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#1
Begin your dig by checking out:
Write in your journal about what you saw.
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#2
Go to the glossary.sheet
in the classroom dig site.
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#3
Check out
Ancient
Egypt to answer the following questions.
- What materials were used by the Ancient Egyptians
for their sculpture?
- is the front, back, or whole body of a stature the
most important?
- Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?
- What did they do with the internal organs when
they were removed?
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#4
Go to
Mummies
on the Web
Read the following articles and write about
each in your journal. (*3)
- Mummification
- Mummies
- Ask the Mummy.
- How to Make a Mummy
- Mummy FAQ
- The Mummy Project
- Discover what the Cybermummy can tell you by
clicking on the questions to learn more about the
mummy.
Look at the mummies at the other sites and write about
what you saw in your journal.
- Write in your journal about what you learned.
Read
Corkankhamun
Explains Mummification
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#5
Check out at least 10 pictures of the
pyramids
of Egypt.
- Choose 5 and write about your pyramids in your
journal
- Build a pyramid using the directions and blocks
found in The Egyptian Adventure box.
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#6
Learn about some
artifacts
found in tombs. Click on each listing to look at the
artifacts.
- Read the
Fact
or Fiction page. Write 10 things you learned in your
journal. (*5)
- Pick one or more pictures from the
Coloring
Book or choose a picture from one of the Egyptian
coloring books in the room and color it.
Visit the
Virtual Museum at Tour Egypt.
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#7
Check out some Egyptian gods at
Ancient
Egyptian Lives (many have pictures),
Great
9 Egyptian Gods and
More
Gods or
Egyptian
Mythology.
- Read their descriptions.
- Choose ten gods and write a description of each
god. (*5).
- Draw a picture of each if possible.
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#8
Go to
The
Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs. Read the page. Press
<enter>.
- Create a drawing of an Ancient Egyptian by
following the directions.
- Draw a scene of Ancient Egypt.
Go to Color Me
Egypt. or Egyptian
Coloring Book in Kids Section
- Choose at least one of the pictures to color. The
pictures are in the dig site area of the classroom.
- Create a mural drawing of a scene from Ancient
Egypt as shown from the interior or the exterior of a
tomb, temple, or palace.
- Make a diorama or scene showing a part of the
lives of Ancient Egyptians
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#9
Read
Guardians
King Tut
Go to Build a Pharaoh.
- ·Create a pharaoh's mask using the directions
here or the directions in the book, Make it Work!
Ancient Egypt.
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#10
Watch
Quick
Time Virtual Reality Panoramas of the Giza Plateau
- The Temple of Sett I
- Abydos
- Kom Ombo
- Luxor
- The Sphinx
- Write in your journal about at least 2
panoramas.
Look at some artifacts of Ancient Egypt.
- Click on the bottom of the object to read about
the object.
- Write in your journal about at leat 3 objects.
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#11
ReadGuardians
King Tut
Look at some
coffins
and sarcophaguses to see how they are decorated.
- Create a coffin / sarcophagus out of butcher
paper.
- Have a member of your dig group lay down on top of
a piece of butcher paper.
- Lightly trace around him/her. (Be sure the "mummy"
folds his/her arms on top of his/her chest.)
- Separate the coffin into three parts: The head,
the chest, and the lower body.
- Decorate your body. (If your person is a pharaoh
don't forget the flail and crook and the false
beard.)
- Make a strip down the center or separating the
body parts and write the names of your dig group in
hieroglyphics.
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#12
Go to Wild
Egypt Visit the Nile, the Red Land, and the Sea.
- Be sure to look and read all three pages.
- Write in your journal about each area.
Read about
3 famous
pharaohs.
- Khufu
- Amenhotep
- Tutankhamun
- Write in your journal about your pharaohs
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#13
Go to Quiz
on Ancient Egypt. and
another
quiz
- Read each of the descriptions.
- Decide which picture best fits the facts.
- Write down each solution you try in your dig
journal.
- (If you want to check out the other answers once
you get it right, you don't have to write it down.)
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#14
Read about
the
Rosetta Stone and why it was important to understanding
hieorglyphics.
Read about
hieroglyphics
the alphabet.
- Translate at least one page in
A
Little Eyptian.
- Have
your
name written in hieroglyphics.
- Print a copy of your name.
- Create a cartouche of your name out of
clay.
- Write word or sentence and have it translated to
hieroglyphs. Print out your new sentence (Be sure to keep
the English version in your journal.)
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#15
Go to the
Symbol
List.
- Use the diagram at the classroom dig site to show
you how to number.
- Write the name of the symbol and tell something
about the symbol.
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#16
Go to
The
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Pyramid. and seaarch the
tomb.
- Click on the numbers to take a walk around the
pyramid.
- Write in your journal about what you see.
Go to Sites and Monuments-Guardian's Egypt
- Write in your journal about what you see.
Create a pyramid.
- Draw pictures on the inside sides
- Write about an area you have visited in Egypt on
the bottom square of the pyramid.
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#17
Go to the
Guardian
Sphinx.
- Read about the Great Sphinx and look at the
pictures.
- Write in your journal about the Great Sphinx.
- Carve a sphinx out of a bar of soap.
Go to the
Mystery
Pyramid.
- Read about the Mystery Pyramid and look at the
pictures.
- Write in your journal about the Mystery
Pyramid..
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#18
Go to
Akhet
Egyptology Mummy Project
- Go to NMS Mummy Project
- Go to New Facial reconstruction of the Portrait
Mummy
- Click on a "painted portrait", "feet", "see the
amazing reconstruction of the mummy's face.
- Write in your journal about what your saw.
Go back and click on Egyptian Mythology
- Read all the myths.
- Write in your journal about at least two
myths.
Go back to click and look at the artifacts in the rest
of the sections.
- Tell which was your favorite and why in your
journal.
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#19
Check out some students Ancient Egyptian
burial
chambers.
- Construct your
own
mummy.
- Construct a burial chamber in which to put your
mummy.
- Your burial chamber should include wall paintings,
the sarcophagus with a coffin in it, canopic jars, and
items your Egyptian will need in the afterlife.
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#20
Visit a 3-D Ancient Museum.CD
- Use pointer to travel around the "Reconstruction
of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy" CD.
- Write in your journal about your trip .
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#21
Go to
The
Curse of the Pharaoh
- Check out at least 10 pictures of the pyramids of
Egypt.
- Choose 5 and write 2 or 3 sentences about each
pyramid.
- Take a virtual trip through a pharaoh's tomb.
- Build a pyramid using the directions and blocks
found in the Egyptian Adventure box.
- Visit the pyramid and read the article.
- Write in your journal about what your
learned.
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#22
Go to
Egyptian
Sites and Monuments
- Click on the Temple of Abu Simbel (Back out when
you've finished an area)
- Click on the entrance.
- Click on the massive stone.
- Click on the innermost chamber..
- Click on pharaoh, Ramses II.
- Click on Nefertari, some of his wives, figure
of god Re-Harakhte, row of baboons, large hall, one of
the heads on the temple, and the map of the
temple.
- Click on the center icon at the bottom showing
the map, then click on the orange areas
- Check out at least 3 other sites. Be sure to look
at each part inside the site.
- Write about what you saw and learned in your
journal.
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#23
Take a photographic trip through Egypt at Rigby's
Tour
of Egypt
- Read about each site and look at the pictures.
- Write in your journal about what you saw and
read.
Take a
CyberJourney
of Ancient Egypt.
- Visit each site.
- List each site as you visit it.
- Click and drag on the image to take a look around
the site.
- Write in your journal about what you saw.
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#24
Click on
The
Pyramid Crosswords Puzzle
- Read the article "Understanding Ancient Egyptian
Beliets"
- Get a Copy of the puzzle from the dig site.
- Do the Crossword Puzzle.
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#25
Learn about many of the
pharaohs
and significant people of ancient Egypt.
Click on the names of the pharaohs to learn about
them. (The ones with the black symbol have pictures.)
Write in your journal about 5 pharaohs.
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