Greek WebQuest Directions

How the Greece Webquest Works!

9/15/2016

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This is a three week exploratory unit on Greece. The focus of this unit is the following State Of Ohio Standards:

1. Quest one addresses: Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.
2. Quest two addresses: Greek Democracy (and the Roman Republic were ) was a radical departures from monarchy and theocracy, influencing the modern (USA and Others) structure of democratic governments.
3. Quest three address: The civilizations that developed in Greece (and Rome) had an enduring impact on later civilizations. This legacy includes governance and law, engineering and technology, art and architecture, as well as literature and history.

Important Directions:
There are three quests to this WebQuest. Each quest has the same format. YOU MUST start at the top of each Quest and complete each part in order as you can move at your own pace. TIMELINES, will be assigned and you will need to make sure required parts of the webquest are due by each day--you can work ahead of these timelines. Each part of the quest is labeled in YELLOW. Please follow the directions below carefully!!!

1. The Blog portion of each quest will be typed on your social  studies blog. Vocabulary will be on the quizstar quiz (you should use several vocabulary words in your blog post.)
2. All of your answers to the Questions must be kept on a Google Doc (MAKE A COPY)   document.
3. You must click the appropriate buttons to complete the Computer-Side Chat
     (CSC) questions after listening to each Computer-Side Chat
4. You must complete the quest Quiz by clicking the Quiz button
     BEFORE THE DUE DATE (due date will be assigned by your teacher)
5. You will be given class time to read and comment on your Blog Buddies blog
     entries.

Each Quest has five parts:
1. Vocabulary
2. Computer Side Chat and google form
3. Questions (saved as a google doc)
4. Quiz (quizstar--only take once)
5. Blog: on your weebly account.

Scoring and Blog Entries (rubric):
1. Points will be given for each Quest task as follows:
    A. 5-12 points for listening to the Computer-Side Chat and answer questions GRADE WILL BE EMAILED WITH CORRECT/INCORRECT ANSWERS.
    B. 20-30 points for each quiz--QUIZSTAR WILL AUTO GRADE AS SOON AS YOU TAKE THIS.
C. Spot checks of your blog--10 points. At the end of the unit you will pick one blog to be graded (from the three) on the rubric for 25 points.

2. Blog entries will be scored based on the following rubric:
    A.  1 points for: Using "Paragraph with an image".
    B. 4 points for: Leaving Positive Digital Footprints Worth Following
                *Title, complete sentences, good use of grammar, etc.
    C. 8 points for using vocabulary terms correctly in your blog
    D. 7 points for: Answering the Blog Questions completely
    E.   3 points for: Adding 3 additional images with captions
    F. 1 points for: adding additional multimedia (videos, Vokis, animation, etc)
G. 1 point for categories for each post: Greece Geography, Greece Government or enduring impacts

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TASK TWO: Greek Government: Direct Democracy and Oligarchy

9/15/2016

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Essential
Questions: (You do not have to answer these)

1. Greek Democracy (and the Roman Republic were ) was a radical departures from monarchy and theocracy, influencing the modern (USA and Others) structure of democratic governments.
2. How do civilizations choose their government?
3. Why are there different forms of government?

1. Computer-Side Chat:

Beachwood CSC Questions

Dublin CSC Questions

2. Vocabulary:

1. Democracy (what does the word mean?)
2. Direct Democracy
3. Representative Democracy
4. Oligarchy
5. Theocracy
6. Monarchy
7. Polis
8. Classic Age of Greece:
9. Divine Right of Kings --Not in quizlet cards.

3. Questions:
Helpful Starting Points.
This PowerPoint will help:
â€‹Teacher-web one:
Mr. Donn Greece:
Simplified version Sparta vs. Athens.

a. Describe what happens in a Direct Democracy when a decision has to be made.
Watch the video above: Athenian Democracy. Another perspective of Democracy!

b. Describe how an Oligarchy makes decisions.

c. Which type of government does your city-state use?

d. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages about your government?

e. Compare and contrast Oligarchy and Direct Democracy.

f. Who could be a citizen in the city-state of Athens? What about in Sparta?

g. What were the rights of citizens in the city-state of Sparta? What about Athens?

h. Compare and contrast the rights of other groups of people (non-citizens) in Sparta and Athens?

i. How did each city-state's government (Sparta and Athens) keep one person from having too much power?

j. Do you think that this country (The U.S.A.)could have a direct democracy? Explain your answer

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS: Opened the day before the quiz

4. Blog:

Blog Rubric and general outline:
GOOGLE DOC, File then Make Copy Click here

1. Vocabulary use as many vocabulary as possible in your blog post.

2. As you are roaming around the city-state looking and listening to everything that is going on, you overhear someone say that the government is going to make a decision, (You create something that they are voting on). You follow a group of people to the town square to watch what happens. Describe how the government makes its decision. Do the people agree or disagree with what is happening? Do people give their opinions about what decision should be made?

3. Compare your city-state's government with the Representative Democracy of the United States of America.

5. Quiz:

Quiz: Greek Government

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QUEST ONE: The Geography of Greece

9/8/2016

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Essential
Questions:
(you do not have to answer these)

1. How does geography promote or impede the movement of people and cultural diffusion?
2. Why do people live where they live?
3. How do people survive and thrive in an environment?

1. Computer-Side Chat:

Beachwood CSC Questions

Dublin CSC Questions

2. Vocabulary:

â€‹Be able to define (quizstar quiz) and use these terms in your answers and blog post.

Prior to studying or writing down the definitions to the following words click on this link to see what words you already know.

1. Geography
2. Penninsula
3. Dependency
4. City-state
Short youtube explaining this term
5. Nationalism
6. Citizenship
7. Export
8. Colony
Short youtube explaining this term
9. Impede
10. Promote
11. Archipelago
12. Culture
13. Cultural diffusion
Link to quizlet: Quizlet Flashcards

3. Questions:

a. View Edpuzzle called Greece Geography (Geography and Early Greece)
â€‹The Edpuzzle score will be taken for a grade   Explain three ways the geography impacted Greece.

b. Describe the geography of the Greek Peninsula
-Use GoogleMaps, look up some maps of the Greek Peninsula, or click on this link for a short reading.
-Ohio 3d map
-Greece 3d map

c. Describe the geography of your city-state (Athens or Sparta). How will it impede or promote trade, travel, or culture? Give examples.

d. Create a chart explaining how the following geographic features effected Greek City-states:
Mediterranean Sea
Living on a Peninsula
Harbors
   Rugged, jagged mountains
Limited plains/flat land

e. Read the document below and describe how geography affects both city-state.
*Maybe make a chart or compare and contrast web.

Athens Geography

Sparta Geography

f. How do you think geography affected the population of your city-state?
Explain your answer.

g. How easy was it to grow food for your city-state? Explain your answer
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h. Why did so many Greece city-states colonize other areas of the world? What did they get from them? What did Greece give them? Explain your answer.

i. Does your city-state's geography make it more or less open to attack from other city-states and civilizations? Explain your answer (why do you feel this way)

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS: Opened the day before the quiz

4. Blog:

1. Remember to use the vocabulary words in your blog post.

2. Describe how you got to your city-state. Remember you are writing in First-Person, so your story must be written in your words and about you. This is historical fiction, so you must blend the facts you learn with the story of your traveling back in time to ancient Sparta or Athens.

3. Describe the geography that you see around you after landing in your chosen city-state (Athens or Sparta). How do you think that the geography effects the lives of the people there? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the geography?

4. Compare and contrast the geography of your city-state with the geography of modern day Northeast or Central, Ohio. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your modern day city's geography to your life and the success of your city?

Blog Rubric and Quest One template. Google Doc: File, Make copy. Click here

5. Quiz:

Quiz: The Geography of Greece

What was needed to establish these over seas Settlements? What word would we call these places? What would they get from each of these settlements?

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Ancient Greek WebQuest

10/10/2012

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QUEST ONE: Geography

QUEST TWO: Government

QUEST THREE: Enduring Impacts

It's an average Thursday. You get to school in the morning and go to your locker as usual. But something just doesn't feel right...When you open your locker you see a bright white flash of light and then everything goes dark! When you regain your senses you are lying on the side of a hill. You sit up and hold your hurting head. Your eyes slowly focus on a city in the near distance. It doesn’t look familiar, it seems to shine in the sun. The air is warm and smells of salt water. You have been transported back to ancient Greece. Before you, is the city-state of Athens or Sparta. Your clothes have been replaced with a toga and as you make your way through town, people greet you as if you are suppose to be there. In the pocket of your toga you find a piece of clay with strange markings on it. After asking around (you magically speak and understand Greek) you find a scribe. The scribe takes the clay tablet from you and tells you what it says.
"In order to return to your time, you must learn the geography, government and enduring impacts of Greece. Once you gain this knowledge, there are 3 questions you must answer at the Temple of Delphi. If you answer correctly, the Gods will return you to your time. If you fail, you will remain forever in ancient Greece."

Watch this intro video to start your quest

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TASK THREE: Enduring Impacts of Ancient Greece

10/9/2012

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Essential Questions: (You do not have to answer these)

1. How did Greece have an enduring impact on later civilizations?
2. What is the legacy of Greek Democracy?
3. How is Western Civilization built on the model of the ancient Greeks?

1. Computer Side Chat:

Beachwood CSC Questions

Dublin CSC Questions

2. Vocabulary:
â€‹-Take a pretest first: What is your score?

1. Enduring
2. Impact
3. Legacy
4. Polytheism
5. Astrolabe
6. Pulley block
7. Wood screw
8. Casting
9. Western Civilization

3. Questions:

This storyboard should help! View it before you start.

a.  What is an "enduring impact"? Why is it important to understand the enduring impacts of ancient civilizations? Find one quote that helps to explain this idea of enduring impacts.

b. Name one enduring impact of ancient Greek architecture AND tell me why it is an enduring impact. In other words, how do we see this enduring impact in the modern world (provide an image to help show this)? You should identify and explain these ideas:
Columns
Pediment
Porch

c. Name one enduring impact of ancient Greek art AND tell me why it is an    enduring impact (provide an image to help show this).
See this link, or this one
You should address these ideas:
Sculpture
Mosaic
Theater Learn more about Greek Theater: Click here for 4 min video

d.   Name one Greek invention that has left an enduring impact on the world AND tell me why it is an enduring impact (provide an image to help show this).
See these links: Top 10 list,   top 10 List , in this list not all are Greek--READ
You must identify and explain the following:
Pulley Block
Casting
Astrolabe

e. Find and explain at least one enduring impact from each of the following ancient Greeks: Student Created Thinglink.
A. Homer
B. Pythagoras
C. Euclid
D. Socrates
E. Aristotle
F. Herodotus
G. Archimedes (wood screw)

f. Like all societies, Greece held religious beliefs about the world. Spend some time exploring ancient Greek religion. Explain the ideas in their religion and pick one G-d to discuss as an example.

g. Go to this list of words that are from Greece. Look over the list and pick out five words you hear used in society today. What does this tell use about the Greek Language?

h. View this Edpuzzle to help you answer the question above. How did Alexander the Great help the Ancient Greeks have an enduring impact on the rest of the world? OR How did Alexander the Great help spread Greek culture?

i. Write a short summary of how Greece impacts our life today?

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS scroll down to listen to the answer key

4. Blog:

As you wander around your city-state, you are amazed by the huge buildings, beautiful statues, amazing inventions and the people.

Take your answer from # 9 above ( Write a short summary of how Greece impacts our life today?) and paste it into your blog. Then complete the following.
â€‹
Your job it to create one Voki. It should contain the following information: SEE THIS TUTORIAL BELOW
    *You must complete your Voki in one session, unless you create an account!

A. Your first name and the school you attend
B. Define the term: enduring impact in your own words.
C. Explain 3 way Greece had an enduring impact of Western Civilization.
D. Screen Shot your published Voki and put in your blog, then make it a link to the live Voki online.

Then find three or more pictures from the modern world (make a free collage of your images). Make them into a thinglink and embed them in your blog post. YOU may use ONE sculpture of a famous Greek person.

Each thinglink must have:
A. Named with (BMS or DMS) in the title.
B. One Icon: Photo credits (if you took the photo, please just first name. If from web provide a link)
C. At least three details about how Greeks influence can be seen in each image.

Tutorial: How to make a Voki

How to make your thinglink

Collage for Thinklink