Personal Hieroglyphs

This is an excellent multidisciplinary lesson designed by Scientific American. It provides three creative activities--designing a garden, studying hieroglyphics, and writing poetry--relevant to the ancient peoples of the Middle East....

Pupils complete a series of activities to discover life in ancient Egypt. They create want ads for pyramid workers, design vocabulary flash cards and dictionaries, and research famous Egyptians. They also research the "Curse of the...

In this National Handwriting Day learning exercise, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking...

Fourth graders recognize the difference between ditigal and analog clocks. They experience reading legends and following wirtten directions. Students observe digital time and analog time written on index cards. They observe accurate...

Students identify animals, and their manifestations as gods, and articulate the role they played in the transition into the afterlife.

Students, in groups, study the different writing systems from 3000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.