Other Gods

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

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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 historical perspective by understanding the connections between cultural, religious and social history.

Design and Technology

Design purposeful, appealing products for themselves.
Generate their ideas through talking and drawing.
Select from and use a range of tools & materials.
Evaluate their products.

Lesson Planning

Understand that the Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods & goddesses; plan, make and evaluate an Ancient Egyptian headdress.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that the Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods and goddesses and that the gods and goddesses could be recognised by different symbols.
To plan and make an Ancient Egyptian headdress.

Children will:

Understand that the Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods & goddesses.
Describe the headdresses of a range of gods and goddesses.
Plan and make an Ancient Egyptian headdress.
Evaluate their Ancient Egyptian headdress.

Planning

Provided Resources

The Great Hymn to the Aten
Ankh images

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Thin card
Newspaper and watered down PVA glue for papier-mâché
Powder paints
Watered-down PVA for shiny effect
Materials to stick on, e.g. feather, corrugated card, aluminium foil, fabrics, wools, coloured straws
Masking tape
PVA glue
Aprons

Weblinks

List of important gods & goddesses from ancientegypt.co.uk
List of gods from bbc.co.uk
Headdress descriptions from landofpyramids.org
British Museum activity to return some symbols back to the correct gods from ancientegypt.co.uk