Welcome to Ancient Egypt 6th Grade Social Studies

Course: 87T01 – Virtual Field TripCarol LaBella

NYCAL01@aol.com

Itinerary• Passport and Ticket *• Timeline *• Map * - Geography• Nile River• Overview - Tour of Egypt• Mummies• Tombs – Pharaohs • Pyramids• Hierogryphics

*(included in your package)

Facts , pictures and short video of Egypt – use your notebooks to write down 3 basic facts from video and information – Click on Passport

Click here for packing supplies

Timeline

Click on the picture to the right

Using the timeline complete the Timeline in your package(double click on blue line

Where is Egypt?

Take out your completed map of Egypt

Physical Geography affected the growth of Ancient Egypt

Physical Geography affects the growth of Ancient Civilization

Importance of the Nile River

• Click on picture of People in the Nile River http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/

freshwater-waterscapes/#/freshwater-waterscapes-9_33432_600x450.jpg

Click on Title

Destination: Egypt

Fasten your seatbelts! Click on the picture to the right for takeoff to Egypt!

Egyptian Mummies

Click on the picture of the mummy to the right. In your notebooks write 3 – 5 facts from the article

Egyptian Tombs

Times Square Museum – King Tut Exhibit – now closed – click below for video and pictures from Museum

Short video overview on Egyptian Tombs – Write 3 – 5 facts you learn from this video – click above

Pyramids of Ancient Egypt Tour

Click on

picture

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing

Click on picture above

What does the word hieroglyph mean?Hieroglyphs is made from two Greek words: hieros meaning holy glyphe meaning writing So hieroglyph means holy writing.

Rosetta Stone click on picture for more information

Citations• Citations•  1. Mr. Donn Ancient Egypt; http://egypt.mrdonn.org/2. Ancient Egypt Book; Eyewitness Books & Clip Art CD. 2/2008. Ancient Egypt. United States: DK Publishing, 2008. Numerous.

Print.3. Time line: "Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for Kids." Web. 17 Aug 2011.

<http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/access/egypt/timeline_egypt.htm>.4. Gift of the Nile http://egypt.mrdonn.org/geography.html5. Maps: (www.egyptweb.norfolk.gov.uk); "Ancient Eqypt Map." Edhelper.com. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <edhelper.com/ancient egypt>.6. Photo; Nile River: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/freshwater-waterscapes/#/freshwater-

waterscapes-9_33432_600x450.jpg "Importanace of Nile River." Ancient Eqypt for Kids. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <http://egypt.mrdonn.org/geography.html>.

7. "Anicent Egypt." Woodlands School-Ancient Egypt. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/mummies.htm>.

8. National Geographic9. "Destination: Egypt." National Geographic. Web. 17 Aug 2011.

<http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/egypt/egypt-overview-dest.html>.10. "Tombs of Ancient Egypt." National Geographic. Web. 17 Aug 2011.

<http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/egypt/tombs-of-ancient-egypt.html>.11. Egypt - Pyramids." National Geographic. Web. 17 Aug 2011.

<http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/egypt/egypt-pyramids-dest.html>.12. "Discovery Education." Ancient Egypt. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <C:\Users\user\Documents\VFT\

Africa_s_Nile_River__the_Equator__and_the_Kalahari_Desert__.asf>. 1. (I am a member through my school of this site)

13.  14. Ancient Egypt." Web. 17 Aug 2011. <http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/rosetta.htm>.15. "King Tut video." Times Square Discovery Museum. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <http://www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/kingtut>. Word

Documents – attached – made by Carol Fischer LaBellaClip art from Microsoft Word and Eyewitness Book listed above (Clip art CD was included in purchase).