Project List

Ancient Greece Project Ideas

Your job is going to be to complete one of these projects over the course of our Ancient Greece unit. All projects will be graded out of 100 points using the Ancient Greece rubric.

1. Design a Greek instrument. Stringed instruments include: Cithara, Phorminx, Lyra, Epigonion, Barbiton, Pandouris. For more information on any of these instruments ask Mr. Duran.
2. Design a diorama of an Ancient Greek building. Buildings could include the Parthenon, any number of Greek temples, or the place where they held the Ancient Olympic games.
3. Make a diorama of a bull-leaping match. Little is known about this famous custom of the Minoans. Use your creativity to complete a model of what you think it might have looked like based off of historical information.
4. Write a myth. Possible subjects for your story are: Why there is rain, rainbows, waves, sunrise, lighting, clouds, phases of the moon, earthquakes, hurricanes, thunder, etc. Why different plants or animals have certain traits, why does man do certain things etc. Also include a visual representation of your myth. A drawing, painting, or computer-based drawing will do.
5. Make an I-Movie. For those of you who have the resources necessary to complete an I-Movie, feel free to use your creativity in making one about Ancient Greece. Check with Mr. Duran on Ideas.
6. Design an Ancient Greece PowerPoint Presentation. If you have PowerPoint at home and wish to create a project using PowerPoint, think of a topic you might want to cover and check with Mr. Duran.
7. Design an Ancient Greek Olympics videogame. Capcom has just come to you and asked if you could design a videogame based on the Ancient Greek Olympics. Research the Ancient Greek Olympics and using historically accurate information, create a videogame that other students might enjoy playing.
8. Research Greek Architecture. There are a number of different ideas to use when it comes to Greek Architecture. For more specific ideas or to share ideas, see Mr. Duran.
9. Design a map of Ancient Greece. Your map must include a compass rose, a legend, a title, the mapmaker’s name (you), a scale, and the date. If you want to create a topographical map of Ancient Greece, that would be acceptable as well.
10. Construct an Ancient Greek weapon. This must be school appropriate! If you cannot decide whether or not your weapon would be school appropriate, consult with Mr. Duran. We brainstormed a list in class and some of the weapons included spears, axes, shield, swords, etc.
11. Make an Ancient Greek newspaper page. This is a great way to express your creativity through a number of different outlets. Your newspaper could include a headline (of a historical event), an entertainment section, want ads, a gossip column, a sports section, a comic strip, an obituary, and/or the weather. Mr. Duran has many more ideas on the Greek newspaper and would be willing to help you get started. Check with him on your headline.
12. Construct a Medusa mask. I am sure that most of you remember Medusa as the beast with a face that could turn you to stone and hair made of snakes. Make a mask of what you think Medusa may have looked like based off of myths.
13. Design a board game based on a myth or a topic of Ancient Greece. You can actually construct a board game that you and your friends can play. Make sure that you have a written set of rules and you supply all of the pieces needed to play the game. A few ideas of topics could include the Odyssey, the labors of Hercules, Jason and the Golden Fleece etc. Check with Mr. Duran for more ideas.
14. Create your own Ancient Greece project. You have just read through a number of ideas. Maybe they gave you ideas of your own. I encourage you to create a project on Ancient Greece. There are many different subjects you can study and many different ways that you can study them.