a fun egypt website.

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

Ancient Civilizations Projects

Here are the projects we worked on today.  Each project should show a water source, some sort of shelter/protection, and a food source.  Additionally, it may show some of the other elements of a civilization such as religion or government.

2012 Ancient Civilizations Projects - slideshows

Projects

We are wrapping up our Unit on Ancient Civilizations. Today, students worked in groups to create an ancient civilization. We have identified different ideas that were common to all of the civilizations we studied (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China). All of them were founded on fertile land near river. They all established some sort of religion and written language. Also, they all developed a form of government and a social structure. The first project was started today. They formed their groups and started to plan a model of their own ancient civilization. Tomorrow they will be creating their models, so they might be asking to bring some materials to school today. I will have plenty of construction paper, as well glue sticks and markers. I am very excited about some of the plans I saw that clearly showed they understand what a civilization might look like. On Monday, we will be doing the second project, which will be letter to a neighboring kingdom that describes what the religion, social order, and government are like. They will then create their own pictograph language that transcribes the letter they have written. Both of these projects are to be completed entirely in class.

The Hebrews

Today we read about Judaism, which developed around 1800 BCE in Mesopotamia.  We read a short story about how Hebrews(Jews) believe Abraham started their religion.  Then we did some fill in notes from the Mr. Dowling site http://mrdowling.com/603-hebrews.html.  We then used our Atlas of World History to map some of the movements of the Hebrew people.

This week's homework is to create a stick figure cartoon that shows the beginnings of Judaism based on our reading "The Origins of Judaism.  I will go into fuller detail on Wednesday and this will be due on Friday.