ANCIENT GREECE

Today we learned about the Ancient civilization of Greece.  Becky and Rachel opened up with a video of Hercules.  The students were really excited to embark on their journey of Greece.  It was great how they paused during the video clip to remind students of a few key points to remember for later in the lesson I really liked the voting activity they did with the students having them come up to the smart board to participate.  It was a great way to demonstrate voting rights by only allowing those students who had long sleeves the right to vote.  They did a fantastic job getting the students to chorally respond throughout the lesson plan.  The students were so engaged using the thumbs up and thumps down tool to participate.

       During their inquiry lesson plan they did an exciting activity where they had the students solve a riddle to discover which Greek God or Goddess they had.  The students were given various websites to go through to research information and look for clues.  All of the students seemed to really enjoy this part of the lesson plan and really liked using the computers.

       The final activity they had the students do was to create their own Glogster.  Glogster is a really fascinating tool that you can use to create a digital poster.  I had never really used Glogster before seeing in their presentation.  The students were really into creating their own posters.  I can tell that if they had more time they would have added so many more things.