Mummies are fascinating relics of the Egyptian civilization and a great place to start investigating – not with a real body, of course, but with a tomato! Remember – we don’t have to teach something that fits into a QCA unit to be teaching science well, any investigation that develops a science skill is worthwhile, so enjoy investigating. I’ve come up with one or two science investigations that will enhance your Egyptians topic but still maintain the integrity of the science. Why forces? Because they needed to drag the stones to make the pyramids, didn’t they! Hmm…tenuous? In fact I grew up teaching the ‘integrated day’ where every subject was rammed into ‘the topic’ whether it fitted or not and ‘doing the Egyptians’ was the time to teach pyramids in shape, rivers in geography and forces in science.
Debbie Herridge unwraps the mummy of ‘topic work’ and discovers a wealth of practical science experiments within.
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