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Tag: ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt activities for kids
In case you can’t tell ancient history is one of my favorite time periods for history lessons. I find the ideas and activities you can do with this time fascinating, the history, the people, the mythology. My bookshelves quite agree from the numerous books gracing them. Ancient Egypt is one of my favorites, I find…
Challenge your kids to make a shaduf
I’m about to do something controversial. Are you ready? When teaching ancient history for our history lessons a few years ago, I put the invention of the shaduf with Ancient Mesopotamia rather than Ancient Egypt. But Ticia, isn’t the cradle of civilization in ancient Egypt, not Mesopotamia? See, here’s the thing, it’s an argument. I’ve…
Science Sunday: Chicken Mummy
I want to start off by thanking everyone for all the kind comments last week. October has been a rather crazy month, and I’ve been super stressed with all that’s been going on, so your comments were very much appreciated. The completion of the Chicken Mummy! Yes that does need boldness and hyperbole, because…
Egyptian mythology: Egyptian gods and goddesses
One of the problems with Egyptian mythology is a dearth of good materials for elementary history lessons. Mainly because Egyptian mythology is seriously twisted. I mean, seriously. Most of the myths are not appropriate for young kids so when teaching our Egypt Unit I had to be a bit selective. Hi, this is Future Ticia…
Art History project: King Tut’s Tomb
I have been having a blast going through ancient Egypt history, and I’m loving all of the projects we’ve done so far, but I think by far our King Tut tomb frieze was my favorite history lesson this time around. For whatever reason I find Egyptian wall friezes and the artwork in their temples to…