Ancient Greece WebQuest
- Grades
- Grades 7–10, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, History: Ancient
- Topic
- Ancient Greece, webquest
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- CCSS.W.8.7 CCSS.RI.8.9
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This resource is an Ancient Greece WebQuest.
Students will do their independent investigation to better understand the culture, geography, and ideologies of Ancient Greece.
There are 10 tasks that will take students to the internet and then bring them back to the worksheet to complete graphic organizers, comprehension questions and more.
Answer key included.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Research and answer questions about Ancient Greek culture using teacher-provided external links.
Compare boys' and girls' lives in Ancient Greece using a five-point Venn diagram.
Compare Ancient Greek demokratia to modern democracy.
Explain how geography and religion shaped daily life in Ancient Greece.
Teaching tips
Verify each external link before assigning, since several URLs use older goo.gl and tinyurl shortlinks that may need updating.
Have students complete the Venn diagram in Task 2 before a class discussion, since it requires five points in each section.
Use the Travel Journal wrap-up page as a quick exit ticket to see which topics need revisiting.
Skills covered
Web research — students visit external websites and videos linked in the file to answer each task's questions.
Compare-and-contrast reasoning — students complete a Venn diagram on gender roles and compare ancient and modern democracy.
Note-taking and summarization — students record three to five facts per task across ten research topics.
Reflective synthesis — students identify new facts, surprises, and a lingering question in the Travel Journal wrap-up.
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What kind of research does the WebQuest require?
Students visit external websites and videos linked directly in the file — such as History.com articles and a mythology teacher's site — to answer each task's questions.
How does the Travel Journal wrap up the WebQuest?
Students list four new facts and three surprises, draw a picture symbolizing Ancient Greece, and write one lingering question about the topic.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- CCSS.W.8.7 — Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
- CCSS.RI.8.9 — Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Core concepts
Core concepts
Ancient Greek culture
Greek democracy
Sparta and Greek warfare
Greek mythology and religion
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