Why did Ancient Egypt collapse?

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This lesson is titled “Why did Ancient Egypt collapse?”

The lesson begins with a Starter Activity in which students look at an AI generated prompt image, in order to infer some key causes (a broken crown represents political instability, a dry river bed the Nile’s failure to flood etc). This leads to an introduction of the Key Question along with lesson aims and graduated objectives (all will/most will/some will). After this there are 6 slides of background information to allow for teacher exposition. The PPT then reveals five key factors in a starfish diagram and students are placed in ‘jigsaw’ groups of 5 and issued 1 fact-file on one of the factors. Their task is to later explain their factor and convince their peers of its importance in answering the Key Question. They then use this information to answer a piece of extended written work. The lesson concludes with reference back to the starfish diagram introduced earlier, which students label with Post-It notes to demonstrate learning. I hope your students enjoy this lesson as much as mine always do. It has been created for high school students but could be adapted to work with slightly younger students too.

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Wishing you a terrific day.