Aristotle Interactive Biography - Ancient Greek Philosophy and Science - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Aristotle interactive biography turns the birth of systematic science and logic into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Aristotle (384-322 BCE) from a doctor's household in Stagira through twenty years in Plato's Academy, the tutoring of the boy who would conquer Persia, and the founding of his own school in Athens. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the Stagira childhood and the twenty years at Plato's Academy, the wandering years in Asia Minor and the biological fieldwork on Lesbos, the tutoring of the young Alexander at Mieza, the founding of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school, and the impiety charge that drove him into exile - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 37 events setting Aristotle's life beside the rise of Macedon under Philip II, the end of Athenian independence, and the conquests that carried Greek learning east - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Stagira and Atarneus through Plato's Academy in Athens, Assos and Lesbos, the Macedonian court at Pella and the garden at Mieza, to the Lyceum and a final refuge at Chalcis - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his teacher Plato and Plato's own teacher Socrates, his pupil Alexander the Great, Philip II, his successor Theophrastus, his patron Hermias of Atarneus, and the later thinkers who carried him forward including Avicenna, Averroes
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