March 13th
Warm Up:
1. What is this symbol?
2. How often do the games happen?
3. Where did the games start?
4. How did they start?
5. Choose a sport you will want to compete in?
Essential Question: What role did geography and politics play in the formation of the Ancient Olympic games? How did early Olympics shape modern sports?
Achieve 3000/ Mailbox/ "Where the Games Began?"/" Old Machines, New Answers"
Images
Olympic games/ Olympics
Go for the gold!
Olympic Museum
Olympic games
March 11th
Continue with your research for the project. Follow the steps outlined the previous two days. Make sure you have a final product at the end of today. Send it to Mrs. Strawn at [email protected]
March 10th
Warm Up:
1. What is a city-state?
2. Name the two most famous Ancient Greek city-states.
3. Name two things we have inherited from the Ancient Greeks.
Continue with your research for the Facebook project. Use the information from yesterday. Save your presentation on your Google drive and send it to me at
[email protected]
March 9th
Warm Up:
1. What is a myth?
2. Are myths reliable source of history?
3 What do we learn from myths?
Essential Question: Who were the ancient Greeks? What did the believe in? What did they value? How did they live?
Mythology
Greek God/Goddess Research Project
Your Task: Choose a Greek God or Goddess from any myth that we have read in class. You need to research this God/Goddess and create a Facebook profile for him/her using PowerPoint.
You will present your PowerPoint to the class when you are finished. You are NOT making a profile using the Facebook website. You must download the template and create the profile using PowerPoint. The purpose of this projet?ct is to learn about each God and Goddess.
Step One: Download and complete the outline . Save it in your documents.
Step Two: Go to the approved websites (located at the bottom of this page under "Resources") to research the God/Goddess you chose. You may also use the myths we read in class to assist you with your project.
Step Three: Mrs. Strawn must approve your outline
Step Four: Download the PowerPoint template and begin your presentation
Step Five: Teach the class about your God/Goddess by presenting your PowerPoint to the class.
Use any of the websites bellow to find information on the god/goddess you have chosen. Remember to follow the outline and save it and the presentation in your Google Drive so you can present it on a later date.
RESOURCES:
Meet the Greek Gods/ Greek Gods and Goddesses / Greek Mythology/ Greek myths
12 Olympians
Exploring Greek Myths