Giza Egypt Inquiry Lesson
Ancient Giza Egypt
A World History Lesson Worksheet
An archaeology analysis lesson on the importance of ancient Giza Egypt. Activate student interest before playing Excavate! Egypt or your Ancient Egypt world history classroom studies. Invite students to describe artifacts and hypothesize their use in ancient Egypt. Use describe, interpret, and evaluate (D-I-E) lessons to record archaeology artifact observations during game-play or as a per-lesson activity to check their hypotheses for accuracy. It is a fun way to prepare and engage with content while playing Excavate! Egypt.
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Giza Egypt Lesson Overview
Objective:
Students will describe and infer the significance of Egypt artifacts found in an archaeological site in preparation for playing the Giza site in Excavate! Egypt or your Ancient Egypt lessons.
Duration:
Approximately 30 minutes with a potential follow-up lesson of 20 minutes (after playing the Giza Egypt site of Excavate! Egypt or your standalone activity.
Materials:
This history lesson worksheet PDF document includes:
- Student D-I-E organizer
- Artifact Resource Sheet for the Giza Egypt site
- Teacher answer sheet for the D-I-E organizer
Includes Ancient Egypt lesson for Giza, Alexandria, Karanak and Valley of the Kings
The Egyptian Artifacts
Four Artifacts for Students to Analyze
Ancient Construction Tool
Ptah The Egyptian God of Creation
Ancient Egypt Ink Well
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In this part of the worksheet activity you explain to students that they will be exploring artifacts related to the ancient city of Giza Egpyt. Their first job is to carefully preview the artifacts by describing them in detail.
Step 1: Students look carefully at artifacts on the Artifact Resource Sheet.
Step 2: Students write descriptions of each artifact in the describe column of the Student D-I-E Organizer. Pay close attention that students are only writing descriptions and not explaining what the artifact is and how it is used.
Step 3: Share as a class the descriptions and notice if anyone has found a new detail or something that they initially did not see. Emphasize that spending time on the description step of this process is necessary for seeing all the details that can generate new insight.