Our Study of Ancient Egypt

We are covering Ancient Egypt again, but this time more in depth. We went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum and saw an Egyptian tomb and took pictures of and in it. Inside they explained and showed to us the process of making a mummy. It was pretty neat. While the children were working on projects for their lapbooks, I read out loud to them:

• Croconile by Roy Gerrard


• Hat-Shepsut, His Majesty, Herself by Catherine M. Andronik


• I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert by Eve Bunting


• Who Built the Pyramid by Meredith Hooper


• Ten Little Mummies by Philip Yates


• The Box Car Children, "The Curse of the Mummy"

Some great helps to me were:

The Usborne Traveller Books- Pharaohs and Pyramids- My 11 year old (as of today- Happy Birthday B.) really enjoyed looking through this book and reading all the little captions. Our booklets and pictures for our lapbooks came from History Pockets. Here's a link where you can look at it page by page: http://www.realread.com/pageview/browse.cgi?site=41906611&book=155799904X

I used "Ancient Egypt" for my older ones in the 5th & 6th Grade and for my kindergartner, I used "Ancient Civilizations"- the section on Ancient Egypt.

Here are some good links that I used:

http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm

http://www.guardians.net/egypt/kids/

http://www.kingtutone.com/kids/

To make a cartouche out of your child's name: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cartouche/cartouche.html

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Egyptlife.html

I recieved this book free from www.wowio.com - It had about 130 pages "Ancient Egypt Projects you can do Yourself" Very, very good.

We enjoyed ourselves and will post pics of our lapbooks next week.  Until then...here are some pics and some of the things we did.