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Temples and ziggurats

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Ancient Sumerian Religion

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Objectives

History

  • To know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • To understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
  • To gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural, religious and social history.

Maths

  • To identify 3D shapes from 2D representations.
  • To draw 2D shapes using given dimensions and angles.
  • To recognise, describe and build simple 3D shapes, including making nets.

Lesson Planning

Learn that temples were considered by the Ancient Sumerians to be the homes of gods and goddesses. Discover the structure of a ziggurat and the significance of its shape. Use nets tobuild ziggurats with temples.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To describe the structure of a ziggurat and explain the significance of its shape.
  • To understand that the temples were considered to be the homes of gods and goddesses and were therefore sacred.
  • To draw nets to make model Ancient Sumerian ziggurats with temples.

Children will:

  • Understand that temples were considered by the Ancient Sumerians to be the homes of gods and goddesses.
  • Learn the structure of a ziggurat and the significance of its shape.
  • Use nets to build a ziggurat and temple.

Provided Resources

  • Images of Ziggurats
  • Ziggurat background information
  • Architect’s plan of a temple
  • Reconstruction of a temple at Uqair
  • Example Ziggurat model
  • Net for a Ziggurat platform

You Will Need

  • Card
  • Scissors
  • Rulers
  • Glue and/or sticky tape
  • Paints and brushes

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