Unit 4: Ancient Egypt Timeline

Now that you have read all about life in Ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom, through the Middle Kingdom, and all the way up to the New Kingdom, I want you to create a timeline of some of the most important events in Egyptian history.

Directions:

Step 1: Read the events that you will be using on your timeline

Step 2: Color the pictures that go with the events.

Step 3: Get 4 sheets of paper (same color)

Step 4: Glue them or staple them together end to end, overlapping them about 1 inch. Be sure that your 4 sheets measure at least 1 meter, (100cm)

Step 5: Trace a meter stick with pencil on your paper.

Step 6: Create a Scale. You need to have the years 5000BC - 0 on your timeline. I used 10cm = 500years. (see my example)

Step 7: Mark the scale and write it on your timeline in pencil.

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Step 8: Go over your pencil lines on your number line with marker.

Step 9: Cut out your events and pictures

Step 110: Match your pictures with the proper event.

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Step 11: Glue your events to your timeline being sure to draw your picture and event are aligned, connected somehow. 

Step 12: Title your Timeline

Unit 4: Ancient Egypt: Pyramids

Topic: Pyramids

The pyramids have been called one of the greatest architectural feats of all time. 

Key Questions:

What were the pyramids?

Why did the ancient Egyptians build them?

Who do you think built the Pyramids?

Homework:

Answer the 2 questions below. Be sure to write a short paragraph for each of your responses.

1. Who do you think was the most important person in the building of the pyramids? Why?

2. If you were having a pyramid built for the afterlife, what would you want put in the tomb with you? Why?

Bowling Field Trip

Egypt - Land Features of Egypt, King Tut - Curse or Coincidence, What were the Pyramids? Who Built the Pyramids?

2/2/16 Notes: Important Land Features of Egypt

so....

When I think of Egypt I always think of King Tut!! Even if people don't know much about ancient Egypt, most of them still have heard of King Tut.

Who was King Tut & why does everybody know who he was?

Key Questions:

1. Why is King Tut one of the best known Kings/Pharaohs of ancient Egypt?
2. Who discovered King Tut's tomb?
3. What did the archeologist find inside the tomb?
4. Why didn't archeologists find these kinds of items in the tombs of other kings?
5. What do you think the archeologists learned from King Tut's tomb?

Key Questions:

1. Why is King Tut one of the best known Kings/Pharaohs of ancient Egypt?
2. Who discovered King Tut's tomb?
3. What did the archeologist find inside the tomb?
4. Why didn't archeologists find these kinds of items in the tombs of other kings?
5. What do you think the archeologists learned from King Tut's tomb?

Now consider this...

Did Howard Carter unleash an ancient curse when he opened the tomb of King Tut?

(Reading for information)

King Tut was not buried in a pyramid. If....We know that King Tut was not an important king, but archeologists still found all manner of treasure buried with him in his tomb, and we also know that the pyramids were built as temples to the most powerful king's of Egypt, then can you imagine what archeologists could have found in the pyramids if the tomb raiders hadn't gotten there first!

Key Questions:

• What is a mastaba?
• What did step pyramids symbolize?
• What were the pyramids? 
• What was the main purpose of the pyramids? 
• What were the other purposes?
• Why do you think pyramids were called "Houses of Eternal Life"?

The pyramids have been called one of the greatest architectural feats of all time. 

Who do you think built the Pyramids?

If you were having a pyramid built for the afterlife, what would you want put in the tomb with you?