A Day at the Olympics Overview Students explore an online resource and learn how athletes from different ancient Greek city-states would behave at the Olympic Games. Objective Students will learn about the lifestyles, attitudes and behavior of people in an ancient civilization. Materials A Day at the Olympics worksheet .
Procedures Begin the lesson by having students share knowledge about the Olympic Games.
Tell students that they are going to write a screenplay for a television drama about the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. Then take students online to the Mrs. Donn's Special Sections Daily Life in Ancient Greece website. Have students form pairs or small groups and distribute the A Day at the Olympics worksheet . Tell students to read the profiles of the Olympic participants from each city-state and to use the worksheet to take notes on them. These notes will help students develop characters for their screenplay later on.