Mrs. Wheeler

 Students will label and identify the most important Greek city-states, the Persian Empire, and Macedonia.  Students will identify the modern countries that comprise the Persian Empire and Macedonia.  Students will make historical hypotheses based upon interpretations of a map.

 Greece map blank sheet  Greece questions sheet  Geography challenge question cards  Colored pencils

 In the Greece Geography Challenge, students will preview the key places and events that students will encounter in this unit. In the activity students will read and interpret a specialty map to learn about the physical geography of ancient Greece and Persia and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Working in pairs, they answer questions while labeling and coloring a map of an area that extends from Greece to the Indus River. Afterward, they discuss their conclusions as a class.

 You will be working in groups to complete the challenge  Each group will start out with one challenge card  You will read the question on the card and answer in complete sentence then you will follow the directions for labeling or coloring your map  When you are finished with the card you have you may return the card to the card station and pick up a new one. Continue until you have completed all questions.

 What do you now know about Greece that you didn't know before?  What information from this map do you think will be most important in our study of Greece?  What questions about Greece were left unanswered by the map you studied?