The everyday life of the athletes of the ancient Olympic Games Summary of the educational scenario We know a lot about the Ancient Olympics, but how much do we know about the everyday life of athletes? What was their diet, what was their preparation, what were their habits? Students search the archeological site of Olympia for answers. Teacher will present digital and electronic material related to the Olympic Games. It will encourage students to catch information about the daily lives of athletes in A. Greece. He will then encourage them to seek information at the Museum of the Olympic Games in A. Olympia, to discuss with experts and to refer to the literature. In the end they will have to write their own history from the everyday life of the athletes of the ancient Olympic Games.
Keywords Ancient Olympic Games, athletes’ every day, athlete preparation, habits
Pre-existing knowledge History of the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Greek history. Students should be aware of basic elements of the history of the ancient Olympic Games, have been informed about the events, about the sanctuary of ancient Olympia along with the facilities that hosted the athletes and the stadium. It is also good to know the importance of the site of Ancient Olympia for the modern Olympic Games.
Required Material Infrastructure Computer lab, internet connection, historical maps.
Teaching Objectives ➢ To introduce students to a different aspect of the Olympic Games. ➢ To seek information about the daily routine of athletes, their diet, their habits, their preparation, their clothing preferences, and banquets after the games. ➢ Visit an archaeological site and the corresponding museums and collect data and data from field research. ➢ Act as young researchers.
Provoke Curiosity
Teacher asks students to browse the website:
http://digitalschool.minedu.gov.gr/modules/document/file.php/DSGYM-B120/HTML/g02web/htms/sportsMM.htm He asks them to locate the early sports centers in the wider Mediterranean region. He encourages students to identify the relationship of sport with military preparation, political education, and the general education of young people in ancient Greece. He raises questions about the nutrition of athletes and the relationship between women and sport in A. Greece.
Identify questions based on existing knowledge.
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What do you know about everyday life in A. Greece?
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What were the stages of a man's life and what were the stages of a woman's life in Ancient Sparta?
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What do you know about education in A. Greece, about worship events, about burial customs, about the cultivation of land, about textiles and the institution of slavery? ➢ How was a house arranged in A. Greece? During a symposium, where were the family members?
Students search for information on the website: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/story/sto_set.html
Propose preliminary explanations or case
Teacher asks students how sport was related to military preparation.
➢ Were sports related to Democracy? ➢ Did they use orators in gyms?
Look for information about athletes' nutrition.
Design and implementation of a simple investigation
We give students photos of details of exhibits of the Olympic Games Museum in A. Olympia. We are asking them to locate the exhibits.
Collection of evidence by observation
Students collect information from the exhibits. There is a guided tour and presentation of the Museum's exhibits and information about the daily life of athletes is sought. Separated groups collect on-site information on the issues raised to them. They are monitoring the audiovisual material provided.
Discussion – Evidence-based explanation
➢ Teacher asks the students to describe a day of everyday life of ancient Greek athletes. ➢ Students associate sport events with military preparations and religious ceremonies. ➢ They define the relationship between sport and democracy. ➢ What is the relationship between sport and philosophy? What is the difference between "good"» and "charismatic”?
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In Athens there were three large Gymnasiums: The Academy, lyceum and Kynosarge. What was their evolution?
Review - Expression of explanations
Teacher and students are guided to the archaeological site of A. Olympia. Each monument is analyzed and approached from a variety of perspectives (sports, religious, social, cultural, etc.) It presents the inextricable relationship between the ancient Olympic Games and the everyday life of the ancient Greeks.
Review - Follow-up activities and materials
➢ Students create a story based on the everyday life of athletes. ➢ They are preparing a Power Point presentation about everyday life of ancient athletes, their gathering places, their habits, and their human moments. ➢ They simulate one day as ancient athletes and at the end of the day they run the stadium of A. Olympia. ➢ They create a blog with information about the daily habits of the ancient Greeks from visits they will accomplish to Museums.
Review - Follow-up activities and materials
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Students create a story based on the history of the Olympic Games: In the form of a comicbook ( http://www.toondoo.com/ ) they story a fact of the truce, the abstinence from the war. Vertebrae start from ancient Ilida and towards ancient Olympia spread the beginning of the Olympic Games. Students consult the Google Earth application to route the peace ambassadors' march and with the help of the internet retrieve information about the areas, the time of the truce and the religious-political context.
Review - Follow-up activities and materials ➢ They then transfer the above story to the present, making the necessary modifications to make it plausible. ➢ Students, participating in an educational program on the Olympic truce (https://www.olympictruce.org/index.php?lang=el ) design their own Olympic flag in groups, present it with the necessary clarifications in plenary. ➢ They manufacture, within the framework of the above action, posters on equal opportunities, peace, respect for diversity or whatever they choose (https://www.olympictruce.org/images/Respect%20Diversity_GR%20internet.pdf). ➢ Events of the ancient Olympic Games: the Olympic Games of Antiquity included a significant number of competitions; many of them are ancestors of modern Olympic sports and had conditions and rules not unknown to modern athletes; the ancient Olympic games were as follows: 1. Preachers and trumpeters' races 2. Javelin 3. Jump 4. Disk 5. Road 6. Equestrian races 7. Pankration 8. Fight 9. Pentathlon 10. Boxing (recovered from http://www.fhw.gr/olympics/ancient/gr/205.html, 27/08/2017) Students are invited to present sports with electronic slides in groups.