Our Pharaoh Lessons

This week we have been learning all about Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. We reversed roles for the afternoon and the children became the teachers! Each group was given some information about a different famous Pharaoh and the task of teaching this to the rest of the class. A concentrated 15 minutes was allowed for groups to prepare their lessons in any way they chose.

Our first group created a poster to help them teach us about Cleopatra; the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. They told us about her famous husbands - Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Ptolemy. We also heard how she allowed a snake to bite her with poison which killed her!!

This group taught us all about King Tutankhamen, the 'boy king' who was only 9 years old when he became Pharaoh. They acted out the discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter in 1922.

Ramesses II (the Great) was explained to us by our third group. They told us how he was married to Nefartari and is believed to have had over 100 children!!

Our final group taught us about Hatshepsut, a very successful female Pharaoh. However as we found out, she used to dress up as a man so people wouldn't know she was a woman.