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Early burials

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Pharaohs and Pyramids

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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.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connection between cultural, religious and social history, and between short- and long-timescales.
  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, similarity, difference and significance.

Art

  • Improve their mastery of art and design techniques including sculpture and painting with a range of materials.
  • Find out about great architects in history.

Lesson Planning

Describe early burials in Ancient Egypt. Explain why mummification was developed to preserve bodies for the afterlife; describe the mummification process; make a model of a mummy; understand the importance of The Book of the Dead.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • Recognise that the Ancient Egyptians buried their dead to enable them to reach the afterlife.
  • Understand that the burial method changed over centuries.
  • Understand the mummification process.
  • Carry out mummification process online.
  • Make a model mummy.

Children will:

  • Describe early burials in Ancient Egypt.
  • Explain why mummification developed to preserve bodies for the afterlife.
  • Describe the mummification process.
  • Make a model of a mummy.
  • Understand the importance of The Book of the Dead.

Provided Resources

  • Burial in sand
  • Mastaba images
  • Canopic jars
  • Mummy making!
  • Book of the Dead
  • Make your own Mummy
  • Mummy images
  • Shabtis images

You Will Need

  • Access to internet
  • Modelling clay or Plasticine
  • Plaster of Paris or Modroc
  • Aprons

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