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Champollion

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Egyptologists

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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.
  • Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
  • Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’ and ‘civilisation’.

English

  • Note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
  • Use further presentational devices to structure text.

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.

You Will Need

  • Access to internet
  • Horribly Famous: Tutankhamun and his Tombful of Treasure by Michael Cox

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