate their knowledge of Ancient Greek trade to trade with other children.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the Mediterranean to trade with the right people.
• Take part in a role play.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• The objects for trading the children created in session 6
• The rules children created in session 5
• Sketchbooks
• Masking tape

The clothes that the Ancient Greeks wore from primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk