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Division and conflict

Topics Year 4/5

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Objectives

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of world history, establishing clear narratives within and across periods studied.
  • Address and devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
  • Select and organise relevant historical information.
  • Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

Lesson Planning

Find out about the difficult time following the death of Muhammad (pbuh).

Teaching Outcomes:

  • Find out about the difficult time following the death of Muhammad (pbuh).

Children will:

  • Research, then create and illustrate a storyboard depicting key events following the death of Muhammad (pbuh).

Provided Resources

  • Storyboarding the events that followed the death of Muhammad (pbuh) in CE 632, (to be used for Easy/Medium/Hard activities (consider enlarging to A3 if appropriate)

You Will Need

Book (suggestion only)

  • The Role of Religion in the Early Islamic World (Jim Whiting)

Weblinks

As always we recommend that you watch links in advance of the lesson. This is especially important as this session addresses potentially contentious issues.

The origins of the split in Islam -YouTube clip
A summary of how Islam split from bbc.co.uk
Pobble An on-line writing website which showcases over 100,000 pieces of writing, including examples based on Hamilton plans, where you could upload examples of your children’s writing.

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