VCE Education Experiences

Students play ancient Greek, Egyptian and Chinese board games to discover what they reveal about ancient societies’ values, rituals and practices.

From sarcophagi to pottery, students engage with museum artefacts to explore ancient Egypt’s military, bureaucratic and cultural power and its influence on ancient Greece.

Students explore the origins, development and fall of civilisations, and how civilisation has been conceptualised by different historical perspectives.

Students handle vases to discover what ceramics reveal about ancient Greek life, explore pottery styles and decode vase paintings.

Students engage with artefacts to explore the status, role, and experiences of women in ancient Greece and their representation in art, literature and history.

Students explore key features of life in ancient Greece such as mythology, the poleis, governance, civics, warfare, intercultural connections, trade, sickness and death.

Students investigate the origin of history as a field, how historical thinking has developed over time, and interrogate the historical and archaeological record.

Students explore the cultural, political and economic intersection between Greece and Rome. Engaging with artefacts, students investigate the inheritance, power and limitations of the Western world.

Discover how rich and alive the Latin language truly is, with a flexible and engaging workshop spanning spoken language, palaeography and music.

This workshop contextualises the Peloponnesian War. In Part 1 students interpret ancient artefacts and texts to evaluate the causes of the War and key events. In Part 2 students use ancient rhetorical techniques to construct arguments about war policies and decisions made by key figures.