Explorations for Sept 25th

Don't for get to fill out your activity review paper.

RECOMMENDED

Lots of Cultural Information

Egypt

Hieroglyphics

Write your name in Hieroglyphics

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta.Stone

Make a mummy

Mummy Maker

Pyramid builder

Lots of games here

Games: Ancient Egypt

Trip to Egypt

Tomb of the unknown mummy

Whole bunch of links on the left

Egyptian Gods


Long Vidoes

Video: Tombs of the Gods

Video: 10 Greatest Discoveries of Ancient Egypt

Video: Ancient Egypt's Buildings

Pyramids

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/destinations/egypt-pyramids-dest

www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/home.html

Explorations for Thursday, Sept 18th

Here are the list of topics. This time I have a sheet I want you to fill out when you are done. I will give you time during the class to work on it.


Mesopotamian Civilizations

The First Empires

Hammurabi

Timeline of Babylon

Lots of Babylon Links

EGYPT

The Nile Valley

Egypt's Old Kingdom

The Egyptian Empire

Ancient Egypt (slideshow)

The Mummy

Egyptian Myths

Ancient Egypt (2 games)

Hieroglyphs

Pyramid Builder (game)

Mummy Maker (game)

7 Ancient Wonders of the World

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/wonders/

topics for Thursday, Sept 11th

Please use these websites to explore some topic related chapter 2 in your history book. You also need to turn in the handout I'm giving you about the websites.

Highly Recommended 

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

short animations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EPqobSsD8  Turning Points in History

Other Topics

Cuneiform
--- http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/literature/
--- http://www.paleoaliens.com/event/babylonian/

City States

--- http://ghn.globalheritagefund.org/?id=1253  Explore the ruins of Ur
--- http://www.ancient.eu/ur/
--- http://www.penn.museum/sites/iraq/?page_id=48

Ziggurat

--- ziggurat informationl
--- http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ziggurats.php

Sargon

--- http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/nemonarchs/g/Sargon.htm
--- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.asp
--- http://www.history4kids.co/2013/02/sargon-conqueror.html

Gilgamesh

---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGhEu9elnA 10 minutes long (see me for headphones)

Utnapishtim

--- http://www.lifepaths360.com/index.php/mesopotamian-heroes-utnapishtim-7365/  Flood story