Ancient Olympics!

Middle school are starting a new topic on the Olympics in Social Studies. This dovetails nicely with our study on democracy as the ancient Greeks used a system of democracy similar to ours. Before learning about the modern games the class are learning about the formation of the ancient games.




Today, they have learnt about the Greek city states and how the games started as a way of avoiding war between them! Now, one group is researching the city states...


One group is researching the very first games...




And another group is researching the different events held at the games...




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