Take one object

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Shang Dynasty Technology

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Objectives

History

Children should undertake an in-depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.
Children should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Art

Use a sketchbook.

Lesson Planning

Address and devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about bronze vessels.
To sketch one or more bronze vessels in their sketchbook.

Children will:

Devise and address research questions.
Explain the range of bronze vessels made in the Shang Dynasty.
Make annotated sketches in their sketchbooks.

Planning

Provided Resources

A Shang bronze vessel
How to use a sketchbook
Bronze vessels in the Shang Dynasty

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco from education.asianart.org
Shang and Zhou bronzes from the Freer Sackler, from asia.si.edu
A bronze zun from the British Museum from teachinghistory100.org
A ding at the British Museum from artsandculture.google.com