Laws

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Inventions

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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.
Achievements of mankind.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, similarity, difference and significance.

English

Listen and respond appropriately to their peers.
Articulate and justify opinions.
Give well-structured explanations.
Participate actively in collaborative conversations.
Use spoken language to develop understanding.
Consider and evaluate different viewpoints.

Lesson Planning

Learn about how the Code of Ur-Nammu was developed. Explore how laws are necessary for a community and produce a set of laws that can be used.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the Ancient Sumerian set of laws and appreciate the necessity of laws.
To work in a group to establish a set of ‘laws’ for a new society in Ancient Sumerian times. Discuss their ideas with the rest of the class and draw up an agreed set of ‘laws’.

Children will:

Define a law and understand how important it is for society to have a set of laws that everyone lives by
Describe the Code of Ur-Nammu
Create a class set of ‘laws’ for a new society in Ancient Sumerian times

Planning

Provided Resources

The Ur-Nammu law code

Unit Resources

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

About The Ur-Nammu law code from realhistoryww.com
More about The Ur-Nammu law code from wikipedia.org