Land of the Pharaohs
Thematic Unit on Ancient Egypt

For the 1999-2000 school year, the 7^th grade at Murphy Middle School has selected to use the theme, "The Land of the Pharaohs". The team will present Egyptian units throughout the year on selected topics such as: Mummification, Pyramids, Hieroglyphics, ancient Egyptian civilizations, and modern day Egypt. Each of the 7^th grade homebases will have Egyptian names and will be involved in many Egyptian related intramural competitions.

All areas of the curriculum will be involved, including Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Writing, Chorus, Computer Skills and P.E. All lessons and activities across the curriculum will comply with the goals and objectives in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Unit Lessons, Activities and Resources

Satellite View of Egypt (updated every 3 hours) - http://www.guardians.net/egypt/satelite.htm

Lots of neat stuff (link to Egypt on the web, Egypt chat, current news from Egypt, etc) -
http://guardians.net/egypt/index.html

Lots of Egyptian Links - http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/YOUTH_RESOURCES.HTML

Egyptian Reading list for all grades - http://members.aol.com/neferkiki/books.html

List of Egyptian lesson plans - http://members.aol.com/neferkiki/lessons.html

List of Hieroglyphics characters - http://members.aol.com/neferkiki/hiero.html

Easy to read Mummy selection (nice graphics) - http://members.aol.com/mumifyddog/index.html

Fantastic collection of Egyptian clip art and hieroglyphics (can be downloaded) -
http://members.aol.com/chichi/index.html

List of Teacher Links for Egypt - http://members.aol.com/neferkiki/teachers.html

List of Egyptian Resources - http://www.connectingstudents.com/themes/egypt.htm

Milmore’s Ancient Egypt - http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/ancient/egypt.htm

Mr. Pitonya’s Pyramid Puzzle (bid on construction cost for pyramid) - http://www.wcvt.com/~tiggr/