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Ancient Egypt
Everyone studies Egypt. Nobody studies the same Egypt.
2 weeks
The same topic, four ways
Pre-K to Grade 2
Pyramids, cats and hieroglyphs — draw your name in picture writing.
🌍 Social Studies✏️ Writing
Grades 3 to 5
Why a civilisation grows beside a river, and what the Nile flood did.
🌍 Social Studies📚 Reading🔬 Science
Grades 6 to 8
Power, taxation and who actually built the pyramids.
🌍 Social Studies📚 Reading✏️ Writing
Grades 9 to 10
Sources and bias: what we know from tombs versus what we assume.
🌍 Social Studies📚 Reading✏️ Writing
Build it together: Build a pyramid
What you need
- sugar cubes, blocks or folded paper
- a base board
- glue or tape
Steps
- Decide the base size together. The youngest counts the blocks.
- Work out how many blocks each layer needs, and why it shrinks.
- Build it. Somebody will make it lean; that is part of it.
- Each person writes one sentence about what surprised them.
Read aloud to everyone
Any picture book about the Nile — the youngest picks it.