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Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Identify Desired Results:

 

What overarching understandings are desired?

The desire is for the students to be able to describe the development of the Ancient Egyptian civilization, and explain how these developments affect us today.

What will students understand as a result of this

unit?

 

The students will be able to understand, design, and defend a web-based proposal of how our current living habits, communication development, and technological & medical advancements are influenced by the Ancient Egyptian Civilization and will speculate how our Western Civilization might hypothetically influence the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are the overarching “essential” questions?

How are we products of our past and how might we affect the future?

 

What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?

Essential questions:

·        How and why do people come up with systems to function in societies?

·         How and why do humans communicate?

·         Are we products of our pasts?

·         How will we affect the future?

·         What are some driving forces behind new inventions and advancements?

·         Are we products of our pasts?

·         How will we affect the future?

Unit questions:

  • How did the Ancient Egyptians meet their basic needs? 
  • How do we meet our basic needs?
  • How are these related?
  • How did Ancient Egyptian communication develop?
  • Why did Ancient Egyptians want to communicate?
  • How does this affect us today?
  • What were some scientific and technological advancements made by Ancient Egyptians?
  • What sparked these inventions?
  • How do these developments affect us today?


 

 

 

 

 

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