Creation story

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Mythology

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

English

Increase their familiarity with a range of books, including myths from other cultures.
Make comparisons across books.

Lesson Planning

Retell the Ancient Egyptian creation story and understand why different versions of the creation story exist.

Teaching Outcomes:

To know the Ancient Egyptian creation story and understand that there are many versions of the story.
To compare different versions of the Ancient Egyptian creation story (myth) and retell the story.

Children will:

Retell the Ancient Egyptian creation story.
Understand why different versions of the creation story exist.
Draw a flow chart/ family tree of the creation story.

Planning

Provided Resources

Ancient Egyptian creation story
Creation story resources

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Stories from Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs retold by Marcia Williams
The Orchard Book of Creation Stories by Margaret Mayo

Weblinks

Short animation of Creation story from ancientegypt.co.uk
Another version of the Creation story from bigmyth.com