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Shang calendar

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Shang Dynasty Writing and the Shang Calendar

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Objectives

History

  • Children should undertake an in-depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.
  • They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Maths

  • Pupils divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts.
  • Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees.

Lesson Planning

Learn how and why people in the Shang Dynasty made calendars; make your own Shang cyclical calendar.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn how and why people in the Shang Dynasty made calendars.
  • To make a Shang Cyclical Calendar.

Children will:

  • Explain how the Shang calendar worked.
  • Divide a three digit number by a two digit number.
  • Draw angles, measuring them in degrees.

Provided Resources

  • Explanation of the sexagenary cycle and names of the stems and branches
  • How to make a Shang Cyclical Calendar

You Will Need

  • Compasses
  • Protractors
  • Split pins.

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