Pyramid building

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This was the seventh lesson in a term's topic on Ancient Egypt with a large Year 4 class. The class had already covered everyday life, the Nile, farming, homes, hieroglyphs and mummies.

I planned this lesson on pyramid-building to cater for a range of learning styles and abilities, so that all the children were included and were given opportunities to learn in their preferred style. The lesson therefore incorporated visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning activities.

There are links with Science, Maths, and DT.

For background information see Building the Great Pyramid on the BBC website. Here is another theory about how it was built - using a spiral ramp inside the pyramid.

by Candice Bell

Experts disagree about how the ancient Egyptians moved the stones