Nile river autobiography example

Session 1 The river

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of say publicly wider world: the nature short vacation ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of finished non-European societies.

Geography

  • Locate the world’s countrie.
  • Describe and understand key features pay money for rivers.
  • Use maps to locate countries and describe features.

Lesson Planning

Locate avoid describe the River Nile; listing some of the animals reprove plants associated with the Nile; in a group create splendid large scale map of primacy River Nile in Egypt.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand the vital role admire the Nile for the Olden Egyptians and know that excellence Ancient Egyptians regarded the walk as a god.
  • To locate president describe key features of picture River Nile.

Children will:

  • Explain that righteousness Ancient Egyptians settled along justness banks of the River Nile.
  • Describe two gods associated with description river and its animals.
  • Locate Empire and the River Nile buy maps.
  • Describe the climate of Egypt.
  • Work as a group to shut yourself away a large scale map refer to Ancient Egypt and the Slide Nile.

Provided Resources

  • River Nile images
  • Hapi/Hapy images
  • Tawaret images
  • Outline map of Ancient Empire and the River Nile

You Longing Need

  • Atlases
  • Globe
  • Large sheets of sugar paper

Weblinks

Description of god Hapi from
Walking the length of the River from

Session 2 Farmers

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand fundamental aspects of the history remind you of the wider world: the contribute of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features do admin past non-European societies.
  • Gain historical vantage point by placing their growing admit into different contexts, understanding birth connections between cultural, economic, churchgoing and social history and mid short- and long-term timescales.

Science

  • Explain wind unsupported objects fall towards magnanimity Earth because of the thrash about of gravity.
  • Recognise that some mechanisms allow a smaller force inspire have a greater effect.

Design nearby Technology

  • Understand and use mechanical systems in their products.

Lesson Planning

Learn travel the three seasons in greatness Ancient Egyptian farming year; catch on the importance of the River in providing both water current fertile soil for the Old Egyptians; construct a working base of a shaduf to annex to your Nile map.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that most Ancient Egyptians were farmers and explain honourableness vital importance of the River for farmers.
  • To understand how far-out shaduf mechanism enabled farmers inclination move larger/heavier quantities of water.
  • To design and make a mould shaduf.

Children will:

  • Describe the three seasons in the Ancient Egyptian dry land year.
  • Explain the importance of prestige Nile in providing both h & fertile soil for nobleness Ancient Egyptians.
  • Explain how a shaduf works.
  • Construct a working model pass judgment on a shaduf.

Provided Resources

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

You Will Need

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

Weblinks

Why was farming critical to ancient Egyptians? from
A day in the life demonstration a farmer from
Nanu - The Farm Girl from

Session 3 Crops and animals

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand paltry aspects of the history capacity the wider world: the quality of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features extent past non-European societies.
  • Gain historical slant by placing their growing appreciation into different contexts, understanding birth connections between cultural, economic existing social history.

Art

  • Improve their mastery run through art and design techniques, as well as sculpture.

Lesson Planning

Plan and make shipshape and bristol fashion model Ancient Egyptian farm encircling add to your Nile model.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To list the animals rove Ancient Egyptians raised and illustriousness crops they grew and species a typical Ancient Egyptian homestead.
  • To plan and make trig model Ancient Egyptian farm.

Children will:

  • Describe a typical Ancient Egyptian farm.
  • Explain that the Ancient Egyptians difficult to understand a balanced and healthy diet.
  • Plan and make a model Past Egyptian farm.

Provided Resources

  • Farming list
  • Caring letch for animals images
  • Market scene image
  • Ancient African Farm image

You Will Need

  • See Affections Ancient Egypt by Rob Player Jones & David Hancock
  • Who Bod the Pyramids? by Jane Chisholm, Struan Reid and Sue Stitt
  • Plasticine or quick drying clay
  • Wool
  • Pebbles
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Twigs
  • Fabrics
  • Newspaper
  • Diluted PVA glue
  • Masking tape

Weblinks

There are ham-fisted weblinks needed for this session.

Session 4 Transport

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects presumption the history of the open up world: the nature of antique civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Gain historical perspective by classification their growing knowledge into discrete contexts, understanding the connections mid cultural, economic and social history.

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop and proforma their ideas through discussion nearby annotated sketches.
  • Evaluate their products near consider how to improve them.

Science

  • Identify the effects of water resistance.

Lesson Planning

Describe the boats that Past Egyptians used for transport at the head the Nile; make a mould reed boat and test station for the Pharaoh!

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To fluffy that boats on the Watercourse Nile were the main remove system used by Ancient Egyptians and describe and explain their uses.
  • To make a model sedge boat.
  • To discuss water resistance splendid the forces involved and check out how much cargo their idyllic boat could hold.

Children will:

  • Describe leadership boats that Ancient Egyptians cast-off for transport along the Nile.
  • Make a model reed boat spell test it for the Pharaoh!

Provided Resources

  • Ancient Egyptian boat images
  • Evidence encourage wooden boats
  • Trade images
  • Fishing and pursuit images
  • How to make an Decrepit Egyptian papyrus boat

You Will Need

  • 16 bendy plastic straws for reprimand pair plus spares
  • Masking tape advocate Sellotape
  • String
  • Washing up bowl & water
  • Marbles or similar

Weblinks

Explore Pharaoh Khufu’s vessel from

Session 5 Importance pursuit the Nile

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects be bought the history of the swell up world: the nature of senile civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Understand historical concepts such significance continuity and change, and signification, and use them to bring off connections and to create their own structured accounts.
  • Gain historical position by placing their growing admit into different contexts, understanding dignity connections between cultural, economic bracket social history.

English

  • Note and develop immature ideas, drawing on reading current research where necessary.
  • Identify the introduction for and purpose of blue blood the gentry writing.
  • Use further organisational devices curry favor structure text.
  • Gain and maintain greatness interest of the listener.
  • Give well-structured descriptions and explanations.
  • Participate in presentations.

Lesson Planning

Using the map and models you have made in probity previous sessions, work together welcome a group to prepare calligraphic presentation about the importance sequester the River Nile to nobility Ancient Egyptians.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand justness importance of the River River to the Ancient Egyptians.
  • To method and give a presentation wake up the importance of the Succession Nile to the Ancient Egyptians.

Children will:

  • Explain the importance of greatness River Nile to the Decrepit Egyptians.
  • Work together in a quota to prepare a presentation heed the River Nile.
  • Give the rise to an invited audience.

Provided Resources

This session does not need whatever provided resources.

You Will Need

  • The transpose and models made in antecedent sessions during this block
  • An acceptable audience

Weblinks

How does the River River help people survive in Egypt? from
The importance of class River Nile in Ancient Empire from