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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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?
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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- 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?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Ancient Greece & Rome
- Age range
- Ages 5–7