Delphi’s Guide to Athens can be used across the curriculum.  There’s no right or wrong way to use this resource, but here’s a few ideas to get you started:

History:

• Child-friendly research: Use the index to guide children to the section of the site you’d like them to research.  This could be completed in individually, in pairs or groups, as part of a class project or for homework.

• Chronology: Use the timeline (at the Acropolis) to teach the history and chronology of Ancient Athens, including what Athens was like during Roman times.

• Source work: Use the photographs and pictures to discuss how historians learn about the past, and how certain we can be about historical information and representations.

• Mythology: Use the pages about the Greek gods to teach about Greek religion and beliefs.

• Famous people: Investigate famous figures such as Socrates or Pericles by exploring the stories around the site.

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Philosophy:

• Class discussions and enquiries: Use the big questions in each location to have a class discussion and encourage responses.  Use the responses of the characters to show examples and introduce different ideas. 

• Philosophy lessons: For a full philosophy scheme of work, we’d recommend using Delphi the Philosopher to teach children the skills they need – but this resource is perfect to extend their skills alongside or beyond this (or any other) scheme of work.

• Select questions: Explore the site and let children choose the questions they’d like to explore or write their own based on each place.

• Famous philosophers: Start to teach the important ideas of philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Diogenes.

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English:

• Class novel: Read the stories like a choose-your-own adventure class novel.  You could spend each session in one location, using the pictures for comprehension and the big question for discussion.  Then vote where you should go next time!

• Reading comprehension: Use the short stories or non-fiction sections for practising retrieval or inference skills.

• Writing: Why not try writing a response to the big questions?  Or writing a non-fiction text about the information about what they have learned?  Or even continue one of Delphi’s stories with what happened next?

• Mythology: The texts about the Greek gods would work perfectly as model texts or comprehension texts alongside an English unit on Greek myths.

• Drama: Act out important gatherings in the city, like at the Assembly in the Pnyx or the law courts in the Agora.  Or hotseat being a god and carry on Delphi's conversation!

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