Study the people and cultures of the ancient civilizations while learning about their magnificent achievements in architecture, government, science, philosophy, arts, and religion. Learn about the pharaohs, the pyramids, mummification, and hieroglyphics.

Students will be:

• introduced to the people and their lifestyle in an Ancient Civilization.

• able develop an ability to research, record and report factual information.

• able examine an Ancient Civilization and compare it to a modern society.

• able to relate the effect one civilization has on another civilization.

To the Teacher:

The ideas and activities have been grouped according to different topics pertaining to Ancient Egypt. The information sheets may be duplicated, mounted on a sturdy backing and laminated. Locate illustrations that pertain to Ancient Egypt and use them as covers to make several reference books for students usage at centers. Join the pages together using Cerlox binding. Each information sheet may also be mounted on a file folder and placed at individual centers. The information sheets may be used at a reading center or at a research center. Follow-up activities maybe developed and used with the information sheets.

Introduction and Teacher Planning Information:

• Expectations and List of Skills

• List of Resources

• List of Vocabulary

• Glossary of Egyptian Terms

• Teacher Information – History Overview

• Teacher Input Suggestions

• Maps of Egypt – one outline and one labeled

• Student Tracking Sheet

• Answer Key

Activities:

Reading Information Cards & Reading Activities:

• Reading Information #1: Who are the Egyptians?

• Reading Information #2 Where Were the Ancient Egyptians Located?

• Reading Information #3 Egyptian Homes

• Reading Information #4 Early Egyptian Family Life

• Reading Information #5 Fashion in Ancient Egypt

• Reading Information #6 Early Egyptian Cuisine

• Reading Information #7 Ancient Egyptians at Work

• Reading Information #8 Traveling and Trading in Ancient Egyptian

• Reading Information #9 Egyptian Religion

• Reading Information #10 Egyptian Mummies and Mummification

• Reading Information #11 Egyptian Pyramids

• Reading Information #12 Pharaoh and His Government

Word Study Activities

1. Alphabetical Order

2. Mummy Word Search

3. The Great Pyramid Crossword

4. Secret Syllables

5. Synonyms of a Sphinx

6. Hetephere’s Homonyms

7. The Gender of Words

8. Making Word Plurals

Language Activities

1. Egyptian Nouns

2. Working with Capitalization and Punctuation

3. Sentence Sense

4. Expository Paragraph

5. Subject and Predicate

6. Subject and Predicate

Research Activities

1. What is Natron?

2. Ancient Egyptian Animals

3. Gods and Goddess of Ancient Egypt

4. The World of Spirits

5. The Pharaoh’s of Egypt

6. Who is Pharaoh?

7. Famous Ancient Places

8. The Rosetta Stone

9. Not all Mummies are Egyptian

10. What is Hieroglyphics?

11. Egyptian Inventions

Creative Writing Activities

1. Writing Alliteration

2. A Mummy Mystery

3. Creating a Cinquain

4. An Egyptian Acrostic

5. Going Back in Time

6. Story Starters

7. Writing a “How to Book”

8. Rhyming Couplets

9. Treasures in a Tomb

Math Activities

1. Solving Problems

2. Nefertiti’s Numbers

3. Kinds of Lines

4. Drawing Lines

5. Kinds of Angles

6. How to Read Angles

7. Constructing Triangles

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