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.