Wednesday, May 29, 2013

What is Greece All About?

Below is a link to a short video on the history of democracy in Ancient Greece and how it developed in Athens. This video was made by National Geographic.  

http://www.natgeoeducationvideo.com/film/1012/ancient-greece

See if you can find United States in the list? See if you can find some of the countries we have studied or made reference to this year?  Egypt? Israel? Pakistan? India?

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2128.html

Map of Greece:
http://maps.google.com/maps?gs_rn=14&gs_ri=psy-ab&pq=map+of+italy&cp=9&gs_id=iq&xhr=t&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47008514,d.dmQ&biw=1075&bih=564&q=map+of+greece&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x135b4ac711716c63:0x363a1775dc9a2d1d,Greece&gl=us&sa=X&ei=Q7-lUeL6LNGw4APlpoDQBw&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ8gEwAA


Where do some of words come from?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/gameGreekToMe.htm

Go For the Gold
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/reporter/index.asp

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