Homes

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

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

Art

Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Lesson Planning

Draw and paint, or model, an Ancient Egyptian house and garden.

Teaching Outcomes:

To describe the structure and layout of an Ancient Egyptian house and garden.
To understand the significance of water in Ancient Egyptian gardens.
To create a painting of an Ancient Egyptian house and garden, or make a clay model of a house and garden.
To understand the lack of perspective in Ancient Egyptians painted depictions of gardens.

Children will:

Describe a typical Ancient Egyptian house of both rich and poor families.
Describe a typical Ancient Egyptian garden (both for homes & temples).
Draw and paint, or model, an Ancient Egyptian house and garden.

Planning

Provided Resources

Images of homes, gardens and decorative details

Unit Resources

You Will Need

See inside Ancient Egypt by Rob Lloyd Jones and David Hancock
Sketching pencils
Quick-drying modelling clay

Weblinks

Look at the ruins of a typical Ancient Egyptian house from bbc.co.uk