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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain terms such as unification and absolute power.
- Identify the skills and behaviours of leaders that contributed to achieving a goal.
- Describe and assess the impact of beliefs on change.
- Identify the significance of trade routes.
- Make deductions and inferences from sources.
- Apply criteria to decide and explain historical significance.
- Describe how and why interpretations are different.
- Make observations and explain historical achievements.
This unit prepares the children for the challenges of Key stage 3 History. It gives them the historical skills of inference, extracting information from sources, evaluating historical figures and the opportunity, like historians, to decide their criteria for significance. The activities are well-suited to children entering Key Stage 3.
Suggested prior learning
How have children’s lives changed?
This assumes that you are following Kapow Primary’s History Long-term plan – standard.
Lessons
Lesson 1: How did Maharaja Ranjit Singh lead within the Sikh Confederacy?
Lesson 2: How did Sikh beliefs impact society?
Lesson 3: How did Lahore become a global trading hub during the Sikh Empire?
Lesson 4: Why was Maharaja Ranjit Singh significant?
Lesson 5: How do different interpretations shape our understanding of the Sikh Empire?
Lesson 6: How do the achievements of the Sikh Empire compare with those of other civilisations?
Key skills
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That change can
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Key vocabulary
absolute power
achievements
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – History Y6: The Sikh Empire
Aimed at pupils, a double page document that gives key facts and definitions from the 'The Sikh Empire' unit.
Vocabulary display: The Sikh Empire
A display version of the key vocabulary from the The Sikh Empire unit.
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