Ancient Greece Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 HistoryAncient Greece1 page

About this worksheet

A one-page Year 5 knowledge organiser on Ancient Greek life, achievements and legacy. Four panels cover daily life, key achievements, the city-states and legacy. Pupils read that boys went to school while girls were often taught at home, that the Olympic Games began at Olympia in 776 BC, and how Athens and Sparta differed. Pictures include a bust of Socrates, the Parthenon, a Spartan warrior and a Greek vase with running athletes. There are no questions and no answer key. It supports the England National Curriculum study of Greek life and its influence on the western world.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Ancient Greece

“Ancient Greece - a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world”

All four panels cover Greek life and achievements, and the Legacy panel covers their influence today.

What's inside this worksheet

Daily Life

Five points on city-states, homes, school, work, and a diet of bread, olives, fruit, vegetables and fish.

Key Achievements

Democracy, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Archimedes, Homer and Sophocles, and the Olympic Games.

The City-States

Athens for democracy and learning, Sparta for its army and tough training, and the shared language and religion.

Legacy

Where Greek ideas show up today, from democracy and science to theatre and the Olympic Games every four years.

How teachers use it

Start of the topic

Stick a copy in each book on day one so pupils can look up Athens, Sparta and 776 BC.

Partner quiz

Pairs cover one panel and quiz each other on it, for example naming the three philosophers.

Athens or Sparta

Use the City-States panel to set up a debate on which city pupils would rather grow up in.

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