Ancient Greece Topic Enrichment Pack

Explore ancient Greece and its many wonders with this cross-curricular pack designed to captivate and inspire your Year 5/6 children! This Ancient Greece KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven exciting lessons across Art, Computing and DT, all thoughtfully designed to help your class build essential skills while exploring this engaging period of history.

Your class will:

• Design comedy and tragedy masks, decorate pots in the style of ancient Greek pottery and create soap sculptures inspired by ancient Greek statues
• Create a website about ancient Greece and compile a multiple-choice quiz
• Design, create and evaluate a labyrinth and a reproduction of the Parthenon.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing ancient Greeks topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

Why not upgrade to our Ancient Greece Topic Bundle – great if you're looking for a cross-curricular approach to your teaching! 

Greek Masks

This Greek Masks KS2 Art lesson explores the comedy and tragedy masks of ancient Greece and challenges your Year 5 or Year 6 class to create their own versions! The included slideshow presentation starts by showing the class what these Greek theatre masks were, and why and how they were used, before going through some clear step-by-step photos for how children can create their own Greek mask using simple materials. Your class can then have a go at making a Greek theatre mask of their own!

This Greek Masks KS2 planning pack comes fully planned and ready to deliver to your class with a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Greek Vases

This Greek Vases KS2 Art lesson gives your Year 5 or Year 6 class the chance to explore different examples of Greek vases and pottery, looking in particular at the use of style, colour and pattern. They are then challenged to either decorate a terracotta pot in the style of ancient Greek pottery or create their own Greek vases out of clay.

The included slideshow presentation shows many examples of Greek vases before showing some helpful tips on decorating a pot to make it look like an ancient Greek artefact. In this planning pack there is also a lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class as they design and make their own Greek vases.

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Soap Sculptures

This fun lesson starts by looking at surviving examples of ancient Greek statues and sculptures before giving your class the chance to turn their hand to sculpture themselves as they carve away at a bar of soap to create their own replica marble statues. The slides give some helpful hints, tips and examples to get them started before having a go for themselves.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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Creating a Website

This fun Ancient Greece Computing lesson gives your KS2 class the chance to show off their knowledge of ancient Greece by creating their very own websites using Google Sites!

The included slideshow presentation goes through a handy step-by-step process to give your Year 5/6 children the basics, before giving them the chance to have a go for themselves. They will be challenged to consider what information to include on each page of their ancient Greece website, as well as the best way to present that information. Can they insert images and image carousels? Can they add headers? Can they edit fonts and layouts? They will be able to by the end of the lesson!

Containing everything you need to deliver this activity, this Ancient Greece Computing planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable teaching resources to support them as they create their websites.

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Multiple Choice Quizzes

This lesson looks at how to use PowerPoint, and particularly hyperlinks, to create a multiple-choice quiz on ancient Greece. Let your class consolidate their PowerPoint skills as they not only create a basic quiz but also use different backgrounds, fonts, colours and transitions to make their quizzes more exciting!

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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In the Labyrinth

Reading the story of Theseus and the Minotaur sets the scene for this lesson as your class finds out what labyrinths are and how to design, create and evaluate their own model labyrinth. The slides give some helpful hints about how to plan and design their labyrinths, as well as how to make sure that their finished labyrinths work effectively.

Included in this DT lesson pack is an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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At the Parthenon

The Parthenon is an iconic image of ancient Greece and this lesson allows your class to look at its design and structure in more detail and to explore different ways of using a variety of materials to create a model of the Parthenon. They can then use what they have learnt to design, build and evaluate a final model.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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