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Egyptian Medicine

Egyptian Astronomy

Engineering Strand

Egyptian Pyramids

Assignment Directions

Part 1: Choose a topic

Assignment Overview

Students will examine innovations from Mesopotamia or Ancient Egypt and their impact on their ancient society as well as our world today.

Assignment Objectives

Student historians will…

discover how innovations meet personal and community needs.

Instructions

You will be choosing a topic to research more about. Examine the "Topics to Consider" below.

Topics To Consider

Topics to Consider

Innovations from Mesopotamia	Innovations from Ancient Egypt
Cuneiform writing from Mesopotamia Cuneiform Meso Writing	Hieroglyphic writing from Egypt Hieroglyphics Samples of Hieroglyphs
Irrigation Farming Tools—Plow, Chain Pump Farming	Pyramids Egyptian Pyramids
Wheel	Egyptian Instruments
Ziggurats	Egyptian Medicine
	Mummification Egyptian Mummies
	Egyptian Hair Dye Egypt Hairstyles
	Egyptian Makeup Egypt Makeup types
	Papyrus
	Egyptian Astronomy
	Egyptian Art Ancient Egypt Art

Tools/Technology Strand

Bronze Casting

Irrigation

Assignment

Instructions

Now that you have learned A LOT about your innovation, you are going to be writing a news story about them. You can do this in a variety of ways. You could write an informational news story about your innovation. You could make up a fictitious story about the made-up ancient characters that invented your innovation and act it out.

If you love making videos, create a studio video, we video, or any type of video that you can create at home. Be a television reporter and tell us all about your innovation.

If videos aren't your thing, write an article like you would see in a newspaper or a magazine. You can use any format that works for you to do this.

Whatever you choose, just be sure you show us what you've learned about your innovation. Your project must include the Who, Where, When, What, How, Why, and How questions from the note taking assignment.