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The Big Idea Activity

How do new ideas cause change?

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  California Standard 6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews. California Standard 6.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.

Students working on the Activity

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Emphasize that ideas, such as democracy and monotheism, have as much effect on the culture as scientific discoveries and new ways of doing things.

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Students report on an idea or discovery from ancient Greece or Israel.

Alphabet and writing (case study)

This is a teacher's guide to accompany a PBS program on ancient Israel, but it has ideas that can be used without the video.

A wide range of information on ancient Israel ? also useful for the "Day in the Life" activity.

Here's a teacher's guide to a similar project, a newspaper in ancient Athens.

Activities and links related to ancient Greece.


A Young Person's Life in Ancient Israel

  California Standard 6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

Jerusalem

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Activities and information related to life in ancient Israel.

A Web page with several good links to information about ancient Israel.

A woman's life in ancient Israel, with general information about the home.


Pericles

  California Standard 6.4.2 Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, including the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship [MORE]

Acropolis

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More information about Pericles and his times.