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Egyptian mythology: Egyptian gods and goddesses

October 29, 2013 Ticia 13 Comments

learning about Egyptian mythology

One of the problems with Egyptian mythology is a dearth of good materials for elementary.  Mainly because Egyptian mythology is seriously twisted.  I mean, seriously.  Most of the myths are not appropriate for young kids.

My quest: find a good Egyptian mythology source

So, I set out on my quest for Egyptian mythology.

Egyptian clip art

First I needed a good site for clip art of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, and happened upon Neferchichi’s Tomb, they’ve got a great collection of information on the major gods and goddesses and many of the “minor” gods and goddesses.

Clip art: check

Now information about the Egyptian mythology, specifically the pantheon: Egyptian gods and goddesses

info: check

 

Preparing an Egyptian mythology lesson

So, I can’t share my printable with you, because as I read the site’s TOS, I can use the clip art for personal use, but to share it I’d have to buy the CD, which I’m not ready to at this time.  I’m still toying with buying it.  Instead, I’ll share a bit about how I made it.

Egyptian gods and goddesses table

My table had 5 columns for the desired information.  The pictures of the gods or goddesses to identify, and then 4 columns for them to answer.  I didn’t really do any formatting beyond that, because it was a quick project, not one I’m being a perfectionist about.

Egyptian mythology gods and goddesses info

Then I printed out ALL of the Egyptian gods and goddesses and bound it using my handy dandy binding machine.

 

Group project: Egyptian mythology

advantages of multi age group work

I knew this project by itself would be way too hard for my kids.

  1. There are over 50 Egyptian gods and goddesses in the book I made, they only needed to find 12.
  2. The picture were not exactly the same, sometimes colors were different.
  3. Two of the pictures were completely different in the book from the worksheet.

So, we paired up younger and older kids to work together, which worked out great.  The older kids had to stop and explain what they were doing, and the younger kids learned some valuable skills from the older kids

If this was just older kids working on the project, I would have done this as a web search, and had the kids find it all online, but given the age ranges AND number of kids, that wasn’t feasible.

Egyptian mythology worksheet

I’d say this project was a big hit.  My Egyptian mythology gods and goddesses book was also helpful in our Egyptian mythology reports they did for co-op (if I get it done on time, that’s tomorrow’s post, I’m also creating 2 Halloween costumes, and packing for a vacation, so that may not happen).

 

For more Ancient Egyptian ideas:

King Tut’s tomb frieze

How to mummify a chicken

Make a Senet board game

The original chicken mummy

 

I’ll be linking up to:
All Things Beautiful

Trivium Tuesday

history ancient Egypt, ancient history, Mystery of History 1

Comments

  1. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    October 29, 2013 at 10:09 am

    This is great. It is just enough, without being too much for kids my student’s ages.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      October 30, 2013 at 9:36 am

      It was a little much for my kids at times, but your guys are just enough older.

  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    October 29, 2013 at 5:28 pm

    Looks like a great unit!

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    • Ticia says

      October 30, 2013 at 9:38 am

      Thanks! I’ve been really enjoying our Egypt studies this year.

  3. Joy says

    October 29, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    I am loving all of your Egypt studies. I think we may have to go back to this soon! 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      October 30, 2013 at 9:39 am

      That’s what I was thinking as I saw everyone else sharing their ancient history stuff, and pretty much any period of history I’m not studying right now.

  4. Natalie says

    October 30, 2013 at 11:48 am

    How fun! I highly recommend Tales of Gods and Pharaohs by Marcia Williams as the absolutely best book to introduce kids to Egyptian Mythology. We read many of her other books, but I think this is her best. By the way, Maat is not a Goddess, but as a fellow Rick Riordan reader I know you know that. I guess whoever wrote it meant Isis 🙂

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    • Ticia says

      October 31, 2013 at 10:20 am

      I’ll see if I can pick that up. It sounds like a good one.

      So Maat……. She’s not a goddess, but this site treated her as one. The symbol they used was definitely for Maat, so I guess she’s got her own symbol that looks rather like a person, actually there was two different ones depending on which page I was on.

  5. Almost Unschoolers says

    October 30, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    Very interesting! The only Egyptian mythology we’ve studied has always been in connection to Exodus.

    Reply
  6. Claire says

    November 1, 2013 at 3:13 am

    Brilliant Ticia!

    Reply
  7. Amy says

    November 4, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    Kudos! We did Egypt last year and I didn’t even think to study mythology =) Thanks for sharing these resources! I’m going to check out the clip art one, because I remember looking for ancient Egypt clip art and not finding what I wanted…

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      November 8, 2013 at 10:05 pm

      It was a lucky Google search fine. I have to admit part of why we studied Egyptian mythology is because I’m a sucker for their mythology ever since my report in college.

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