How did we communicate in the past?
In our project this term we will be learning all about how humans have communicated their thoughts, feelings, stories and messages in the past. We will brainstorm many different ways of communicating from ancient worlds to more recent times in this century and explore how these have changed over time.
Watch these video about the evolution of communication. What questions do you have? What would you like to find out more about?
First human communication
How did the first humans on earth communicate with each other and pass on their knowledge and stories to the next generation?
Ancient Egypt
Learn about the ancient Egyptians in these websites, take a quiz, watch a video and discover lots of interesting facts about an ancient language called hieroglyphics.
Challenge: See if you can write you name or a secret message in the hieroglyphics alphabet.
Ancient Japanese Writing
Pigeon Messengers
Morse Code
Old telephones
Some epic books to explore on ways of communicating in the past
Doing a Research Project - What you need to know......
Before we start to do any research on our topic we need to find out what we already know. We can do this by brainstorming and sharing our ideas with others.