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Across the curriculum

Getting started

An interdisciplinary plan which shows how studying Egypt in different curriculum areas can support achievement in French.

Expressive arts

Use drama to explore the moment when a French historian discovered how to read hieroglyphics.

Religious and moral education

Learners can explore a creation myth to discover a key ancient belief from Egypt about how the world was created.

Social studies

Use the image of a shabti figure from the collection in the National Museums of Scotland as a context for the challenges.

Mathematics and numeracy

Explore different mathematical concepts with the ancient Egyptian numbering system, patterns in Islamic art and creating a scale model of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Sciences

Learners can make their own paper as they investigate ancient Egyptian writing.

Technologies

Learners examine the differences between streets in Egypt and Scotland and create their own Yacoubian Street shops