September 2, 2011

This Year's Curriculum: Ancient Egypt

Two years ago we approached history blending Old Testament history and ancient Egypt together into one year. But we soon discovered that this would push us into Greece and Rome much earlier than our boys would be ready for it. So, we decided to repeat both and do them in the space of two years. Last year we looked at the stories of the Old testament and this year we are looking at Ancient Egypt.

I chose Mark Millmore’s book entitled Imagining Egypt to be our spine. I will read from this book regularly and fill in with more fun things as we go along. Using his chapter titles I found places for all my other resources under each heading. I will plan my daily lessons as we go from that basic outline. So our year of study in Ancient Egypt looks like this:


In The Beginning

Create a wall Map of Egypt (done)

A Child's Geography of Egypt with NP




Archeology activity




Color some pages from A Coloring book of Ancient Egypt



Kings and Queens











Pyramids


Make the 3-D pyramid

Put the pyramids on the wall map




Notebook some pages on this topic

Color some coloring pages on this topic




The Temples


Color some coloring pages of the temples



Hieroglyphs


Notebook some pages on the Rosetta stone


Use the Hieroglyphs message maker (comes with Millmore's book)

Do a hieroglyphs treasure hunt for the Egyptian treasure chests

Numbers and Math fun

How to make Papyrus activity


Gods and Goddesses



Make a Gods hierarchy chart





Daily Life




Make Egyptian honey cakes

Play Senet

Do some activities from Ancient Science

Read portions from Time Travelers


Build an Egyptian boat from AEAB pg 32

Fig Cakes AEAB pg 37

Irrigation machine AEAB pg 120



Land of the Dead






The Dynasties

Complete a timeline of ancient Egypt


At the end of the day I read out loud chapter books to the boys. This year there are so many lovely chapter books on Egypt we will be using this eveing time to get in a little bit more history as well as good stories to sleep by. Here is our list of Read alouds pertaining to Egypt.







Next in our day is Math.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, this is an impressive curriculum. I am putting a link to it on one of my posts. Thanks for sharing all your work.

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