Connecting with Canadians

                         We are learning about our home. We are working on singing O'Canada correctly and understanding how the words represent our country. We have been discussing Remeberance day through readings about soldiers and citizens who were affected by war.

Ocanada song.wmv

Ancient Egypt

     Vocabulary on a Label Table

   Lesson 1: Read "Magic Tree House, Mummies in the Morning"

   Lesson 2: Location of Ancient Egypt

• Ask students what continent they think Egypt is on, Locate it on a word map
• Look at Egypt using Google Earth (Ask what do they see and notice?... Hopefully this will be the river)
• Discuss the Nile River and how it was useful for farming because it flooded each year and made the land fertile
• On a map of Egypt student will colour the Nile River Blue and draw a dot for each major city located on the river Map of Ancient Egypt

   Lesson 3: 

• Discuss that not everyone in Ancient Egypt could write. It was a job only certain people had and they were called SCRIBES. The writing scribes used was called HIEROGLYPHS.

          Hieroglyph presentation

• Explain how we have learnt about hieroglyphs from the rosetta stone
• Practice at home writing their names using Hieroglyphs (Worksheet)
• Student will write their own name in paint using hieroglyphs Cartouche outline
• Discuss how Ancient Egyptians wrote on the first form of paper called PAPYRUS

                    Watch the video of how papyrus is made

Lesson 4: Pharaohs

• Read Page 6 In "Historical Civilizations: Ancient Egypt"
• Create a class web of the different hats a pharoah wears (Police, judge, prime minister, priest, business man)
• 3 centers: Look at King Tut book, colour pharaoh picture, creat own pharoah web using inspiration         Sample Web

  Egyptian colouring page

Lesson 5: Mummies

• Read page 12 in "Historical Civilizations: Ancient Egypt"
• On the board write out the steps of making a mummy
• Studets use their own sheet to write out the steps for making a mummy
  • Mummy Sheet

Lesson 6: Pyramids

• Read a couple of books about pyramids
• Discuss what a pharoah would want to be put in a pyramid with their mummy
• Using a pyramid net students cut out the net, draw a picture of a mummy and some things he would want with him and then close it up to make a pyramid.
  • Printable Pyramid nets

Lesson 7: Gods and Godesses

• Read to students a page from an Ancient Egypt book about the religion of Ancient Egypt
• Give each student a Gods and Goddesses Page
• Students will then do a Who is it? game where one student will identify a god or goddess and the other students will use their cheat sheet to figure out which god they are talking about.

Lesson 8: Daily Life

• Students will do their own research for this lesson. They will be given a questionaire and will need to use our diffferent Egypt resources to find the answers.

Other Great Sites

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001590/data/gods/pharaohs.htm

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