Lesson 1 Ancient Egypt Year 7 Hass Week 7

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The passage discusses a sample lesson plan about Ancient Egypt that teaches students about the locations and time periods of important Mediterranean civilizations like the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians as well as the geographical features and sites of Ancient Egypt.

The main geographical features that influenced Ancient Egypt discussed in the passage were the Nile River and its delta, tributaries like the White and Blue Niles, and the fertile floodplains known as the 'Black Lands'.

The passage mentions some of the uses of the Nile River for the Ancient Egyptians were transportation, irrigation for agriculture, and as a source of fresh water.

Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 7 Time: P5 Date: 8/6/20 Students’ Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: HaSS- History

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum


The physical features and how they influenced the
civilisation that developed there (ACDSEH002)

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)


Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:


 Identify the locations of the ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean (Romans, Greek, Egyptians) on a
map
 Identify the time periods in which these civilisations existed
 Identify the key geographical sites and features of ancient Egypt

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:


o Create PowerPoint slides o ‘hint’ sections for some questions
o Create and print worksheets o Scaffolded lesson with PowerPoint
o Organise groups presentation
o Colour code scrap paper o Verbal and visual PowerPoint
o Check computers and projector are working

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)


Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the
segment where they will
be introduced.
1:35pm Students enter and stand behind desks
Students are seated, roll is called

1:40pm Recap and Intro: What do you know about Ancient Egypt “Crumple and Scrap paper
Shoot”
Group sorting system
Using scrap paper, students write down a point they know about the following (team colours page)
topics relating to Ancient Egypt.
 People
 Places/Geography
 Things
 Events
 Jobs
 Archaeology
Students divided into groups (vertical rows Left- Blue, Middle- Yellow, Right-
Red). Each group will be asked for one answer under each of the topics.

Students raise their hand and read the answer aloud. If the answer is correct,
they may throw their paper into the bin/box for paper. (probing questions if the
answer is unclear). At the end

The number of ‘baskets’ each group gets is tallied and the group wins the Tally on board (marker)
game.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

1:50pm Activity 1:
Fill in the blanks on a map: Identify the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians on PowerPoint slides
an ‘Ancient World Map’ (whiteboard and worksheet) ‘Ancient Egypt’
1. Teacher is to display a blank map on the board of the World (with
numbers in significant locations.) Worksheet ‘Egypt in the
2. Students are to identify each of the locations and label the map in Ancient World’
their worksheet from the board.
3. Teacher Led: as a class each group will be asked to identify the
location and its corresponding number.
4. As a class discuss the time periods in which the Mediterranean world
existed.
Key Questions:
a) What continent is Egypt on? (Africa)
b) What continent is Greek and Rome on? (Europe)
c) Does anyone know what this section of the world is called

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(Mediterranean)

d) When in history do you think the Egyptians, Greeks and


Romans lived? (timeline, gaging prior knowledge for Tuesdays lesson)
e) What sources do you think could tell us this?
(primary/secondary/archaeology)

2:15pm Activity 2:
Main Geographical Features and Key Sites: ‘Ancient Egypt Map’
(Jacaranda HaSS WA p.321) Identify the key sites in Egypt for the Ancient Worksheet ‘Egypt in the
Egyptians (Nile, White and Blue Nile, ‘The Black Lands’ floodplains) and label Ancient World’
blank map in the worksheet.
Key Questions: Jacaranda ‘HaSS WA’
a) Locate the Delta of the Nile (What is a Delta?) textbook
b) Describe the shape of the Nile
c) Explain the geographical features of the Nile, and its surrounds
d) Suggest some of the uses of the Nile (list 3)
e) What is the green on the map representing?
f) What does fertile land mean?
g) What activities would the Ancient Egyptians do with this land?
h) Why do they call this the Black Lands? (silt)
i)What is inundation? (flooding into the floodplains, used for agriculture
etc.)

2:20pm Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

Exit Tickets: students are to tell the class one interesting thing about Ancient
Egypt that they learned in the lesson (if short on time select a few)

2:20pm Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

Before next lesson students are to complete the worksheet for homework.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)

o Crumple and Shoot responses (gage prior learning)


o Answers to the worksheet
o Verbal discussion throughout the lesson (go through worksheet
together, verbalise questions, students write the response)
o Exit ticket responses (gage understanding from the lesson)

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