The life of Alexander

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Ancient Greece Empire

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Objectives

History

Ancient Greece – Study Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
Know and understand significant aspects of the expansion and dissolution of empires.
Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’.
Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims.
Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

English

Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion. Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.

Lesson Planning

Research Alexander's life and, work out how we know about him and assess some of the sources about his life.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about Alexander the Great and assess different versions of his story.
To make a rough plan for a performance of Alexander the Great's life.

Children will:

Demonstrate knowledge of the life of Alexander.
Assess the reliability of sources.
Retrieve and present information from non-fiction clearly and accurately.

Planning

Provided Resources

Alexander the Great Bingo
The different versions of the life of Alexander

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

The life of Alexander the Great - YouTube clip
Discussion about the 'good sources' of information about Alexander the Great from livius.org