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Bronze

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

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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.
  • Achievements of mankind.
  • Understand historical concepts such as significance.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between national and international history.

Science

  • Y5 Compare materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness and their melting temperature.

Art

  • Record their observations.
  • Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing with pencils.

Lesson Planning

Discover how the Ancient Sumerians learned how to make Copper objects and then progress to making alloys especially Bronze. Learn how the Ancient Sumerians used the ‘last wax process’ to make a variety of Bronze objects.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn about the Ancient Sumerians discovery of bronze.
  • To understand the properties of key materials used in the construction of weapons and tools.
  • To make an observational drawing of an Ancient Sumerian bronze artefact.

Children will:

  • Know that the Ancient Sumerians knew how to make bronze from copper and tin.
  • Understand that the properties of bronze made it very suitable for making tools, weapons and statues.
  • Know that this time period was known as the Bronze Age and that the people living in the UK also experienced the Bronze Age.
  • Make an observational drawing of a bronze artefact.

You Will Need

  • Bronze ornament if available
  • Drawing pencils and paper

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