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Leisure time

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

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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 & social history.

English

  • Use similar writing as a model for their own.
  • Note and develop initial ideas.
  • Use organisational and presentational devices to structure text and guide the reader.

Lesson Planning

Compare Ancient Egyptian leisure activities with modern ones; play an Ancient Egyptian board game; create your own version of an Ancient Egyptian board game.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To explain what the Ancient Egyptians did in their leisure time and compare the activities of Ancient Egyptians with those of today.
  • To write the rules for playing an Ancient Egyptian game, using the features of instructions.

Children will:

  • Explain what Ancient Egyptians did in their leisure time.
  • Compare Ancient Egyptian activities with modern ones.
  • Play an Ancient Egyptian board game.
  • Create their own version of an Ancient Egyptian board game.

Provided Resources

  • Images of daily life
  • Board games
  • Instructions for Ancient Egyptian game
  • Spiral template for Mehet Board
  • Senet board

You Will Need

  • Card
  • Rulers
  • Quick drying clay or Plasticine
  • Felt tips
  • Dice

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