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It seems that Gerrick's Ancient Egypt project is drawing to a close. He's working on a book now (gluing and taping pictures into a composition book) and we're still mummifying our apple, but otherwise, I think we're done. Here is a list of his favorite resources.
We checked out a lot of books, but these are the ones he went back to again and again:
If I Were a Kid in Ancient Egypt
Egypt in Spectacular Cross-Section
Mummy (DK/Google)
Egyptian Mummies (Fast Forward)
Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharoahs: A Book About Ancient Egypt
Mummies Made in Egypt
The Nile River (Rookie Read-About Geography)
We're Sailing Down the Nile
Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile (FYI, the author incorrectly identifies a coffin as a sarcophagus in this story.)
Pyramids!: 50 Hands on Activities to Experience Ancient Egypt
Egyptians (Craft Topics)
The Moses Basket
Rabbit Ears Classic Bible Stories Audio Book: Moses in Egypt
Things we bought:
(For a couple of weeks he pretended that an area under a table in our house was a tomb. He decorated it with these things. Later he sorted & displayed his favorites on his magnetic project board. He's currently transferring most of them into his own book about Egypt.)
Ancient Egyptian Costumes paper dolls
Ancient Egyptian Art: 24 Cards
Top Trumps--Ancient Egypt
Printables:
World Map
Africa Map
Make Your Own Cartouche
Counting by 1's up to 100 Mummy Maze
Heiroglyphics
Miscellaneous Images
Online Games & Other Interesting Links:
Make a Mummy (Thanks Stephanie!)
Senet
King Tut's Tomb
Good Short Online Videos:
Egyptian Mummies
The Gift of the Nile
Other Videos & Movies he really liked:
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient Egypt
Egypt: Engineering an Empire (Netflix Instant View)
The Ten Commandments (G)
The Prince of Egypt (PG)
The Mummy (PG-13)
The Mummy Returns (PG-13)
Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy (Netflix Instant View)
We didn't use these, but they look interesting, so we may refer to them at a later date.
Egyptian Fonts
Egyptian Mad Libs
Chicken Mummy (Thanks Alycia!)
Ancient Egypt Toob
Playmobil has a new Egyptian line of toys.
If you're new to this blog and are looking for inspiration for your own study, I hope you will also see my posts Making a Mummy, Reed Boats, and Pyramid Play.
3/10/09 Update: Here's a glance at his Egypt notebook.
I'm glad that he enjoyed learning about egypt! Did he have a good birthday?
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for the very informational post! I see Egypt in our near future!
ReplyDeletePlease tell him that I'm late in mailing out a small package to him. It went out today...we have all had some kind of coughing our heads off thing this past week. BLECH.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job with the unit. We've read SOTW once, but I'm really thinking about re-doing it with more activities...I really like how hands on your Egyptian unit was.
ReplyDeleteVery cool project! Awesome list of resources! Thanks for sharing along the way!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this list it looks like it has some great resources that we could incorporate!
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