Snapshot

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

Objectives

History

  • Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘civilisation’.
  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.

Geography

  • Locate the world’s countries, using maps and focussing on their environmental regions and key physical characteristics.
  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features.
  • Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.

Lesson Planning

Explain where Ancient Egypt was located and label a map; describe Ancient Egypt as being part of the Fertile Crescent (Cradle of Civilisation); describe the terrain and climate of Egypt.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To appreciate where the Ancient Egyptian located and how it was composed civilisation was.
  • Label a map of Ancient Egypt and its surroundings.
  • Locate the Fertile Crescent and identify the countries in that area today.
  • Describe the physical and human geography of Ancient Egypt.

Children will:

  • Explain where Ancient Egypt was located.
  • Label a map of Ancient Egypt and its surroundings.
  • Describe Ancient Egypt as being part of the Fertile Crescent (Cradle of Civilisation).
  • Describe what society was like at the start of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • Describe the terrain and climate of Egypt.

You Will Need

  • Access to internet
  • Globe
  • World map