Chapter Four ~ Extra Activities

Pyramids of Egypt
http://www.coloring-pictures.net/drawings/Egypt/Egyptian-pyramids.gif

Build a Pyramid Game
http://www.discovery.com/games/pyramid/pyramid.html

Ancient mummies revealed in Egypt (VIDEO)
Egyptian archaeologists have found more than 20 mummies in a burial chamber dating back at least 2,600 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7883914.stm

Mummies of Ancient Egypt
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/index.html

Play the Game “SENET”!
http://www.clevelandart.org/kids/egypt/senet.html
How to Play Senet:
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/senetgame.PDF

Play Game: “Hounds and Jackals”!
http://www.clevelandart.org/kids/egypt/houndjacks.html

Make your own Pyramid (pdf)
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/buildpyramid.pdf

Canopic Jars
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/canopicjar.PDF

Make your own Mummy:
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/mummymaking.PDF

Make a 3-D Scarab!
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/scarab3dcutout.pdf

Egyptian Tomb Adventure Game:
http://www.nms.ac.uk/education__activities/kids_only/egyptian_tomb_adventure.aspx

Pharaohs Curse Game:
http://kids.aol.com/KOL/2/Games/FlashHolder/Pharaohs-Curse

Chapter Three ~ Extra Activities

Carving Hieroglyphs
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/writing.jpg

More information about Hieroglyphs:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian.htm

Hieroglyphics Translator
http://www.quizland.com/hiero.mv

Make Your Own Cartouche
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cartouche/cartouche.html
And another version:
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/makecartouche.pdf

Cartouche Color Pages
http://www.joanlansberry.com/arch2008/jalhier2.png
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/6100/6153/hieroglypics_1_lg.gif

Papyrus Paper to print:
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/papyruspaper.PDF

Make your own Papyrus
http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Lesson/FauxPapyrusPaper.pdf

Chapter Two ~ Extra Activities

The kids love games, can’t blame them.

Stumbling through the internet for activities for my kids to do and I found a few good ones for us. Maybe they will be good for you, too!  One thing the kids can’t get enough of is interactives. So I try to dig around for them to have something to do. Right now, we are starting Chapter 2 and of course it is all about Ancient Egypt for a while!
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Here are the games and activities:

Ancient Egypt Map
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/images/geogmape.gif

Color Pages for the Gods:
Osiris: http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Color/Osiris.jpg
Isis: http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Color/Isis.jpg
Set: http://www.museumofidaho.org/Education/Add/Color/Set.jpg

• From the University of Chicago:
  http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/kids.html
  Prepare a body for Mummification!
  Learn from images on a relief in an tomb!
  See artwork from Ancient Egypt!
  And see a fun time-line!
  
  
• From the Royal Ontario Museum:
  http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/activities/egypt/learn/
  Too many things to list them all, but here are a few:
  Hierglyphic Alphabet Chart
  Map of Ancient Egypt
  Primary Sources of Information
  Secondary Sources of Information
  Interactive Time Line
  Curses
  Vocabulary
  Who was Who?
  
  
• From the University College London:
  http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/Welcome.html
  Digital Egypt. Hard to explaing this one. You just have to go there and click on the photos, yourself.

Chapter One ~ Extra Activities

Chapter 1:
Fertile Crescent Map
http://www.e-dukasi.net/mol/datafitur/modul_online/MO_56/images/sej103_22.gif
A Farmer and his Shaduf
http://www.history-science-technology.com/images/clip_image012.jpg

Introductory Chapter ~ Extra Activities

Videos:

These are videos that we found helpful. You should watch them before showing them to you children, of course. Please be sure they are appropriate for your family.

What is Archaeology?

A young woman describes her idea of what Archaeology is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj-Oq8vk3N4

A Day in the Life of an Archaeologist

This is relatively short.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdzmH3jNkU0

3D Scanning in Egypt from Konica Minolta Sensing

This video has an annoying audio track. However, the video is useful in discussing how modern day Archaeologists “Dig” for information from the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIZY_YIN3w

Chapter: Introduction / What is Archaeology?

This first introductory chapter did not have any new information for my children. There were no huge revelations, except for the fact the the author tied that information together in such a way that my second grader and my fourth graders had a light-bulb moment, where they finely “got it”. They now understand the whole idea of history, and how written works, or items carelessly discarded along the roadway, could act as a sort of “letter” or message from the past!

The book, and plan usually call for you to stop between the two sections of every chapter, but the children would not allow that. They wanted more!

We also read the second half of the introductory chapter, titled: “What is Archaeology?”. Again, just perfect! They felt they new the content, they were knowledgeable about what the writer was talking about, but now they understood again, just HOW it all falls together.

This book, encourages the use of outside elements to supplement the curriculum, such as books. We have also pointed out, in our after-reading-debates, that past experiences can help us learn and understand the current thing we are leaning. For example, the children loved the TV series “Life Without People”. Now, when they read in this book, about how a house can degenerate over time, they can actually visualise this action, from the memories of watching that TV program.

Here are some YouTube clips of that program:

Welcome to our Journey!

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