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Well-known Pharaohs

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.
  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, similarity, difference and significance.

English

  • Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
  • Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary.
  • Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader.

Lesson Planning

List some well-known pharaohs. Research and record facts about an individual pharaoh to make a fact file.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • Study and compare the lives of some of the well-known pharaohs.
  • Research a well-known pharaoh. Write fact file/biography of a well-known pharaoh.

Children will:

  • List some well-known pharaohs.
  • Research and record facts about an individual pharaoh.
  • Understand that dates and details about many individual pharaohs are approximate.

Provided Resources

  • Plan of Tutankhamun’s tomb
  • Some Great Pharaohs
  • Cities of Ancient Egypt

You Will Need

  • Access to internet
  • Timelines from block A

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