Recreate Fu Hao's burial

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Shang Dynasty Worship

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Objectives

History

Children should undertake a depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.

Art

Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.

Maths

Pupils should consolidate their understanding of ratio when comparing quantities, sizes and scale drawings by solving a variety of problems.

Lesson Planning

Make replica dings, jade figurines and pots to go into a replica of Fu Hao's grave.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about the burial of Fu Hao.
To recreate Fu Hao's tomb in miniature.
To calculate the measurements needed to create an accurate temple.

Children will:

Choose what materials and methods to use to make replica objects from Fu Hao's tomb.
Create miniature versions of objects.
Arrange their objects in a 'tomb'.
Calculate ratio problems to make scale models.

Planning

Provided Resources

Cards depicting objects from Fu Hao's tomb
How to use the materials to make some of the objects and working at scale

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Large cardboard box with no lid
Pear's soap
Modelling dough with sculpting tools.

Weblinks

An interactive tomb to explore from ancientchina.co.uk
Fu Hao and her tomb from ancient-origins.net
About Fu Hao from washington.edu