Webliography of Ancient Greece and Rome
Compiled by Katherine Yaksich
March 3, 2008
This Webliography is designed to help secondary education Social Studies
teachers when doing units on Ancient Greece and Rome. All of these sites can
be useful to students and teachers alike. They contain items such as pictures,
timelines, webquests, museums, stories, lesson and activity ideas, as well as
ready-to-go PowerPoint presentations.
1. Ancient-Greece: Teacher & Students Resources
http://www.ancient-greece.org/resources/educational.html
* This website has information on it that would be very useful for students who
are doing research projects or making presentations to the class. Teachers could
also use this website for supplemental material to write their lessons with. This
website offers timelines, pictures, posters for classrooms, and vast quantities of
information on people, places, monuments, math and theater development.
Most of the pages also have links to other websites with similar information just
presented in a different manner.
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This website is actually really great to navigate. Items are all labeled
and all of the links that I clicked worked. There are many pictures but
most of them are in their own area as so they do not distract from the
other elements that the pages have to offer. This site should probably
be used for high school students because some of the language is
upper-level reading. One other possible drawback of this site is that
because it is so huge it may be hard to narrow down or find the
information you are looking for if you are in a time crunch.
2. Mr. Donn’s Ancient Greece
http://www.ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/AncientGreece.html
* Mr. Donn’s Ancient Greece website is part of a much larger website that has
just about every Social Studies topic known to man listed on it with resources for
teachers and students. This site includes lesson plans, information for students,
PowerPoint presentations ready made for teachers to use, and an extensive clip
art collection. This website is completely free and includes information on Greek
myths, daily life, city-state development, and government.
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In my opinion, Mr. Donn’s is the best website for educators to get
information quickly and accurately while making your lessons
extremely interesting. The lesson plans are really not complete enough
to use by themselves in New York State but they are excellent jump off
points to use to develop your own lessons. The students are able to
navigate this site easily and the language used is very learner friendly.
Approximately 90% of the PowerPoint presentations work with no errors
and some of them even have music. The clip art section is easily
identified and all of the pictures are labeled. The best part about this
site is that it is free, but that brings about the worst part, the
advertisements.
3. Greek Mythology for Educators
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/greekmyths.htm
* This site is a databank with links to other very useful sites on Ancient Greece.
There are dozens of sites listed under the categories; Greek Mythology, The
Heroes, Ancient Greece History, Ancient Olympics, Trojan War, Greek Art &
Architecture, WebQuests, Homer (The Iliad, the Odyssey), Famous Places, and
Lesson Plans. This site is mostly for use by teachers until you can narrow down
what you want your students to use.
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This website appears as though it was some sort of project like this one
where people took as many websites on this topic that they could find
and they put them on one places. This site is good because it covers a
huge range of topics, centering on Greek Mythology and Myths. Some
of the links include games, facts, plays, and worksheets that are good
activities to use. The drawback of this website is that there really is a lot
of links to look at and analyze. It will take time to check everything to
see if you want to use it or not.
4. Daily Life in Ancient Greece
http://members.aol.com/bkdonnclass/Greeklife.html
* This is a unique website because it gives the viewer information that you
normally do not find or discuss because it is not required in the curriculum per se.
However, it is this information that sometimes draws the students in and makes
them want to learn more. Some of the topics include; Greek families, clothing
and hair styles, school, toys, pets, weddings, Greek houses, dance, stories, deities,
and food.
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This website is very unique, it has neat information that anyone would
find interesting, especially the kid who hates history class. The text is
easy to read and each section is clearly labeled. In addition, all of the
links posted work properly.
5. MacroGram: For Educators, Principals & Teacher-Trainers
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/MarcoGrams/Aug2004.html
* This is website provides warm-up activities and lesson plans that are based
off of four main themes. These themes are; exploring Greek mythology, using
Greek equations to solve geometry problems, looking at the similarities between
the Greek alphabet and our own, and finally looking at how ancient civilizations
use natural resources. This website provides links for resources for these questions
in all grade levels and incorporates higher order thinking levels.
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This website I really like because it lets the students see how history can
still be used today. It also incorporates real-world examples to what we
have learned. This website provides detailed instructions on how to
relate each subject area to each of the grade levels, really excellent.
6. Kidipede – History for Kids: Ancient Rome
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans
* This website has a limited amount of general information about Ancient
Roman civilizations. This website also provides crafts and project ideas to simulate
Roman activities, and also a teacher’s unit development guide, which has
questions to ask yourself as you are developing your unit on Ancient Rome.
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The topics are labeled well on this site, if you can find them. The
amount of advertisements on this site is almost out of control. About
half of the website is ads and the other is basic information. The reader
sometimes needs to scroll down half of the whole site just to get to a
menu. There are not a lot of pictures, but enough to keep someone
interested. This website is probably not the best to use in a classroom
setting.
7. Ancient Rome
http://www.teacheroz.com/romans.htm
* This site is another compilation site that has hundreds of links to other sites
having to do with Ancient Rome. Some of the topics include; timeline, glossaries,
maps, complete history, Emperors, daily life, engineering, warfare, and the fall of
the Roman Empire. Each section has dozens of links below to access.
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This website is entirely too huge and needs to be redone. Many of the
links no longer work, and the majority of the information is written at a
college level. It would take days to go through all of the information on
this website and you would only find a fraction of what you would
really want to use in your classroom.
8. The Colosseum
http://web.tiscali.it/Colosseum/idx-en.htm
* This website gives an overview of the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. The
topics covered include; History of, The Games, Architecture, Other Links. There is
interesting information on this website that is a little harder to read (high school
only), but information the students really like learning about. This site has a lot of
pictures and the links provide ways to other good sites on the Colosseum.
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This site is short and sweet. The students should have no problem
navigating it on their own to explore the Colosseum during an activity.
There is good page breakup and the links work and are very useful.
9. Ancient Rome
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DarleneBishop/rome/Rome.html
* This is a concise website developed by a teacher on a personal trip. It
includes many pictures from the places visited and basic information about
each place. These include; Rome’s Beginning, The Colosseum, Forums,
Architecture, and Pompeii.
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This is a good website to use with your kids in the classroom because it
is short and colorful. However, the information should be checked for
accuracy because there are no resources. The teacher also requests
that you notify and request her for permission if you are to ever use any
of the material.
10. Ancient Rome
http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/262/27
* This is another website that covers everything you wanted to know about
Rome. There are about 100 links to other sites listed on this page.
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There are many problems with t his page, it claims to be kids friendly
but it is definitely not. Three are neither pictures nor categories for
someone to choose from to try and cipher some of the chaos away.
All of the links are just listed with no description of what they could
really be. Also, many of the links have either moved or they are no
longer available.