Ancient Egypt Achievements Mind Map

Year 3 HistoryAncient Egypt2 pages

About this worksheet

Six branches make up this Year 3 history mind map on the achievements of Ancient Egypt, over two pages. Five branches each come with three guiding questions, on pyramids and temples, picture-writing and paper, farming on the Nile, medicine and maths, and gold and art. Pupils write facts, examples and vocabulary on the lines under each one. The sixth branch is blank for pupils to name, with ideas such as the 365-day calendar or the board game Senet. There is no answer key. It supports the England National Curriculum depth study of an early civilization.

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Curriculum objectives covered

The achievements of the earliest civilizations

“The achievements of the earliest civilizations - an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of one of the following: Ancient Sumer; The Indus Valley; Ancient Egypt; The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China”

The sheet covers the Ancient Egypt depth study through five areas of achievement. It does not cover where and when the first civilizations appeared.

What's inside this worksheet

Branch: Monumental Builders

Clues ask how builders moved huge limestone blocks without machines, and pupils name a pyramid, sphinx or temple that still survives.

Branch: Scribes and Sacred Symbols

Questions on the Egyptian picture-writing system, the river reed flattened to make paper, and why scribes were respected.

Branch: Masters of the River Nile

Pupils write about the yearly floods (akhet) and black silt, the counterweight tool that lifted water into canals, and boats used for trade.

Branch: Medicine, Maths and the Human Body

Clues on what embalmers learned from mummification, honey and linen bandages for wounds, and remeasuring fields after the floods.

Branch: Crafts, Gold and Fine Art

Questions on gold masks and jewellery, the rules for painting figures on tomb walls, and objects such as amulets and pottery.

Your Branch

A blank branch for pupils to name and fill, with two or three guiding questions of their own.

How teachers use it

Research lesson

Put books on each table and give each group one branch to research, then share facts so every pupil can fill all five.

Unit review

Hand out the map at the end of the topic with no books, to see what pupils remember about the Nile and the scribes.

Early finishers

Let pupils who finish early pick Senet for their own branch and find out how the game was played.

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