1. Year 3 Autumn 1 At the Pyramids Curriculum Driver: History
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Year 3 Autumn 1 - At the Pyramids Key Curriculum Driver: History Other Curriculum Areas: Art, Geography Rationale: At the Pyramids will give children an in-depth insight into Ancient Eygpt - an early civilisation and their achievements, including their beliefs, cultures values and how the country is ruled as stated in the National Curriculum. At the Pyramids will also provide many opportunities for engaging links to R.E and Art. By the end of this topic, most children will: Have an excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events, and contexts from this period. • The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas confidently. • The ability to consistently support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using detailed, appropriate and accurate historical evidence derived from a range of sources. • The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past, formulating and refining questions and lines of enquiry.  • A passion for history and an enthusiastic engagement in learning, which develops their sense of curiosity about the past and their understanding of how and why people interpret the past in different ways.  • A respect for historical evidence and the ability to make robust and critical use of it to support their explanations and judgments. • A desire to embrace challenging activities, including opportunities to undertake high-quality research across a history topic. Children’s knowledge will be shown by: Extended Writing: A recount (This could be of the Egyptian creation story, or the Life of Tutankhamun!) A rag to riches tale (Possibly linked to the life of Ay - the mere advisor who became Pharoah of Egypt!) Children will also complete Purposeful Outcome – Added by class teachers after completeing topic web.
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3. Year 3 Autumn 1 - At the Pyramids
Subject
Objective
History
• Use evidence to ask questions and find answers to questions about the past.
• Suggest suitable sources of evidence for historical enquiries.
• Use more than one source of evidence for historical enquiry in order to gain a more accurate understanding of history.
• Describe different accounts of a historical event, explaining some of the reasons why the accounts may differ.
• Suggest causes and consequences of some of the main events and changes in history.
Give a broad overview of life in Britain from ancient until medieval times.
• Compare some of the times studied with those of other areas of interest around the world.
• Describe the social, ethnic, cultural or religious diversity of past society.
• Describe the characteristic features of the past, including ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children.
• Use appropriate historical vocabulary to communicate, including: 
    • dates 
    • time period 
    • change 
   
• Use literacy, numeracy and computing skills to a good standard in order to communicate information about the past.
Geography
Use a range of resources to identify the key physical and human features of a location.
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4. Curriculum Driver: History
Topic Overview
Topic Hook
Who killed Tutankhamun? ancient dig – children to become archaeologists.
At the Pyramids
Curriculum Driver: History
Topic Outcome
Ancient Egypt museum trip.
_____ Coverage (Main Focus)
HOOK. Outside create an ancient dig site. Children to become archaeologists to investigate who killed Tutankhamun. KWL grid – What I know, What I would like to know, What I’ve learnt. Who were the Egyptian? When did they live? What do they eat? Where did they live? Looking at maps.
A day in the life of an Egyptian. The life of Ay – a mere advisor to pharaoh.
Writing your name in hieroglyphics
Comparing our lives to the life of an Egyptian
Making flat bread / investigating poo
Entering a pyramid. What will you find inside? How are mummies preserved? Write a diary entry from inside a pyramid. Act as though you are trapped inside – how would you be feeling?
Investigating the River Nile. Where does it run? Who does it affect? Fact files about the Nile. What do you know about it? What have you learnt? Using laptops to research.
Who killed Tutankhamun? Investigating his life and his mysterious death. Timeline of his life. Creating portraits of Tutankhamun. What was his job? Why is he remembered? Persuasive writing of Tutankhamun’s death.
Purposeful outcome – ancient Egypt museum trip.
Children’s own research
A day in the life of ….
Free Writing Stimulus
Extended Writing Genres and Activities
Who killed Tutankhamun? Persuasive writing
Instructions
Fact files
Diary entry
Trips and Experiences
Ancient Egypt Bagshaw Museum – Birstall
Other subject Coverage
List activities
Linked Texts