GREECE: Discovering Greece Bundle

Enrich your studies of Greece and its ancient culture—and save 20%— with the Discovering Greece Bundle, which includes an introductory book, SIX cross-curricular activities and a colorful Symbols of Greece photo poster.

Book and Poster Resources Included:

• Snapshots of Greece introduces the location, national flag, and ancient and modern-day symbols of Greece, along with common phrases in Greek. Each book in the Snapshots series also includes a crossword vocabulary/comprehension review.
• Symbols of Greece is an 11 x 17 inch poster that illustrates six national and cultural symbols with colorful photographs.

Cross-Curricular Activities Included:

• Ancient Mythology compares and contrasts the ancient Greek, Norse, and Roman gods and includes a word search puzzle.
• Democracy uses a fill-in-the-blank format to highlight the world’s first democracy.
• Greek City-States highlights the identifying characteristics of six Greek city-states, as students match descriptions with cut-and-glue symbols.
• Greek or Roman? Venn is a cut-and-glue Venn diagram that identifies similarities and differences between the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
• Mapping Greece challenges students to use critical thinking skills as they use a map key and compass to complete a map of Greece.
• The Greek Alphabet is a decoding activity that includes a Greek alphabet chart.

Greek Words and Phrases: (includes phonetic pronunciations)

hello-yassou, goodbye-adio, please-parakalo, thank you-efcharisto, yes-nai, no-oxi

Additional Vocabulary Words and Phrases:

acronym, Acropolis, ancient, architect, citizen, city-state, civilization, Colossus of Rhodes, democracy, election, immortal, Mt. Olympus, mythology, Parthenon, peninsula, replica, sanctuary, truce, Zeus

Targeted Skills:

• Promoting respect and appreciation for cultural differences
• Identifying ancient and modern-day symbols of Greece
• Using a map key and compass rose to complete a map
• Identifying characteristics of Greek city-states
• Comparing ancient Greek and modern-day American democracies
• Comparing the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations
• Comparing Greek, Norse, and Roman mythologies
• Writing the Greek alphabet
• Following written directions
• Matching descriptions with illustrations
• Building content-area literacy in social studies
• Critical thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, and analysis
• Reading fluency and comprehension

Sample Pages: Please see the preview for sample pages from the book and Activity Pack.

Image Credits: This bundle features realistic illustrations and real-life photographs. The illustrations are my own original drawings (©Dr.J). The photos come from a variety of sources, including copyright-free images, copyrighted images licensed under the Creative Commons, and copyrighted images that I have purchased for commercial use. Please see the Image Credits Pages, included with the Activity Pack, for a detailed list of image sources.

Technical Info: The files are in PDF format. The activities are combined into a single zip file.

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Upgrade and Save Even More: These resources are also included in two larger bundles:

• SAVE 25% with the Exploring the Culture of Greece SUPER-Bundle, which contains everything in the Discovering Bundle, PLUS two Greek language books that use cultural symbols of Greece to teach color names and number words from 1-10.
• SAVE 30% with the Discovering Countries and Cultures Around the World MEGA-Bundle, which includes Snapshots books and Activity Packs for more than thirty countries around the world, PLUS the entire Holiday Traditions Around the World series as the FREE bonus.

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RELATED RESOURCES:

• Learn to Count in GREEK
• Our Colorful World in GREEK
• Let’s Explore the Continent of EUROPE POWERPOINT

COUNTRIES IN THE DISCOVERING COUNTRIES AND CULTURES SERIES:

AFRICA: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST: China, India, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam

AUSTRALIA: Australia, New Zealand

EUROPE: France, Germany, Greece, Ireland (FREE), Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom

NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS: Cherokee, Chippewa, Comanche and Shoshone (FREE), Iroquois, Navajo, Pacific Northwest nations, Pueblo nations, Sioux

NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States

SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru

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