UKS2
Topic: Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians
Block F: Daily Life
Understand important aspects of the daily life of the Ancient Egyptians; including jobs, food, and games. Create
your own Ancient Egyptian board game.
Block F: Ancient Egyptians
Daily life [8 sessions]
Main outcome: History
Other outcomes: D&T, English, Maths and Art.
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Session 1: History and Art
Homes
Draw and paint, or model,
an Ancient Egyptian house
and garden.
Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the
nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European
societies.
Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different
contexts, understanding the connections between cultural, religious and social
history.
Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as
peasantry.
Understand the methods of historical enquiry.
Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting,
and sculpture.
Use a range of equipment to perform practical tasks.
Use a range of materials.
Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
Prepare and cook a variety of dishes.
Understand where Ancient Egyptian food came from.
Generate their ideas using annotated sketches and pattern pieces.
Use a range of tools to perform practical tasks.
Select appropriate vocabulary.
Use further presentational devices to structure text.
Use similar writing as a model for their own.
Note and develop initial ideas.
Use organisational and presentational devices to structure text and guide the
reader.
Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Children will
 Describe a typical Ancient Egyptian house of both rich and poor families.
 Describe a typical Ancient Egyptian garden (both for homes & temples).
 Draw and paint, or model, an Ancient Egyptian house and garden.
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UKS2
Topic: Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians
Block F: Daily Life
Session 2: History and D&T
A day in the life of women
Learn about a day in the life
of an Ancient Egyptian
woman; identify a range of
everyday objects found in
Ancient Egyptian homes and
understand how the Ancient
Egyptians would have
worked out the passage of
time.
Children will
 Describe a day in the life of an Ancient Egyptian woman.
 Identify a range of everyday objects found in Ancient Egyptian homes.
 Understand how a water clock works.
 Make a simple water clock.
Session 3: History and D&T
Food
Discover the diet of Ancient
Egyptians; understand that
bread was the staple diet
for all Ancient Egyptians
(both rich and poor);
prepare some Ancient
Egyptian food for a feast;
taste a range of Ancient
Egyptian foods.
Session 4: History, Art and
English
Men’s jobs
Research some of the jobs
done by Ancient Egyptian
men; analyse paintings
showing craftsmen at work;
show awareness of the
social hierarchy in Ancient
Egyptian life; make a pot
based on Ancient Egyptian
designs.
Session 5: History and D&T
Clothing
Research the clothes and
footwear worn by Ancient
Egyptians; create some
Ancient Egyptian clothes for
dolls.
Children will
 Describe the diet of Ancient Egyptians.
 Understand that bread was the staple diet for all Ancient Egyptians (both rich and
poor).
 Prepare some Ancient Egyptian food for a feast.
 Taste a range of Ancient Egyptian foods.
Children will
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List some of the jobs done by Ancient Egyptian men.
 Analyse paintings showing craftsmen at work.
 Show awareness of the social hierarchy in Ancient Egyptian life.
 Make a pot based on Ancient Egyptian designs.
Children will
 Describe the clothes worn by Ancient Egyptians.
 Describe the footwear of Ancient Egyptians.
 Create some Ancient Egyptian clothes for dolls.
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have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best of Hamilton
Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and conditions on the Hamilton
Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links,
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UKS2
Topic: Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians
Session 6: History and Art
Jewellery, hair and makeup
Describe the jewellery and
makeup that the Ancient
Egyptians wore; create
Ancient Egyptian jewellery
for themselves and their
fashion dolls.
Session 7: History and
Maths
The three Rs
Discover that only some
boys and no girls went to
school in Ancient Egypt;
describe how papyrus was
made; work out some
calculations using Ancient
Egyptian numbers.
Session 8: History and
English
Leisure time
Compare Ancient Egyptian
leisure activities with
modern ones; play an
Ancient Egyptian board
game; create your own
version of an Ancient
Egyptian board game.
Block F: Daily Life
Children will
 Explain that both men and women in Ancient Egypt wore jewellery, makeup and
wigs.
 Describe the jewellery and makeup that the Ancient Egyptians wore.
 Identify chn in Ancient Egyptian art by their side locks of youth.
 Create Ancient Egyptian jewellery for themselves and their fashion dolls.
Children will
 Explain that only some boys and no girls went to school in Ancient Egypt.
 Describe how papyrus was made.
 Work out some calculations using Ancient Egyptian numbers.
Children will
 Explain what Ancient Egyptians did in their leisure time.
 Compare Ancient Egyptian activities with modern ones.
 Play an Ancient Egyptian board game.
 Create their own version of an Ancient Egyptian board game.
Resources
Session 1
Provided: Images of homes, gardens and decorative details.
You will need: See inside Ancient Egypt by Rob Lloyd Jones & David Hancock, Usborne, ISBN:
9780746084120; Sketching pencils; Drawing paper; Paints; Brushes, including fine ones; Quick-drying
modelling clay.
Session 2
Provided: Images of women at work; Water clock images; Sundial images.
You will need: Access to internet; Large yoghurt pots; Newspaper; Diluted PVA glue (to make papier
mâché); Paints; Brushes; Rulers; Waterproof marker pens; Embroidery needle; Water; Stopwatches;
Bowls to catch water.
Session 3
Provided: Food production images; Food images; List of common foods.
You will need: Fruit; Bread; Recipes; Ingredients for chosen recipes; Cooking equipment; Kitchen; Extra
adults.
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Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links,
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UKS2
Topic: Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians
Block F: Daily Life
Session 4
Provided: The Social Pyramid image; Images of men at work; Ancient Egyptian pot images; How to
make an Ancient Egyptian pot instructions.
You will need: Quick drying clay OR Clay plus potter’s wheel if available; Paints & brushes; Aprons.
Session 5
Provided: Flax images; Weaving images; Sandal images.
You will need: Barbie & Ken or similar fashion dolls; Newspaper or similar for pattern pieces; Linen (or
cotton) plain white/cream cloth; Thread & needles; Scissors; Raffia or similar/brown felt (leather) for
sandals.
Session 6
Provided: Jewellery images; Makeup images; How to make an Ancient Egyptian Bead Necklace; How to
make an Egyptian Headdress; How to make a gold pendant; How to make an Egyptian Collar.
You will need: Thin card &/or felt (40cm x 40cm); Shiny paper; Black paper; Thick card; Black wool;
Drawing compasses & pencils; Scissors; Needles; Beads; Seeds; Buttons; Sequins; Pasta; Quick drying
clay, (clay tools – optional); Paints & brushes; Ribbon or cord, thin wire or nylon fishing line; String; PVA
glue, (stapler – optional).
Session 7
Provided: Papyrus images; How Papyrus was made; Ancient Egyptian numbers; Ancient Egyptian
arithmetic.
You will need: White paper cut into strips, about 1.5cm wide; Diluted PVA glue; Kitchen towels to use
as blotting paper.
Session 8
Provided: Images of daily life; Board games; Instructions for Ancient Egyptian game; Spiral template for
Mehet Board; Senet board.
You will need: Card; Rulers; Pencils; Quick drying clay or Plasticine; Felt tips, paints or crayons; Dice.
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have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best of Hamilton
Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and conditions on the Hamilton
Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links,
changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to verify any of the Links which you wish you use.
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