Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Assessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia
Using excerpts from ancient cuneiform tablets Lynn Reese, Director of the Women in World History Project, asks students to evaluate the quality and the characteristics of women's lives in Ancient Mesopotamia. The information literacy skills taught in this lesson are interpreting and evaluating primary source documents.

Wheel of Pharaoh
In this lesson students identify terms used to describe characteristics of early societies and family structures. (This lesson can be modified for 8th grade.)

The Hellenistic Age and the Legacy of Alexander
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the vocabulary, geography and historical perspectives needed to analyze and discuss the characteristics of Hellenistic Greece and the spread of Greek culture to the far reaches of the empire with particular attention focused on the historical themes of Cooperation/Conflict, Innovation, and Cultural Diffusion.
 

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
This site contain an interactive timeline from PBS.

Ancient Greek
This site contains information about ancient Greek sculptures, art, paintings, & architecture.

Ancient Greece
Portland State University education students provided middle school level information about ancient Greek life, now maintained by historyforkids.org.

Ancient Greek Civilization
Learn about Greek land and resources, culture, mythology, daily life, mathematics and more.

The Ancient Greek World
Visit the different time periods in Ancient Greek times or visit their daily life (including men's and women's lives, schooling, housing, hunting and warfare), economy (including coins, trade and manufacturing) and religion and death (including heroes, banquets, and burials).

The Ancient Olympics
What sports were at the ancient Olympics? Take a virtual tour and find out.

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology
Click on Index, then on the letter of the topic you are interested in and the site will take you there.

Map of Homeric Greece
A map of Greece during Homer's time.

Proteacher.com: Ancient Greece
This link provides numerous lesson plan ideas and fun activities pertaining to ancient Greece.
 

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