Performance Tasks, Projects

1.   Museum Curators Biding to Acquire a Job of Designing a Virtual Museum:  After grouping the students into focus groups, they will become experts in various aspects of Ancient Egypt (daily lives, communication, science/medicine discoveries, and keeping track of time).  They will come up with a design of how they would display these artifacts to portray the Ancient Egyptian Civilization and how they have influenced our civilization. Come together as a whole class to create the final virtual museum proposal for the exhibit.  

2.  Daily Lives:  After researching the Ancient Egyptian Daily Lives via nonfiction picture books, National Geographic articles, textbook information, and several internet sites, the students will write a report, including graphics, in Word on common Ancient Egyptian activities and practices and how those affect or influence the way we do things now.  Put it in a format that will help you with your final project - virtual museum exhibit proposal.

3.  Hieroglyphics:  (1)Research Egyptian communication.  The students must log discoveries on the online discussion board. (2) To empathize with the Egyptian writing process, the students will write a message using hieroglyphics online. The instructions and graphics to use are on the website below. (3) Then the students need to explain the process of how we write today; i.e. left to right, phonic sounds, etc. Compare and contrast the Egyptian writing process with Modern Western civilization.  http://www.neferchichi.com/hieroglyphs.html  Using graphic, write up your discoveries in Word and their relation to our Western civilization of today.  Save these for their end project.

4. Cut it Open! :  Research Egyptian science and medical discoveries.  http://www.touregypt.net/science.htm , http://www.elismorrowsch.com/classroomnews/lp6scien.htm ,  http://www.arabworldbooks.com/articles8.htm , http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/sekhmetnew.html , http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptscience.html , http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/ancientegyptianmedicine.htm , http://puffin.creighton.edu/museums/greiner/   Log in online journal all of your discoveries.  What influence have these discoveries and practices had on our current civilization?  Using the Word, write up a report using graphics for your virtual museum explaining these connections.

5.  Egyptian Math and Calendar:  Using the Egyptian number chart, http://www.dia.org/education/egypt-teachers/mathsci/tanke/numchart.htm ,  the Mayan numbering system, http://www.psinvention.com/zoetic/base20.htm , and the Sumerian culture numbering system, http://www.psinvention.com/zoetic/base60.htm , compare and contrast.  Research the Egyptian calendar: http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag03012001/magf1.htm  and  http://hometown.aol.com/timeemits/webpage/aoa/aegyptc.htm  Compare and contrast with our current calendar and the age of Enoch calendar Gen.5:23.  Propose why and how we use the numbering system and calendar of today (online journal).  What are the similarities and what are the differences. How has the Egyptian calendar and numbering system influenced us today?  Using Word and graphics, write up the discoveries you found and the connections they make to today's practices.  Keep your end project, the virtual museum exhibit proposal, in mind when compiling this data.

6.  Time Capsule:   The students will design a list of current items linked to Ancient Egyptian daily lives and how they are linked. Then they will speculate about future civilizations and what they will have and link from us.  Compile a short list online of what we should put in our time capsule for future civilizations to understand our daily lives and explain why you chose these items. Choose no more than 10.

Quizzes, Texts, Academic Prompts

 

Quiz: The 8 basic elements of a civilization: language, religion, etc.

Quiz on key developments of Ancient Egypt.

Other Evidence

 

1.  Log (online journals):  The students keep a log online, as they investigate, of the various developments in Ancient Egypt that remind them of something current.  Jot down similarities and differences. They also must log in their journals their findings when in their expert groups (for example, medical discoveries-knew the heart was vital but they did not consider the brain.)

2. Pyramid Poem:  The students will develop a pyramid shaped poem using words progressively to show the link to current times. (creative – affective side) The poem must show the links from Ancient Egypt to current Western civilization.  Bonus individual project in the end. 

3.  Background Information:  Before beginning the tasks above, the students will become familiar with the Egyptian time line in History, the Geographic region on a map, and the climate of the area.  This is to establish some background knowledge and get some big picture understanding of Egypt and its place in the world.  Log findings on class discussion board.

Student Self-Assessment

 

1.  Self assess their cooperative learning online rubric

2.  Self assess their hieroglyphic message and online journal accounts.

3. Self assess their museum proposal and their part in it. (Teacher will assess as well)

4.  Self assess their growth or change in perspectives.