World History: Royal Game of Ur
Lesson Plans and Worksheets
Lesson one: Sources
- Lesson plan: Investigating sources - artefacts
- Worksheet: Source analysis
- Worksheet: Dürer's spot the difference
- Worksheet: Animal pictionary
- Worksheet: Emperor Augustus
Lesson two: World trade
- Lesson plan: Causation - exploration and world trade
- Worksheet: Source analysis
- Worksheet: Biographies
- Worksheet: Pirate treasure
Lesson three: Chronology
- Lesson plan: Chronology
- Worksheet: Definitions of time
- Worksheet: News report
- Worksheet: Object cards
- Worksheet: Odd one out
Lesson Four: Local history
Activities
Pictures
![This is the Royal Game of Ur, a board game made between 2600 and 2400 BC. The aim of the game was to race across the board by moving counters across the squares. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/royal_game_of_ur/royal_game_of_ur.jpg "The Royal Game of Ur")
![The board's wood has decayed, but the hard, decorative pattern of shell, red limestone and lapis lazuli (a blueish mineral) has survived. The counters were made from shale and shell. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/royal_game_of_ur/game_of_ur_close.jpg "The Royal Game of Ur")
More to Explore
Links in the BBC
- A History of the World: Standard of Ur
- A History of the World: Listen to the podcasts
- CBBC: Relic - Guardians of the Museum game
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