Who owns the past?

Teacher notes

This lesson is suitable for KS3/4 history and explores the rich physical evidence of history in Sudan. The film Spiderman of Sudan includes scenes of civil unrest. **Lyfta Core Skills and Values** Active Citizenship & Activism, Coaching & Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, Creativity & Innovation, Critical Thinking, Empathy & developing multiple perspectives, Information Retrieval, Human Rights, Intercultural Competence, Resilience & Perseverance. **Lyfta Core themes:** Culture and Identity, Equality and Human Rights, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Technology and Engineering. **SDGs:** 1, 4, 10, 11, 16. **National Curriculum Objectives:** KS3/4 History There are opportunities in this lesson to develop historical enquiry skills across a range of age groups at an appropriate level, including learning about: - the nature of ancient civilisations: the achievements of the earliest civilizations (Kushite Empire) including comparisons with Ancient Egypt - the expansion and dissolution of empires - characteristic features of past non-European societies - develop historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’ - understand methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence has been used to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.