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| Intro: Egypt Studies ,Art & Interaction | Links to Egypt sites to explore for Notes and Graphics PBS is very rich for Ancient Civilizations- Here's two links we explored NOVA-The Egypt Experience http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/ Land of the Nile- Past and Present http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/millennium/countries/egypt.html Some students love this mummy site Virtual Mummy http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/imdm/idv/forschung/mumie/filme.en.html http://www.eyelid.co.uk/ Another excellent site in England, where they are VERY interested in Ancient Egypt.... for interesting hieroglyphic "translating" try http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiromenu.htm British Museum Link of Evaluation Activity- Lesson #4 http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html Each of the 10 subject areas has excellent summary information as text, a Story that brings an aspect of Egypt alive (text), and Exploration of the topic (interactive), and a Challenge which usually involves the student doing role playing while solving a problem. ** DEFINITELY click on "Staff Room where you get lots of detail assistance, including advice on classroom setup, worksheets, etc. Extensions- The PBS Egypt Experience site is part of a larger empires site, and can be very useful to return to as a way to do comparisons..... as in the Scroll item where students had to Compare something in Egypt with another civilization. (We were looking at Mesopotamia and the Hebrews specifically) The Mesopotamia site for children at the British Museum is formatted like the Egypt site.... I will certainly use both next year. http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html TO FURTHER EXPLORE the wealth of offerings at this museum, go to the education portion and use the pulldown menu to select your choices of cultures and civilizations..... then click on weblinks to see if they have the specific "for children" activities done yet. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/education/index.html One very cool link is to "The Virtual Ice Age" http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/virtuallytheiceage/ |
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