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Year 7 Project: A Time Traveller discovers the secrets of Ancient Greece

This last programme of tasks for this school year will focus on weaving the following skills in a meaningful and relevant way:

Literacy—see handout/post it notes, to structure research, summarising and, persuasive and report writing;

Numeracy—developing numerical reasoning, calculating negative numbers;

Digital competence/ ICT—research, planning and creating, communicating and computational thinking.

We have built this project around of the core purposes of the New Curriculum of Wales:

Enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full part in life and work;

Ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world;

Healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

Outline of the Project:

You will take on the role as the intrepid Time Traveller. In your Time Machine, you land in

Ancient Greece. In order to get back to Wales in 2020 you must unlock the secrets of Ancient

Greece. You will be set tasks and each task will get you closer to home. Good Luck!

TASKS:

You land in Ancient Greece on 6th July and to get back to Wales by the 17th July you must

complete the following six tasks:

Important information if you are returning to school:

If you are returning to school, you will attend one day a week

for a duration of three hours.

You will be able to carry out research. Make sure you plan your

work the afternoon before your arrival to school. You will be

there for 3 hours so use it wisely.

You have permission to use your Smart Phone for research,

however, if you misuse your phone, you will be told to

switch it off.

Presenting your work:

You may use a range of software programs

e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint or Word; or

paper based; or a combination of both.

Email your work to:

7MW: Mrs Badham 7MK: Mr Owen/Tibbs

7HL: Mr Richards 7JJ: Mrs Hughes

7AM: Miss Harris 7ER: Mr Thomas

Task Task Details

1 A Doctor’s appointment led by Hippocrates

2 The Gods’ Challenge

3 Complete the puzzles

4 Deliver a Fable

5 Archimedes, the Mathematician & Inventor

6 Exit back through the Map of Antiquity

Remember SPaG:

Spelling

Punctuation and

Grammar

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WEEK 1: Welcome to Ancient Greece. Meet Hippocrates: the father of Modern Medicine

You are going to study Greek Medicine, in particular, Hippocrates. He believed in a theory known as

the ‘four humours’ .

You will role play and imagine that you are a Greek Doctor, who has studied Hippocrates’ ideas. You

have your own doctor’s surgery in ancient Athens, the capital of Greece. Four patients will be

visiting your surgery with a variety of illnesses. Using what you have learnt from your research, you

will decide how best to treat them.

Task 1: Hippocrates

Find out as much as you can about this great ancient Greek, Hippocrates.

What were his four key contributions to modern medicine?

Task 2: The Four Humours Produce your own diagram/drawing of the four humours. Use a different colour for each humour, label it clearly. Use your amazing ICT/drawing skills to achieve this. Write a brief description of the theory, using no more than 80 words. Remember to use the summarising skills you have been taught (approximately 20 words per humour).

Task 3—Let’s start diagnosing! You have an amazing reputation for being a highly respected doctor in Athens, after all you were trained by

the great Hippocrates.

It’s a very busy day and your have four different patients to attend to. All have different ‘ailments’. As a doctor

you have to recall each of these appointments. You have to describe the symptoms of each patient. You have

to explain how you treated each one. Use the theory of the four humours.

You can present the appointments as an interview, or in a chart, of if you are feeling very brave, you could

record them (maybe a member of your family could be the patient!).

Challenge Task:

What is an asclepion? Write one sentence

to describe.

Find two images of an asclepion—one will

be a reconstruction (artist’s impression)

and the other will be its remains.

Label the diagrams, and identify where in

Greece it was found.

She is a flower seller

from Andros.

She has been feeling

faint and has

anaemia. This has

made the patient

very sleepy and dizzy.

Patient 1: Persephone

Which humour does each patient have an imbalance of and why? What would you advise to rebalance the humours?

Aesop is a writer

from Asine. He has

become ill with

swollen hands and

painful joints. He

cannot write as he is

in a lot of pain.

Patient 2: Aesop

Stavros is a kebab

seller from Kos.

Lately he had to

close his stall as he

has been wheezing

and cannot get his

breath.

Patient 3: Stavros A mathematician from Samos. He has a tummy ache and doesn’t want to eat. He cannot go to the toilet. He has prayed to the goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia but it hasn’t worked.

Patient 4: Pythagoras

Literacy skills to use:

Researching

Persuasive

Check your SPaG

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WEEK 1: THE GODS’ CHALLENGE

Task 2: Research the creation story of Greek Mythology and

recreate it in story board or comic strip form.

You can either draw your own pictures or create them

using ICT.

Use this link to help you, or YouTube ‘creation in Greek

mythology’.

Task 1: Research the main Gods / Goddesses of Greek

Mythology then EITHER complete this

worksheet (feel free to create your own

presentation) or

Create your own family tree (refer to example)

using the same criteria on the worksheet.

Click here for information

about Gods and Goddesses

Greek Name Roman Name Realm Symbol Facts / Characteristics

Zeus

Poseidon

Athena

Apollo

Artemis

Aphrodite

Hermes

Ares

Hephaestrus

Demeter

According to Greek mythology, there

was only empty darkness in the

beginning. The only thing that existed

was Nyx, a bird with black wings, until

Eros, the god of love, emerged from the

golden egg it had laid.

Challenge Task: What was the role of the Olympian

god, Zeus, in times of chaos?

Who were the Titans and the

Giants?

Literacy skills to use:

Researching

Summarising

Check your SPaG

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WEEK 1: PUZZLES AND CODE

This lolly is in the

shape of a tetrahedron.

How many angles on

each side?

Children learn to

ride on tricycles

This weird

shape is called

an enneagram

Honeycomb is

made up of

hexagonal cells

These guys are having a duel

TASK 1: KNOW YOUR GREEK ALPHABET

How many years

in a decade

TASK 2: Greek Numbers Quiz

Ancient Greek number words are very

good at sneaking into modern English.

See if you can use all the clues to

work them out!

Write the numbers in the circles.

Use the Greek numerals to write out

today’s date and your birth date..

A Letter home to Athens

Spiros the Clueless has written a letter using the Greek

alphabet to his family back home in Athens. Sadly, his

spelling is not very good.

Circle the mistakes in Spiros’ first letter—there are four

errors in all, by comparing them with his second letter,

which has been corrected by his uncle, Borios the Brainy.

Use this chart to help you write your own

letter home. Explain what’s happened

and that you have to complete six tasks

to get back home to Wales.

Today’s date:

Birth Date:

Literacy skills to use:

Report writing

Check your SPaG

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WEEK 2

Aesop’s Fables: stories of a slave.

Aesop was a slave in ancient Greece who earned his freedom by telling fables.

In the education of ancient Greeks, fables were known as a ‘progymnasmata’ -

exercises that trained students in writing and public speaking.

They learnt the fables, expanded on them and invented their own in persuasive speeches.

Choose at least two of these fables. Listen to the audio clips and read the transcript:

1. Your first task is to write a persuasive speech for one of the fables. Include the importance of

the key themes and lessons learned. Write out your speech, use on your family and give their

feedback.

2. With the second fable, using comic style imagery and speech bubbles, recite the story.

End the story with the moral and key themes. What have you learnt?

Fable Key themes/moral lesson Transcript and Audio Clip

The Boy who cried wolf Playing tricks and Honesty

The Farmer’s daughter Vanity, Greed, Distraction, Fantasy Vs Reality

Friends Friendship. Selfishness and self-interest.

Trust and betrayal. Mercy

The Gnat Bravado. Gloating

The Old Man, Boy and Donkey Fairness. Kindness. Judgement.

The Slave and the Lion Friendship and kindness. Memory. Mercy.

Repayment.

The Vain Crow Pride. Vanity. Theme of flattery.

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Literacy skills to use:

Persuasive

Summarising

Check your SPaG

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Week 2: Archimedes, the God of Mathematics and Inventions

Archimedes Screw c. 3rd Century BC This device, capable of lifting solid or liquid substances from a lower

plane to a higher elevation, is traditionally attributed to the Greek

mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse.

Task [click here for a web link] Research Greek inventions and compare the inventions to their evolved modern day version. Use the table opposite to add an image of the original Greek creation and the modern equivalent. Under each version of the invention write a short report about the creation to show how it has evolved. Use the questions below to give your report focus:

Ancient Greek Invention When was it invented? Work out how many years ago from 2020. Why was it invented? What materials did they use? How was it used? How successful was it?

Modern Equivalent What key features have changed? How is it used compared to the old version? What materials are used today? Is the new version better? How? How is technology involved?

Greek Invention: _______________

Challenge:

Describe the

type of maths

& science

involved!

Modern Invention: _______________

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Check out Pythagoras!

The ancient Greeks are responsible for many different types of inventions

such as: streets, cranes, plumbing, lighthouses, canal locks, showers, cannon,

analog computers, alarm clocks and many, many more.

Their forward thinking helped build civilisation as we know it today. Use your research skills

to find how the Ancient Greeks, particularly, Archimedes, influence the modern world.

Literacy skills to use:

Researching

Report Writing

Check your SPaG

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Week 2: One last task!

Task B

Describe the geography of

Ancient Greece using this image:

Task A

What can you say about the climate of

Ancient Greece using this image:

Task C Label on the map:

Literacy skills to use:

Researching

Check your SPaG