Web Instructional Strategy: Topic Hotlist

Rachel Alberg
EDMT 380-001: Topic Hotlist
Fall 2005

Summary/Description

This topic hotlist can be used for a cross-curricular unit on Ancient Greece for 6th grade students. The unit can be interdisciplinary taught through such as social studies in terms of history, economics, sociology and geography. English and art may also be incorporated. Students are to gain an understanding of Ancient Greece through research.

There will be numerous small projects during the unit, which will require students to research using the websites below. One of those projects will be for students to partner up and research about a god/goddess and give a presentation to the class using power point.

Overall project of the unit is for students to create a newsletter/paper addressing three different topics of Ancient Greece: Olympians, gods/goddess, philosophers, way of life, hierarchy, art, and architecture just to name a few. Objective is for students to become creative in their style of writing, whether they write their newspaper during the time of Ancient Greece or in past tense as reporting on the history of Ancient Greece. This will require students to learn to write in a narrative style. Rough drafts will be submitted to teach to verify students are on the right track. Also will require students to use Desktop Publishing to develop a clean, clear and unique layout to their newspaper. Pictures will be required.

Students should be able to receive all their research material from the websites below. All websites have been checked and are grade appropriate. All images in websites can be used unless indicated in annotation.

General

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks
This website addresses numerous topics affiliated with Ancient Greece. It gives definition of words and a detailed but brief write-up on the topic. Pictures are also included.

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html
Paragraph length descriptions about Greek Families (Men, Women, and children), Greek houses, food, clothing, hair styles, dance, education for boys and girls, weddings, and also talks about the different city-states.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientgreece.htm
Provides a timeline of Ancient Greece, glossary of terms, maps, and information on the Olympics, Persian Wars and people who governed Greece.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html
Very detailed website broken into sections of land and time, daily life, religion and death, economy and an extra topics section including way of life, gods/goddess and some poetry. All sections include wonderful images to accompany text.

Olympics

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics
This website is all about Ancient Greece Olympics. Lists all sports involved during ancient Greece time and can find stories about some of the Olympians. Included also is frequently asked questions with answers. Pictures on this website may not be used, are protected under copyright law.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/ancientgreekolympics1.htm
Learn about the main Olympic sports played during Ancient Greece time.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicintro.html
Provides pictures through art pottery of the games and famous Olympians. Stories are given about each Olympian.

http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/ancient/index_uk.asp
This is the International Olympic website. They give a brief history to the Olympic games in Ancient Greece and you also can look at Olympic games from 1826 to present day.

Gods/Goddess

http://www.historylink102.com/greece2/index.htm
Greeks were polytheists meaning they believed in more than one God. This site gives a brief introduction to Greek mythology gods and goddess as to how each received their name and why they are so important.

http://www.hol.gr/greece/grkpg1.htm
This website is a little complex in reading, but gives detailed stories as to how the Gods/Goddess received their names and why they are important in Greek Mythology.

Images

http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/greek.html
Thumbnail images of famous architecture, sculpturess, and city-states of Ancient Greece.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
Images of certain famous architectures.

http://www.ancient-greece.org/
Architecture of Ancient Greece as seen today.

http://imagesvr.library.upenn.edu/p/pennmuseum/simple.html
This is a data base search. You will need to type in 'Greece' in search bar to recieve pictures.

Last updated December 16, 2005
Any questions? Please contact albergrl@uwec.edu