This Year 7 History lesson introduces students to Socrates as a foundational figure in Greek philosophy and intellectual inquiry. The resource helps students examine how Socrates challenged Athenian thinking through questioning, public discussion, and the pursuit of moral understanding. Students analyse his role as a teacher, critic of political decisions, and influential figure whose ideas shaped later philosophical traditions.

The lesson follows a clear case study structure: who he was, what he did, what evidence survives, and why he matters historically. Students explore Socrates’ method of questioning, his relationships with key Athenians, and the surviving accounts written by his students. A range of student activities support source analysis, discussion and debate, creative and divergent thinking, structured writing, and short consolidation checks. The transferable skill is evaluating ideas, arguments, and evidence to understand how societies debate moral and civic questions.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).