Temples and priests

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.
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 cultural, religious and social history.

Design and Technology

Generate and develop their ideas through talking and drawing.
Select from and use a range of materials.

Lesson Planning

Investigate the main sections of a typical Ancient Egyptian temple; learn some of the duties carried out by priests and priestesses and make a model temple.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the purpose of Ancient Egyptian temples and describe the basic functions of priests.
To plan and make an Ancient Egyptian Temple with a removable roof.

Children will:

Describe the main sections of a typical Ancient Egyptian temple.
List some of the duties carried out by priests and priestesses.
Make a model temple.

Planning

Provided Resources

Mummified animals
Mourner images
Temple Images

Unit Resources

You Will Need

See inside Ancient Egypt by Rob Lloyd Jones and David Hancock
Shoeboxes or similar
Kitchen towel card middles or similar
Masking tape

Weblinks

British Museum description of Ancient Egyptian temples from ancientegypt.co.uk
Descriptions of temples and temple life from odysseyadventures.ca
Animation to show how Karnak Temple was developed by successive Pharaohs from dlib.etc.ucla.edu
Pictures of Karnak as it was from discoveringegypt.com
Tally the offerings and pay the priests from ancientegypt.co.uk