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This ancient civilization holds a timeless fascination for us and no student remains untouched by this study of the "Gift of the Nile," as Herodotus called this land. Looking at the unification of upper and lower Egypt sometime around 3100 B.C.E. students have a reproduction of the victory tablet of Narmer right in their own classroom. Many exciting lessons revolve around the scarabs, ankh, papyrus, copy of the Rosetta Stone, and model of a reed boat. Our fascination with the ancient Egyptians endeavor to live forever in the next world is captured with the ceramic model of William, the little blue hippopotamus, from the Middle Kingdom period. Students have a chance to play the game of Senet as Tutankhamon probably did during his short life. Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck, the literature selection for this kit, takes us on a rollicking journey with a clairvoyant, sassy teenage girl as she tries to complete her most unusual Egypt project for her ninth grade history class. |
