Ancient life vs today
Compare how children in ancient Greece or Rome lived with how children live today — including differences in school (writing on wax tablets, learning to fight in Sparta), food (olives, bread, grapes), games, and clothing (tunics and sandals) — and understand these civilisations existed thousands of years ago
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Ancient life vs today means comparing children’s lives in ancient Greece or Rome with today across school, food, clothes, and games. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Materials: Then/Now chart: school, food, clothes, games; Optional props: bread idea, sandal/tunic sketch. 1. Say these civilisations were thousands of years ago. 2. Fill Then: wax tablets / olives-bread-grapes / tunics-sandals; Now: modern school tools / familiar foods / everyday clothes. 3. Add one game compare (ancient play vs today’s play). 4. Fresh check: child answers one new prompt on the same idea. Record and stop. Done: Ask for one Then/Now pair. Proof: parent note of examples tried and support used. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
Use two identified Roman-period objects to make bounded comparisons with a supplied modern example.
Use two identified Roman-period objects to make bounded comparisons with a supplied modern example.
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Compare ancient Greek/Roman childhood with life today.
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Ancient Greece
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- Name two ways a child's life in ancient Greece or Rome was different from today
- Describe what ancient Greek or Roman children might have eaten or worn
- Say that these civilisations existed thousands of years ago — long before grandparents were born
“Could your child tell you what it might have been like to be a child in ancient Greece or Rome — what they wore, ate, or did at school — and how it was different from today?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Ancient Greece & Rome
- Age range
- Ages 5–7