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Farmers

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

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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 connections between cultural, economic, religious and social history and between short- and long-term timescales.

Science

  • Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity.
  • Recognise that some mechanisms allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Design and Technology

  • Understand and use mechanical systems in their products.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the three seasons in the Ancient Egyptian farming year; understand the importance of the Nile in providing both water and fertile soil for the Ancient Egyptians; construct a working model of a shaduf to add to your Nile map.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that most Ancient Egyptians were farmers and explain the vital importance of the Nile for farmers.
  • To understand how a shaduf mechanism enabled farmers to move larger/heavier quantities of water.
  • To design and make a model shaduf.

Children will:

  • Describe the three seasons in the Ancient Egyptian farming year.
  • Explain the importance of the Nile in providing both water & fertile soil for the Ancient Egyptians.
  • Explain how a shaduf works.
  • Construct a working model of a shaduf.

Provided Resources

  • The farming year
  • Farming scenes
  • The farming year diagram template
  • The farming year diagram
  • Nilometer
  • Shaduf images, old and new

You Will Need

  • Dowelling or twigs
  • Quick drying clay or Plasticine
  • Glue gun
  • Thick card
  • Lego

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