Teaching Greek Mythology Through Art — A Differentiated Teaching
Proposal for Third Grade Students

(1st Primary School of Samos, Greece)

Abstract: The present article describes a proposal for the teaching of Greek mythology, which is part of the national curriculum of History in Primary Education in Greece. The teaching intervention occurred during the school year 2020–2021 in a 3rd grade classroom using art and new technologies. Several kinds of art such as paintings, sculptures, ancient pottery paintings, frescos and mosaic were employed in order to initiate a conversation with third grade students about artworks’ mythological theme as well as the revelation of the myth.

Presentation software was also used with the aim of showing these art works in detail and systematic order so as to enable students to make connections amongst them and answer questions which would lead them to discover the myth. All lesson plans of History class during the school year 2020–2021 were designed following the methodology as described below.