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Dynasties

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Pharaohs and Pyramids

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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, similarity, difference and significance.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between short- and long-timescales.

Design and Technology

  • Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
  • Select from and use a wider range of materials and components.

Lesson Planning

Explain how the rulers of Ancient Egypt were divided into families or dynasties and know how rich and powerful the pharaohs were. Describe the crowns and symbols of pharaohs; make a double crown (Pschent) of Ancient Egypt.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand who the pharaohs were and place pharaohs and dynasties on timeline.
  • To make a double crown of Egypt.

Children will:

  • Explain how the rulers of Ancient Egypt were divided into families or dynasties.
  • Understand how rich and powerful the pharaohs were.
  • Describe the crowns and symbols of pharaohs.
  • Make a double crown (Pschent) of Ancient Egypt.

Provided Resources

  • Egyptian crowns
  • How to make a crown
  • Cobra images
  • Symbols of Pharaohs
  • The Social Pyramid

You Will Need

  • Red, white & yellow card
  • White A3 paper
  • Double-sided tape
  • Glue
  • Rulers

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