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Trading

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Indus Valley Craftspeople and Trade

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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 knowledge into different contexts, understanding connections between economic and social history.

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through discussion and annotated sketches.
  • Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
  • Select from and use a wider range of materials and components.

Geography

  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features.

Lesson Planning

Discover the trade routes and modes of transport used by traders of the Indus Valley civilisation; learn some of the goods which were traded; make a set of balance scales in the style of those used by the Indus Valley traders.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand how important trading was in the Indus Valley and how it may have taken place.
  • To make balance scales in the style of those used by the Indus Valley traders.
  • To mark Indus Valley trade routes on a map of the region.

Children will:

  • Describe the trade routes and modes of transport used by traders of the Indus Valley civilisation.
  • List some of the goods which were traded.
  • Make a set of balance scales in the style of those used by the Indus Valley traders.

You Will Need

  • Wood
  • Card
  • Thick thread/thin string
  • Margarine tubs/yoghurt pots
  • Scissors
  • Hacksaws
  • Plasticine
  • World map

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