The Marbles

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Ancient Greece Parthenon Marbles

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Objectives

History

Study Ancient Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

English

Explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, including through formal presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on the topic and using notes where necessary.
Extend confidence, enjoyment and mastery of language through public speaking, performance and debate.

Lesson Planning

Learn the story depicted on the marbles and retell it through performance.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about the story the Parthenon Marbles tell.
To retell part of the story on the Parthenon Frieze in small world.

Children will:

Explain where on the Parthenon sculptures were situated.
Work out the order of the Parthenon frieze.
Script part of the story of the Panathenaic procession.

Planning

Provided Resources

A virtual reconstruction of the Parthenon
Parthenon Frieze jigsaw
Parthenon Frieze story
Small world recreation of the Parthenon Frieze

You Will Need

Lego or Playmobil figures
Cameras/tablets

Weblinks

Video with a reconstruction of how the Parthenon would have looked - YouTube clip
Information on the scenes on the Parthenon frieze from perseus.tufts.edu
Photographs of the frieze from beazley.ox.ac.uk
Parthenon galleries at the British Museum from britishmuseum.org