Lesson Five – Egyptian Tile
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to produce a clay tile using shapes and impressions to reflect and illustrate a range of Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions.
The class select and use shapes and patterns to create a clay tile on a specific theme about the Ancient Egyptian civilization such as their gods and goddesses.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to produce a clay tile using shapes and impressions to reflect and illustrate a range of Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes, colours and patterns to represent Ancient Egypt beliefs in gods and goddesses and a shared reading text to produce a clay tile to reflect and illustrate a range of Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to produce a clay tile to reflect and illustrate a range of Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to design and produce tiles that can represent Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions by adding shapes, patterns and attachments to clay models. 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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