UKS2 Topic: Earliest Civilisations - Ancient Sumer

You can find out about all this and more if you explore Hamilton's rigorously researched and creative upper key stage 2 Ancient Sumer cross-curricular topic.

Learn why Ancient Sumerians began to live in cities rather than small rural villages. Find out about how architects drew plans of houses on clay tablets and that maps of cities were also drawn on clay tablets. Create a clay tablet map of your own neighbourhood in a similar style to that of the Ancient Sumerians.

Role-play an Ancient Sumer school and experience how Sumerians learnt mostly by copying and learning by heart. Explore the clothing and jewellery that Sumerian men & women wore. Make a Sumerian outfit for a fashion doll and a piece of Sumerian jewellery for yourself.

Learn about some leisure activities of the Ancient Sumer people and play the royal game of Ur.

What did the Ancient Sumerians believe? How did they worship? Study Sumer religious ideas and practices and learn that temples were considered to be the homes of gods and goddesses. Discover the structure of a ziggurat and the significance of its shape and use nets to build your own group ziggurat with a temple on top.

The people of Ancient Sumer were amazing inventors. Find out about their greatest achievements including the wheel, writing, maths and astronomy. Make imaginative outcomes such as a planisphere, a cylinder seal of clay and a model of an Ancient Sumerian chariot.

Read parts of Gilgamesh, the oldest recorded story in the world!

This exciting topic covers objectives from the History, English, Geography, Art, DT, Maths and Science curriculum. Explore our Ancient Sumer Topic today!