Lesson Planning

You will learn that the Ancient Egyptians wrote using different scripts from ours and discover how the Rosetta Stone enabled hieroglyphs to be translated. Discover how an Egyptologist called Champollion was able to break the hieroglyph code and write a biography or fact file about Champollion.

Teaching Outcomes:

• Understand that the Ancient Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs and simplified versions such as demotic & hieratic scripts.
• Appreciate that once hieroglyphs were translated Egyptologists were able to find out a lot more about the Ancient Egyptians.
• Understand that hieroglyphs represent the sounds that make up words.
• Research and make notes on the life of Jean François Champollion.
• Write a biography or fact file about Champollion.

Children will:

• Understand that the Ancient Egyptians wrote using different scripts from ours.
• Explain that the Rosetta Stone enabled hieroglyphs to be translated.
• Describe how Champollion was able to break the hieroglyph code.
• Write a biography or fact file about Champollion.