Buffalo, bullock and oxen carts

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

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Objectives

History

Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations and characteristic features of past non-European societies.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts.

Design and Technology

Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through discussion and annotated sketches.
Select from and use a range of tools and equipment.
Select from and use a range of materials and components.
Apply their knowledge of how to strengthen and reinforce complex structures.

Lesson Planning

Design and make a wooden cart in the Indus Valley civilisation style; make storage pots and animals to complete the cart.

Teaching Outcomes:

To describe the wooden carts used during the Indus Valley civilisation.
To design and make a wooden cart in the Indus valley civilisation style and make storage pots and animals to complete the cart.

Children will:

Describe the carts used by the Indus Valley people.
Make a wooden cart in the Indus Valley style.

Planning

Provided Resources

Images of model carts

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Materials for making wheeled-carts, including wood of various shapes and sizes, e.g. dowelling, square section strips, off-cuts, matchsticks, lolly sticks, card
Glue (and/or glue gun with adult help)
Wheels (wooden preferably, though two card wheels could be glued together with small pieces of wood to hold them apart to create thickness)
Hacksaws
Scissors
Plasticine/air-dried clay to create storage pots for cart and model animals
Steel rulers
Pencils

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.