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Egyptian Mummy Cases
Here is an activity I'd like to do with my class! They researching the ins and outs of Egyptian culture, hieroglyphs, symbolism, and art, then use what they know to create realistic or stylized Mummy cases. These cases need to include...
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Lesson: Nimble Symbols
Comparative thinking is one way to build critical analysts. Budding artists discuss symbols and how they represent concepts, beliefs, or ideas. They compare the symbols found on an ancient Egyptian mummy case to those found in...
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Personal Mummy Case
Young scholars create a papier mâché mummy case covered with personal symbols from students' lives.
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The Mummy's Tomb: An Ideal Hope Chest Lesson Plan
Students create replicas of Egyptian tombs. In this visual arts lesson, students study the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians regarding the afterlife. Students design small mummy tombs using shoe bows, modelling clay, and embellishments.
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Life After Death
Students explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife by observing and interpreting the design and illustration of a mummy case.
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Solving Mummy Mystery Helps History Come Alive
Students uncover more mysteries of Ancient life. They see how artifacts can reveal much about a complex culture's history and beliefs. They study the long line of ancient Egypt's pharaohs.
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Providing for the Afterlife
Students decide which personal items would be necessary for success and happiness in the afterlife.
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Rebirth and Renewal
Students identify and compare ancient Egyptian and contemporary symbols of rebirth and renewal and use artwork and writing to visually illustrate their opinions.
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Mysteries of the Past-An Artistic Expedition
Students explore expression in artwork. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students travel to ancient Egypt to examine abstract art of the Nile River valley through several hands-on activities.
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Prayers for Paankhenamun
Students find out about key attributes, characteristics, and roles of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses by writing a letter or a poem asking them to welcome an Egyptian to the afterlife.
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Prayers for Paankhenamun
Students use the internet to research one of six Egyptian gods and goddesses of the afterlife. They focus on physical attributes, symbols associated with and the role played by that deity into the afterlife. They write a letter to their...
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Tomb Explorer/Temple Explorer
Fourth graders build an explorer vehicle which they program through an obstacle course to enter the tomb or temple to discover artifacts.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Students research and compare Thebes to their hometown to explain how a city's geography, economy, climate, and culture affect its inhabitants.
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Four Ancient River Civilizations
Students explore how the environment shapes man, how man transformed his world, nd how art became part of the human process. The group is divided into clans and their migratory routes developed in the eight lessons of this unit.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Mummy Case
Examine an Egyptian mummy case and view three accompanying videos to learn how mummies were made, how we know the identity of the man whose remains are in the case, and how the symbols that decorate the case should be interpreted.
BBC
Bbc: The Mummy Maker
An interactive game that allows the students to act as ancient Egyptian embalmers. Requires Flash plug-in.
Other
Live Science: Cold Case Closed: 'Iceman' Mummy Bled to Death
This article examines evidence that Otzi, the 'Iceman' mummy, discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991, most likely bled to death due to being struck by an arrow approximately 5,300 years ago.
Museum of Science
Boston Museum: Eternity Travel: Book Your Afterlife
Plan a safe, speedy trip to the afterlife with this interactive resource. Choose your tomb type, mummification method, and case and also select a number of eternity extras. See if you can plan a safe trip to the afterlife on the money...
American University
American University: Trade & Environment Database: The Iceman
A case study from the Trade Environment Database examines evidence that suggests that the Iceman found in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991 was a trader. It also examines the conflicting claims of Austria and Italy for the body.