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Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Ancient Sumerian 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.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between economic and social history.

Geography

  • Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including types of settlement and land use.

Lesson Planning

Learn why Ancient Sumerians began to live in cities rather than small rural villages. Learn how plans of houses and maps of cities were drawn on clay tablets. Create clay-tablet maps ofown neighbourhoods.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand why Ancient Sumerians began to live in cities.
  • To appreciate that architects drew house plans and that maps were drawn of the cities.

Children will:

  • Explain why Ancient Sumerians began to live in cities rather than small rural villages.
  • Describe a typical Ancient Sumerian house.
  • Appreciate that plans and maps were drawn on clay tablets.
  • Create a clay tablet map of their own neighbourhood in a similar style to that of the Ancient Sumerians.

Provided Resources

  • Reed houses
  • Terracotta model houses
  • Architects’ plans
  • Sumerian house ruins
  • Maps of Nippur city-state

You Will Need

  • Air-drying clay
  • Clay tools
  • Local street plans or maps
  • Digital camera

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