Lesson Planning

Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates. Learn to use a sketchbook.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To explore the uses of bronze vessels.
• To improvise a Shang ceremony using bronze vessels.
• To create imaginative sketches of people using bronze vessels in the Shang Dynasty.

Children will:

• Explore what we know from different types of evidence.
• Act out how a Shang Dynasty ceremony might have happened.
• Do an imaginative sketch of a Shang Dynasty ceremony.