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Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Introduction to Ancient Egypt

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between short- and long-term timescales.
  • Understand the abstract term ‘civilisation’.

English

  • Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form.
  • Use further presentational devices to structure text.
  • Draw on reading and research where necessary.

Lesson Planning

Place the Ancient Egyptian civilisation on a world history timeline; describe what society was like in Britain, the terrain and climate of Britain at the start of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To place the Ancient Egyptians on a timeline of other ancient civilisations & British history.
  • To establish what society was like in Britain during the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • To write labels for a world history timeline and write a description of society in Britain in 3000 BCE.

Children will:

  • Place the Ancient Egyptian civilisation on a world history timeline.
  • Describe what society was like in Britain at the start of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • Describe the terrain and climate of Britain at the start of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • Add significant dates & events to a world history timeline.

Provided Resources

  • Earliest civs timeline
  • Ancient Egyptians timeline
  • Timeline cards
  • Blank timeline cards
  • Ancient civilisations maps
  • Picture of Standing Stones of Stenness

You Will Need

  • String and pegs for washing line timeline
  • Laminator
  • Globe
  • World map
  • Information books about the Neolithic era in Britain

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