Lesson Plans: Visit Ancient Egypt with VR

This is part of our Lesson Plan Focus series. To download samples of the planning materials that come included in the ClassVR Subscription, see </school-curriculum-content-subjects/sample-lesson-plans/>

Ancient Egypt was always one of my favourite topics in school, both as a teacher and a student. Like most history topics it is all about stories and I love a good story. Throw in ancient structures, incredible discoveries and ongoing mysteries and you have a topic to enrapture even the most passive students.

Our current ‘Inside the Tomb’ lesson plan ideas were written with 7-8 year olds in mind, however there is no reason why the experiences couldn’t be used to enrich teaching and learning within this topic across different age groups.

Explore Ramesses Tomb

ramesses vi tomb vr

Age 4 to 7 years

Younger children can create Egyptian dances with some adult support and guidance. Ideas could be collected as a class which could then be performed together. This would allow them to be exposed to Egyptian music and could even be used as an opportunity to tell a story through their movements. Alternatively, they can do a virtual shape hunt, looking for 2D and 3D shapes in a real environment.

Age 8 to 11 years

For this age group, there are existing lesson plans that can be used, including using the VR experiences to focus on the importance of the Nile during a study of rivers. This can form the basis of an investigation of the impact of rivers on ancient settlements and civilizations. Furthermore this is an ideal age group to look at the embalming process, where students can act this out or create a comic strip showing the steps involved.

Age 11 to 14 years

Older students could use the immersive experiences as powerful stimuli for writing or speaking and listening activities, exploring a range of genres in the process. They would lend themselves well to historical narratives, journalistic writing to report on important discoveries e.g. Howard Carter unearthing King Tut’s tomb as well as a debate about where Ancient Egyptian artefacts belong.

Request your FREE ClassVR Demo Today!

Interested in introducing virtual reality to your school?

Experience the world’s most awarded VR & AR solution for schools, ClassVR, by booking a no obligation demo today and learn how you can enhance your lessons with this exciting technology!

Related Categories

What would you like to see next in our ClassVR content and resources repository?

We love to hear feedback from schools all over the world, so if you have any suggestions of resources you would like to use or lessons you want to teach, just drop our Educational Services team an email at: community@classvr.com

Privacy Overview

This website uses a number of cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs a number of functions, such as recognising you when you return to our website, and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Please navigate through the sections on the right to learn more detail about the specific cookies that are in use on this website, where you can disable them if you wish. Please note that doing so, may cause certain features on the website to stop working correctly.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

3rd Party Cookies

This website uses products including Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website for our visitors.

Cookie Policy

Please see the following section within our Privacy Policy, for more information about our Cookie Policy