Ancient Egypt Unit
For our Ancient Egypt Unit, we used the resources reviewed in the video below (as well as a few other flops). Below the video, I’ll talk about additional resources and experiences, post photos, and add links to everything so you can easily add them to your unit study if you’d like!
Our Unit Study:
We started the unit study by listening to Story of the World from the beginning and talking about archeology. I like this spine because it gives an amazing overview of ancient history and covers topics we are not going to do an in-depth unit on. We just listen in the car or while playing lego.
Every morning in our morning basket we do either a poem like those from Modern Rhymes for Ancient times: Ancient Egypt, artist study, or review one of the incredible pictures in “The Stuff They Left Behind: Ancient Egypt” from Simply Charlotte Mason. We leave the artwork displayed on our magnet board in the dining room to review and talk about throughout the week.
Finally, I give my oldest son a reading assignment from the Encyclopedia of the Ancient world to give him some more in-depth information for the subtopics we cover.
Some of the subtopics we covered (not in order because I don’t remember the order) were:
Ancient Egyptian Mythology (Scarab craft)
Pyramids (Sugar Cube Pyramid craft)
Mummies and Burial rituals ( Mummy Match Game)
North and South Kingdoms of Old Egypt (Pharoah crown- Not pictured)
The Nile (Bill and Peet of the Nile book and map work)
Queen Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhennatan (A discussion on Egyptian religion and politics with the oldest)
King Tut and the discovery of his tomb (King tut art project and book)
Ancient writing (papyrus and cartouche craft)
Rosetta Stone (Stamp work and Heiroglphics book)
While the boys are working on the craft for the day or doing coloring or map work I would read aloud to them. A chapter from the Boy of the Pyramids, the Treasury of Egyptian Mythology, the Egypt Letter from Letters from Afar, or other topical books.
We also watched documentaries on Egypt. There are not any I would RAVE about but this series seemed to hold their attention and show them some of the monuments and artifacts we were talking about as well as give a good overview of the history of ancient Egypt. It’s called “The Story of Egypt” on Amazon Prime. I actually think this was one of the great source materials for my middle child who is primarily a visual learner.
Photos of the fun in action:
If you like the woodcrafts pictured you can get them here for a limited time, I’ve also included two sheets of papyrus so you don’t need to spend $15-$20 for more sheets than you need but they can still get a feel for what papyrus felt like and have a place to practice their hieroglyphics before writing them on their cartouche necklace.
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