Lesson Four – Hieroglyphics
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and illustrate how the Ancient Egyptians communicated some of their ideas and stories about their civilization by writing in hieroglyphics.
The class can research and record the meanings of some of the pictures that were used for a range of different hieroglyphics displayed inside tombs and on historical artefacts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and illustrate how the Ancient Egyptians communicated some of their ideas and stories about their civilization by writing in hieroglyphics
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest the meaning of symbols used on historical artefacts, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to create an example Ancient Egyptian artefact showing some hieroglyphics and a worksheet to identify and record the meaning of a range of different Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and illustrate how the Ancient Egyptians communicated by writing in hieroglyphics.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate the growth and development of the Ancient Egyptian civilization by exploring and recording information about historical artefacts using primary and secondary sources. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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