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End of Ancient Egyptian civilisation

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 and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’ and ‘civilisation’.
  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence, and use them to make connections, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts.

Geography

  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries.

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

Describe the end of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation; mark on a map of the region where the various invaders came from; research facts and write a biography of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra, last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To be able to describe the end of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • To use maps to locate the origin of various peoples who invaded Egypt in the last few hundred years of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • To write a biography of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra, the last Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh.

Children will:

  • Describe the end of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
  • Mark on a map of the region where the various invaders came from.
  • Research facts and write a biography of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra, last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

Provided Resources

  • Maps of Alexander the Great’s empire
  • Map of The Roman empire
  • Blank Mediterranean map

You Will Need

  • Access to internet
  • Information books about Alexander the Great and Cleopatra

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