Gods and goddesses

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Ancient Sumerian Religion

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Objectives

History

To know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies.
To understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
To gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between religious and social history.

English

To note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
To use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text.

Lesson Planning

Learn about some of the main Ancient Sumerian gods and goddesses. Create a fact file about one god or goddess.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about the major gods and goddesses in which the Ancient Sumerians believed.
To understand that each city-state was associated with one particular god or goddess.
To research and write a fact file about a god or goddess.

Children will:

Know about some Ancient Sumerian gods and goddesses.
Understand that each city-state in Ancient Sumer was associated with one particular god or goddess.
Create a fact file about one particular god or goddess.

Planning

Provided Resources

The Sumerian creation story
Sumerian Gods and Goddesses
Divine family tree
Gods and Goddesses research links

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Laptops, tablets or computers

Weblinks

The Sumerian creation story from mesopotamia.co.uk