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After picking up your spiral, complete on your warm up pages in your spiral…Warm Up What are the 3 important factors to
creating a settlement? Prediction on where you believe people
decided to settle in Ancient Greek times? Make sure to support your answer.
Spiral Set Up Title page 68: Unit 5: Greece
Write the Essential Question under the title: Essential Question: Students will be able to
analyze and Discuss the impact of Greece and its influence on today’s world.
Take the green highlighter and highlight the top of page 68
Spiral Set Up Title page 67 Key Vocab Write the following words down:
Peninsula Isolated Communities Trade Settlement Shelter Colonist Merchant City States Monarch Aristocrat Oligarch Tyrant Democracy Citizen Assembly
Geography and Settle of Greece
Learning Target Student will be able to read and interpret maps in order
to learn about key physical features of ancient Greece. The purpose of this is to understand the unique ways in
which those features affected not only the interaction between ancient Greek communities, but also the interaction between the ancient Greeks and people from other cultures.
This means that through a Visual Discovery activity, students examine and analyze thematic maps to learn about the physical geography of ancient Greece and how it influenced the development of Greek civilization.
Key Vocabulary Peninsula Aegean Sea Isolated Communities Trade Settlement Shelter Colonist Merchant
Picture Analysis Looking at the image on page 246
Describe the Geographical features you notice in this picture.
What are Advantages/Disadvantages of living here??
Recreating the Mainland Activity
Directions Re-create the area of mainland Greece.
create a 6-by-8-foot rectangle on the floor that it represents the area of mainland Greece.
Introduce the physical geography of Greece
Greece does not have any major rivers, but is surrounded on three sides by seas.
The bottom and the sides of the rectangle simulate the coastline of Greece, look were the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian seas are located
DiscussionHow did the physical geography affect where ancient Greeks settled?
Directions Settling Greece.
12 students are to settle Greece by standing anywhere they want inside the rectangle
Why did you settle in this particular area? Do you have enough space?
What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement
Directions The mountains and settlers moving.
Create mountains by placing two chairs in the center of the top third of the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.
Settlers must move to a more suitable area
Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?
What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement
Directions The mountains and settlers moving.
Create mountains by placing two chairs in the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.
Settlers must move to a more suitable area
Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?
What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement
Directions The mountains and settlers moving.
Create mountains by placing two chairs in the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.
Settlers must move to a more suitable area
Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?
Directions Simulating the islands and having settlers move.
Reexamine the map
What other physical features do you see on the map? About how many islands do you think there are?
Create islands by placing four or five pieces of scrap paper on the floor, near the bottom and sides of the rectangle. Would any of the settlers want the option of moving to these
islands?
Settlers, why did you choose to move or to stay where you are?
Request/ Respondent Cards25.2- 25.4
Debrief-Answer the following questions in complete sentences on page 71What are the advantages of the physical geography of Greece?
What are the disadvantages?
In what ways does the physical geography create challenges for human settlement?
How might people deal with these challenges?
Geography Challenge
Remember… Greece has a unique geography that
influenced where people settled and how they lived. For example, the mountainous land and the lack of major rivers made farming difficult.
Takeaway In a CER paragraph, how did geography
influence settlement and way of life in Ancient Greece?