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Back in time

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Indus Valley Introduction to the Indus Valley

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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.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between short-term and long-term timescales.
  • Understand the abstract term ‘civilisation’.

English

  • Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form.
  • Use further presentational devices to structure text.
  • Draw on reading and research where necessary.

Lesson Planning

Learn where the Indus Valley civilisation fits on a world history timeline; compare what the terrain, climate and society was like in Britain at the start of the Indus Valley civilisation; add significant dates and events to a world history timeline.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • Place the Indus Valley civilisation on a timeline of other ancient civilisations and British history.
  • Establish what society was like in Britain during the Indus Valley civilisation.
  • Travel ‘back in time’ and describe what can be seen in Britain in 3000 BCE.
  • Write labels for a world history timeline.
  • Write a description of society in Britain in 3000 BCE.

Children will:

  • Place the Indus Valley civilisation on a world history timeline.
  • Describe what society was like in Britain at the start of the Indus Valley civilisation.
  • Describe the terrain and climate of Britain at the start of the Indus Valley civilisation.
  • Add significant dates and events to a world history timeline.

Provided Resources

  • Timeline: Earliest Civilisations
  • Timeline: Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Timeline Cards
  • Indus Valley Civilisation map
  • Ancient Civ map
  • Blank world map
  • Standing Stones of Stenness image

You Will Need

  • String, pegs for washing line timeline
  • Thin card, laminator
  • Globe, world map
  • Information books about the Neolithic era in Britain

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