Resources: Handouts, colouring pencils
Support Handout (1): The handout provides six comic strip sections for children to complete, with a word bank for support and hints on what each section should be about.
Core Handout (2): The handout provides six comic strip sections for children to complete, with a word bank for support.
Stretch Handout (3): The handout provides eight comic strip sections for children to complete.
Ask the children, in groups, to act out the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Do they remember the name of the person who found the tomb? What did they find inside the tomb? What happened after the tomb was opened?
Using the presentation, support the children in recapping everything they have learned so far about life in Ancient Egypt. The children will also understand how the building of the pyramids was part of the farming season cycle.
Using the handout, ask the children to create a comic strip showing a year in the life of an Ancient Egyptian farmer. They should include information about building the pyramids during the flooding season, what they did during the other seasons, how the Nile helped them farm and who they were building a pyramid for.
Challenge Task
Ask the children to add information about mummification and hieroglyphics to their comic strip. Can they explain the hieroglyphics that might be added to a pyramid? Can they explain what would happen to the pharaoh's body before it was buried in the pyramid?
Share the comic strips that children have made and ask the children if they would have liked to live as an Ancient Egyptian. What would they have enjoyed? What wouldn’t they have liked?
Teacher Mastery
The Ancient Egyptians built a powerful civilisation along the River Nile, relying on its fertile floodplains for farming, its predictable flooding cycle for growing crops, and its waters for transport, trade, and protection. They believed deeply in the afterlife, seeing their pharaohs as representatives of the gods, and developed the complex process of mummification, removing organs into canopic jars, drying the body with natron, and wrapping it in linen. Egyptian religion included gods such as Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification who guided souls and oversaw the Weighing of the Heart. Their achievements can be explored through archaeology, which uncovers artefacts from different periods, such as stone tools, bronze objects, and iron weapons. The Egyptians were among the first to create a writing system, recording daily life, religious beliefs, and stories about their gods through hieroglyphics, written mainly by scribes; the Rosetta Stone later helped archaeologists decode this script. Their architectural achievements include the pyramids, filled with treasures for the afterlife, and the hidden tombs of the Valley of the Kings, designed to protect royal burials. The most famous discovery there was Tutankhamun’s tomb, found by Howard Carter in 1922, which contained thousands of beautifully preserved artefacts and provided an extraordinary window into this remarkable civilisation.
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