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Defence of Ancient Egypt

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 the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between economic, military and social history.

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams.
  • 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

Name some Ancient Egyptian pharaohs who led their army into battle successfully; list the weapons used by the Ancient Egyptians; design, build and decorate a model of an Ancient Egyptian chariot.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To discover which Ancient Egyptian pharaohs did well in battle and describe the weapons and style of warfare that the Ancient Egyptians used.
  • To design and make an Ancient Egyptian chariot.

Children will:

  • Name some Ancient Egyptian pharaohs who led their army into battle successfully.
  • List the weapons used by the Ancient Egyptians.
  • Design, build and decorate a model of an Ancient Egyptian chariot.

Provided Resources

  • Egyptian chariots
  • Images of Abu Simbel
  • Temple of Karnak

You Will Need

  • Junk materials
  • Wheels
  • Dowelling
  • 1cm square wood strips
  • Matchsticks
  • Lolly sticks
  • Card
  • Hacksaws
  • Glue gun

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