Board game

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Indus Valley Everyday Life

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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.
Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.

Design and Technology

Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
Select from and use a wider range of materials.
Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.

English

Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, using other similar writing as models for their own.
Select appropriate vocabulary and grammar.
Use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader.

Lesson Planning

Investigate the board games that have been discovered in Indus Valley excavations; make up a game based on the board and pieces found.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that the Indus Valley people played board games, but that historians do not know how the games were played.
To create a board game based on the Indus Valley artefacts.
To write rules for the board game.

Children will:

Describe the board games that have been discovered in Indus Valley excavations.
Understand that no-one knows how the games were played.
Make up a game based on the board and pieces found.
Write clear rules for playing the game.

Planning

Provided Resources

The Indus Valley board game

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Modern chess set
Card for playing boards
Rulers and pencils
Air-dried clay or Plasticine
Clay tools if available
Examples of board game rules (optional)

Weblinks

A child-friendly explanation of the game of Chess from activityvillage.co.uk