Museums are storehouse of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient Greece provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of Greece. These projects and activities highlights the economic, pollical, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based.
Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups:
- Relief sculptures and friezes
- Hoplite shields
- Greek columns
- Ancient Greek clothing and jewelry
- Greek mosaics
- Ancient Greek vases
- Inventions such as Archimedes' screw and the catapult
- Greek frescoes
- A Trojan horse