Lesson Planning
Discover what school was like for rich boys in Ancient Greece and what home education might have been like for girls; role-play a boy’s life in school; make an abacus; learn to weave, in the same way that the girls learnt from their mothers.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To research what the curriculum was like for those being educated in Ancient Greece.
- To discover who was eligible for education in the Ancient Greek civilization.
- To learn about school life for boys and home education for girls.
- To role-play a boy’s life in school and learn to weave, in the same way that the girls learnt from their mothers.
- To make an abacus in the style of the Ancient Greeks.
Children will:
- Understand what school was like for rich boys in Ancient Greece and what home education might have been like for girls.
- Role-play a boy’s life in school, make an abacus and learn to weave, in the same way that the girls learnt from their mothers.