EGYPTIAN MUMMIES

Session Focus Children will create a ‘body map’ with natural materials, naming major organs and identifying their position. They will create a ‘death mask’ using natural materials.

Curriculum Links

History: Understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world & the nature of ancient civilisations.DT: Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately; generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through patterns.Science: Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

ResourcesLots of natural materials, Info sheet & task sheet (scroll down).Risk Assessments Generic Site RA; Stick Activities RA; Handling Natural

Materials RA.

PIONEER SCHEME SECTION OBJECTIVES

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WELLBEING & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Make links between their feelings and experiences.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

• Shows awareness of basic environmental issues across seasons.

CREATIVITY & IMAGINATION

• Asks and tests questions and ideas as they create with natural materials.

RESILIENCE & PROBLEM SOLVING

• Willing to stick at activities they find difficult.

• Shows increasing confidence to share their own thoughts and feelings.

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SESSION REFLECTIONS

ANCIENT EGYPT

Session Outline

• What do the children already know about Ancient Egyptians Mummification Processes? What organs were kept inside the body and which were taken out? What do these organs do? Where are they found on our bodies? What was the purpose of a ‘death mask?’

• Explain today that they are going to create an Ancient Egyptian body design with natural materials. Firstly, they need to create their body shape with natural materials, then symbolise the 4 significant organs that are mummified and finally create a ‘death mask’ of their own design with natural materials.

• Split them into small groups and allow lots of creativity for their designs.

Differentiation: HA- Use creativity in their design. Knows the function and location of major organs in the body.LA/ SEND- Simpler design, help with shapes and locations.Extension:Can the children extend their design of their ancient Egyptian mummy by creating amulets?

EGYPTIAN MUMMIES - Information about the Process of Mummification

ANCIENT EGYPT

• Preservation of the body after death was a very important ritual of Ancient Egyptians as they believed this enabled them to use their body in the after-life. Ancient Egyptians believed that after they died they would travel to another world to lead another life and would need all the things they had used. Therefore, their precious items were buried with them.

• After death, the god Osiris would carry out the ‘weighing of the heart ceremony’ against the feather of Maat. Egyptians believed that if you had a light heart you had been good, your heart would be returned to your body before mummification and you would pass to the afterlife. However, if you had a heavy heart, you had committed offences and the beast Ammit (head of a crocodile, body of a lion and back legs of a hippo), would gobble it up.

• Anubis was the god of mummification. He had a human body and the head of a jackal. His job was to prepare the bodies of the dead to be received by Osiris.

• The method of preservation was a very lengthy process which lasted up to 70 days and was called mummification.

1. The body was washed 2. The organs were removed, only the heart was left inside 3. The body was filled with stuffing 4. The body was dried by rubbing it with natron salt to dry it out 5. After 40-50 days the stuffing was removed and replaced with sawdust 6. The body was wrapped in linen and covered with a sheet called a shroud 7. The body was placed in a stone coffin called a Sarcophagus 8. The sarcophagus was placed in a tomb with the person’s canopic jars and precious belongings. The person’s tomb was painted with scenes from their life.• The canonic jars stored the dead person’s main organs of the body and were decorated with

the heads of the four sons of Horus, (the God of the sky). - Imsety - had a human head, protected the liver. - Qebehsenuf - had the head of a falcon and guarded the intestines. - Hapy - had a baboon head protected the lungs. - Duamatef - had the head of a jackal, and guarded the stomach.• Poor people were not buried in tombs, they were buried in sand.• Egyptian Kings, called Pharaohs, were buried in pyramids between 2628-1638 BC. These were

built to protect the dead King’s body and belongings.

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EGYPTIAN MUMMIES - TaskANCIENT EGYPT

Create a body shape You could measure around a team member with sticks or

natural materials.

Signify the liver, intestines, lungs and stomach with various natural resources in the correct

place on your mummy model.

Create your own ‘death mask’ using natural materials on the face of your ‘mummy model’.

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