Worshipping the gods

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

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Objectives

History

Children should undertake a 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

Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.

Lesson Planning

Devise questions about worship and research them. Discover the idea of making sacrifices to gods.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about how the Shang people worshipped gods.
To make vessels to hold offerings to the gods.

Children will:

Devise research questions.
Address research questions.
Make a functional vessel.

Planning

Provided Resources

Information about how Shang people worshipped
Some examples of ritual vessels from the Shang Dynasty
Two ways to make a vessel

You Will Need

Modelling dough
Card and paper

Weblinks

About the Shang religion from ancientchina.co.uk
Information on the Shang Dynasty from ushistory.org
Shang and later religion from historyforkids.org
Shang religion, technology and military from boundless.com