A great way of engaging students and parents/carers as a homework activity. I’ve personally used homework postcards at the end of different topics and it is lovely to see families engaging with their child’s learning. Great for oracy Great for engaging parents and families Raises motivation for the subject Great for assessment of a child’s knowledge.

Who was Cleopatra? Lesson aim: A complete lesson on Cleopatra which would last about an hour or two. understand who Cleopatra really was. build a body of knowledge about the life of Cleopatra. (She was an important Egyptian Queen during the time of the Romans). Success Criteria: Complete a filling in the gaps exercise Create a quiz on Cleopatra and swop with a partner Write a radio advert which include lots of facts but also suggests what type of leader Cleopatra was Historical Skills: Historical context Historical interpretation Source Analysis

A complete lesson on leisure time in Ancient Egypt. A great lesson for Key Stage 2 & 3. Lesson Aims: What did the Ancient Egyptians do for fun? To find out which pastimes were popular in Ancient Egypt. How is leisure time today different to leisure time in Ancient Egypt? What has stayed the same/similar? Success Criteria: To conduct research on BBC Bitesize To communicate with others To conduct research using source work To complete source analysis using primary sources and COP Historical skills: Change and continuity Source analysis (using COP) Historical context Literacy Skills: Oracy Writing

A challenging lesson exploring the importance of the Rosetta Stone. Lesson Aims: To research the Rosetta Stone To explain why the Rosetta Stone is significant To develop your understanding of the Rosetta Stone and its connection to Hieroglyphics A full lesson which could be completed over an hour or comprehensively in an afternoon. Activities include: A History/questioning matrix Research Blooms Taxonomy range of questions from lower to higher level questioning. Historical skills: Historical significance Historical context Source Analysis Consequence

One hour lesson which could be extended to longer practicing the skill of communicating through hieroglyphics. A complete lesson from connect task, lesson aim, success criteria and consolidate task. A lesson which will help: To build up a knowledge about hieroglyphics. To practice using hieroglyphs Complete a frayer’ model Write a secret message using hieroglyphics Analysis of a primary source as an archaeologist. Historical skills: Historical Content, significance, source analysis.

What happened to King Tut? A CSI style lesson for KS2 and KS3 students. Collect information about King Tut. What diseases did he have? Why injury did he sustain to his skull? Create a police report with your findings. Great literacy lesson whilst developing key historical skills such as Historical Interpretation and significance. To build up a knowledge about the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Explain why the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun is historically important. Explain why the discovery of King Tutankhamun is such an important historical discovery. Decide what happened to King Tut

Become an Egyptologist What might an egyptologist be? Who was Tutankhamun? An hour to two hour lesson for Key Stage 3 students. Development of literacy skills whilst studying Tutankhamun. Key historical concepts- Historical significance and source analysis using COP; content, origin, purpose. Use of PEEL; POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION, LINK. To build up a body of knowledge about the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. To identify content, origin and purpose of a primary source. To explain why the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun is historically important. Connect activity, lesson aim, purpose, success criteria, activate, demonstrate and consolidate activities all included. Bonus creative homework activity: Imagine if historians thousands of years into the future found a picture that had clues about what your life is like in modern times. What sort of clues would you want them to see?