Ancient+Egyptian+Mummies

  Students will:  ·  understand what mummies are and where they have been found.  ·  examine why the Egyptians wanted the body preserved.  ·  comprehend how the Egyptians prepared a body for mummification.  ·  learn how we learn about ancient cultures by studying mummies.  ·  use the internet to complete a worksheet identifying the steps of mummification. show their knowledge of the Egyptian mummification process by making a cartoon drawing the ten step process. Begin the class by asking students to list any movies they know of or have seen that are about Ancient Egypt, and especially any that have mummies in them. Several examples may include: The Mummy, The Mummies Curse, Abbot & Costello meet the Mummy, Scooby Doo and the Mummies Curse. Start a discussion about why people are so fascinated with mummies. Talk about the horror movie business. The idea of the supernatural, which is associated with Ancient Egypt, attracts a lot of attention. Most children love the idea of seeing a museum with a mummy that might jump out at them. **Elicit Prior Knowledge and Build Background:** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ask students what they know about mummies. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Lead the students into a discussion about what happens to our bodies when we die. Talk about how decomposition of bodies happens. Discuss the biblical concept of “Ashes to Ashes; Dust to Dust”. Begin a discussion about why we try and preserve bodies for funerals. Lead this into an explanation of why Egyptians tried to preserve the bodies of their dead. Ask if they know what biblical character who lived in Egypt was mummified. (Joseph) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1.)  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teach the background on Egyptian religious beliefs (Appendix A) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain the Egyptian beliefs about the soul. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Show pictures of the Ba & Ka (Appendix B) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain the importance of preserving the body for the afterlife. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 2.)  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teach about the preservation of bodies//: // (Appendix A)  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What happens to make organisms decompose? <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How can we make organisms be preserved? <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ideas about how Egyptians preserved the body? <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 3.)  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teach the importance of studying mummies. (Appendix A) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What can we learn from mummies? <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How do we interpret the artifacts that have been found? <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 4.)  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Power point Presentation. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Make Power point showing the steps of mummification. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">  i.   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Decide what information to include <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ii. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Find clip art that will engage age level <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> iii. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Use the 10/20/30 rule when preparing <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Show presentation of the Egyptian Mummy Power point ( Appendix C) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Go over the process for making a mummy. Have students discuss each step as you go over the details carefully. Check for understanding and review vocabulary at any time during and after the power point. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain that tomorrow we will be going to a website that explains this same process. Explain the assignment will be to complete the worksheet using a specific website ( <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|www.neferchichi.com] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">) and using the worksheet to draw a cartoon showing the steps of mummification. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Worksheet to complete using the website: <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|www.neferchichi] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Using wide cashier tape paper, make a cartoon drawing including at least 10 steps used in the mummification process. Include pictures, information and speaking bubbles. ·  PowerPoint Software ·  Access to Egyptian Clipart on the web ·  Wide cashier tape paper for cartoon ·  LCD in focus machine ·  Pictures of Ba & Ka   ·   Worksheets ·  Internet access Appendix A: Egyptian Websites for information Egyptian Religion Sites: <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why are mummies made? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Explain that over the years, scientists have found mummies that were preserved in different ways. Some mummies are formed naturally—in peat bogs or frozen in ice. Others, like the Egyptian and South American mummies, were carefully preserved. How a mummy is preserved and what it’s buried with tells us about the culture or religious beliefs of the people who made it. Egyptians preserved their dead because they felt a person’s body should remain whole in the afterlife. [] [] [] Preservation of Mummies Sites: //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> What are mummies? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain that a mummy is a preserved body of a person or animal. Normally when a person dies, the skin and other soft tissues decay, or break down, leaving only the bones behind. The process of mummification, or mummy-making, includes drying the body very quickly, so decay-causing bacteria can’t grow, and soft tissue and hair remain <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. [] [] l*** [] Learning From Mummies Sites: <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why are mummies important today? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mummies give us important clues about the past. Unfortunately, many ancient mummies have been destroyed and their tombs plundered by grave robbers. But the mummies that do remain offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of ancient peoples, including what they looked like, how they dressed, what they ate and how, religious beliefs, and even the animals they owned. [] [] Appendix B: Ba & Ka Pictures Appendix C: Egyptian Mummification Cartoon Rubric Excel file.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Unit: **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Ancient Egypt
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grade Level **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Sixth Grade
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson Plan **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Egyptian Mummification (Three to Four Day Lesson)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Colorado Social Studies Standards **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">21st Century Skills Covered: #2, #4, #6, and #7 **
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 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Procedure: **
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 * //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How did the ancient Egyptians preserve bodies? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Where did they bury their dead? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why did they make mummies? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Who is the most famous mummy in the world? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Are the Egyptians the only ones who made mummies? //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Conclusion: **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Assessment **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Review students' completed comprehension worksheets to assess their understanding of the reading. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Using rubric, calculate understanding of Mummification Cartoon. (Appendix C) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Assignment: **
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