Bartering

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.
Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between economic and social history.

Computing

Select and use a variety of software.
Use technology responsibly.

English

Participate in role play.
Use spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas.

Lesson Planning

Use role play to try bartering; list the types of goods that could be bartered; play and evaluate a simulation game about Indus Valley traders.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that historians and archaeologists can make educated guesses about the uses of buildings and to find out more about traders in the Indus valley civilisation.
To use a simulation program to learn about Indus Valley traders.
To use role play to try bartering and take the role of an Indus valley trader in a simulation program.

Children will:

Use role play to try bartering.
List the types of goods that could be bartered.
Play and evaluate a simulation game about Indus Valley traders.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Sufficient PCs/laptops for chn to work in pairs

Weblinks

BBC Indus traders game from bbc.co.uk