Ancient Egypt

Introduction

Welcome to the Land of Ancient Egypt. During this one week episode, middle school students (grades 6-8) are adventuring an experience to explore the past and current historical facts of Ancient Egypt. In each section, students discover the arts and displays in the makings of Ancient Egypt. Students, please make journey enjoyable with the pleasure of these lessons. Each assigned group are assigned to search and create extra activities on Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt: An interesting and engaging students in learning the history and cultures of Ancient Egypt.

Introduction: Welcome to the learning enchantment environment of the history and the Land of Ancient Egypt. Take a journey and explore the images of Ancient Egypt back into the early times. The Web page will be filled with various interesting facts and figures of Ancient Egypt. Each day sources have information which introduce civilizations of Ancient Egyptian cultures.

1. What is an Egyptian?

2. What are the locations of Egypt and viewings from the map with keys?

3. Who were the Gods of Egypt and their functions?

4. What are the differences and comparisons of Ancient Egypt, India, and Greece?

5. Describe the past events and stories about Ancient Egypt?

6. What are the current events and stories about Ancient Egypt? (Resources are available from the

website)

Task

Middle school students are visitors from the United States who have just completed a chapter on Ancient Egypt in social studies. The classroom has received an award and invitation from previous learners who will be their host and hostess in each section to learn and understand displays on Ancient Egypt. There will be a five day visit which includes a rotation. A list of sections will be provided for students to decide which day for them to explore. Immediately after the visit, each student will write a thank you letter or create a postcard on how much they enjoyed their visit.

Choose a day in which an activity that you are interested in.

Groups working in teams.

Process

Five Day Lesson Activity Plans:

1. The Gods of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

2. Hieroglyphic Art/Creating Letters, Phrases, *Parental Guidance

3. Facts about pyramids

4. Drawings in Egyptian

5. Choice of Activities:

-Create a timeline of events

-Create postcards from Ancient Egyptian using technology

-Draw posters of culture

-Holidays

6. Learn about the history and foods of the Egyptians

-Go over recipes

-Simple Egyptian Foods

-Handouts on simple recipes

-Share/sample

7. Visit the created Museum. Students created artifacts from art and displayed.

8. Make mummies, pyramids, and other Egyptian artifacts.

***Parents/Legal Adult Guardians of students ages 18 and under, please supervise for paper creation when use for hieroglyphic writing.

Evaluation

Evaluation Rubric:

1 point=Beginning,

2 points=Moderate

3 points=Average

4 points=Exceeded

Visual and Knowledge: (1)The student only showed the basic understanding of the material.

(2)The student demonstrated slight understanding of the material.

(3)The student provided adequate details and demonstrated good understanding

related to the material.

(4)The student showed adequate evidence with high level of understanding the

material.

Score: 25%

Use of Resources: (1)The student was missing resource materials or no evidence used.

(2)The student provided moderate resources with limited details.

(3)The student showed significant evidence related to the subject topic.

(4)The student provided and shared adequate resources which showed high

evidence.

Score: 25%

Presentation: (1)The student did not cooperate and presented incomplete work.

(2) Insufficient amount of cooperation and did not provide teacher his/her plans.

(3)Cooperated well with students. Able to communicate with proper voice tones.

Refused to agree with others.

(4)Great role model leader in charge. Handled problems well. Showed excellent

teamwork. Willing to share and answer questions.

Score: 25%

Writing Process/ (1)Lack of details. Excessive amount of grammatical or spelling errors.

Essay

(2)Writing contains a moderate amount of grammatical or spelling errors.

References no show.

(3)Less amount of grammatical errors. Sufficient amount of details. Proper

references provided.

(4)No grammatical or spelling errors. Proper references provided.

Score: 25%

Total Score: 100%

Conclusion

This is the final day of the five day journey in Egypt. Thank you middle school students and staff for taking time to visit the Ancient Egyptian displayed classroom. Staff (who helped design and create) would appreciate thoughts and comments from every teacher and student. We hope everyone enjoyed and learned hands-on experience and facts about Ancient Egyptian over any arguments. This created design contains extra details and insights which can be found on the websites following the next section about Ancient Egypt from past to present. Additional information are listed in resources.