Learning Objective

Unit 10: What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?

Software - Websites - Activities

Generic:

Kartouche- Primary Curriculum Egyptians 

Ready resources-History 5 

Find Out and write about Ancient Egyptians

My World Egypt Resources

1: What do we already know about ancient Egypt?

• to locate ancient Egypt in time and place
• that information can be classified in different ways

2: What can we learn about ancient Egypt from one object?

• to observe an object in detail and to make inferences and deductions
• to record information about an object accurately

Find pictures of Egyptian artefacts www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypte.html

Record information about chosen artefact www.teachingideas.co.uk/history/histobjctsws

Word

Word

3: What does the landscape tell us about what life might have been like in ancient Egypt?

• to make deductions about life in the past from pictures of the landscape
• how much of the life of Egypt depended on the Nile

Map, pictures and quiz about the land of Egypt www.snaithprimary.eril.net/eggeo.htm

Information about the Geography of Egypt www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/home.html

Grid to complete about living in Egypt

4: What objects survive from the time of the ancient Egyptians?

• to classify information in various ways
• about the range of objects which have survived from ancient Egypt
• to make inferences from objects about the way of life in ancient Egypt

Find pictures of Egyptian artefacts www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypte.html

Record information about a chosen artefact

Word

5: What do objects that have survived tell us about ancient Egypt?

• about aspects of life in ancient Egypt
• to make inferences and deductions from objects and pictures
• that what we know about the past is dependent on what has survived

Make prediction about the use of artefacts www.snaithprimary.eril.net/obintro.htm

Record information about a chosen topic

Word

6: What did the ancient Egyptians believe about life after death?

• about Egyptian tombs, pyramids and burial sites
• to use sources of information in ways which go beyond simple observation

Build a mummy online-gory but fun www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy

Read and write your name in hieroglyphs www.virtual–egypt.com

www.eyelid.co.uk/e-name.htm

www.snaithprimary.eril.net/hierintr.htm

7. What can we learn about ancient Egypt from what has survived?

• what we can find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived
• to produce a structured account about life in ancient Egypt

Variety of links to websites, useful for research www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/Egyptl www.astonvision.org.uk www.gridclub.com/have_a_go/

Worksheets to download www.primaryresources.co.uk/history/history