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Ancient River Valley Civilizations

Here is a website that covers each River Valley Civilization This website has a listing of many useful websites for each River valley Civilization

Ancient Writing **Task 1:** Not everyone ion ancient civilizations were able to become scribes (writers). In fact, becoming a scribe was a way to move up in the social hierarchy of the civilization. Some writing systems used symbols for letters that could be combined to form words. Others had symbols for specific words. Using inspiration from the writing systems of the ancient civilizations linked above, create a writing system of your own.

1) Write out your letters/symbols or words/symbols. 2) Create a message written in your new language. Your message should reflect daily life in ancient civilizations.

=Mesopotamia=

Brain Pop: Sumerians

News Article: What Happened to Sumerian Language?

A very cool Mesopotamia Song

Mesopotamia Webquest

British Museum Site about Mesopotamia

A clip featuring Cuneiform

A Ziggurat Activity

Hammarabi's Code in 3 mins

Learn about Hammurabi's Code

Read the entire Hammurabi's Code

Debate Sheet for Hammurabi's Code Activity

=Indus Valley Civilization=

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Indus Valley Interactive Website

Indus Valley Life

Indus Valley Acievements

Explore the Indus Valley Civilization

Animated tour of Mojhenjo-Daro

History For Kids: The Harrapans

National Geographic: Mohenjo-Daro

Photographs of Mohenjo-Daro

[|Video Clip]about Ancient India's Contribution in Math Video Clip about Ancient India's Irrigation System Video Clip about Ancient India's contribution to cotton and textiles

Video outlining the Indus Valley

=Ancient China=

Shang Dynasty
Video Clip (Pt 1) of the Shang Dynasty's Bronze Age Video Clip(Pt 2)

Zhou Dynasty
Excavation of the Zhou Dynasty More artifacts from Zhou Dynasty excavation

Qin Dynasty
Video Clip about the Qin Dynasty Video Clip Part 1 Video Clip Part 2 about Qin Dynasty

=Ancient Egypt=

Crash Course:
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= Webquest =

All About Egypt
Mr. Donn has many topics on Egypt! The British Museum site on Egyptthat includes: Egyption life, gods, goddesses, geography, mummification, pharoahs, pyramids, temples, time, trades, and writing. The wonders of Ancient Egypt All about Egypt Discovering Ancient Egypt Egyption History

Pharoahs
King Tut, Pharohs, Gods, Oh My! (Temples, Pyramids, Queens and mummies, too!) [] []

Mummies
Do you know how people were mummified? Try it here. Mummification and the afterlife [] [] [] []

Pyramids
[] [|Nova] explore the pyramids []

Writing
Hieroglyphics [] [] [] [] []

Daily Life
[] lots of sublinks [] []

Clothing
A visual reprentation of clothing [] [] [] []

Sports and Games
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Social Classes
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Gods and Goddesses
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Sacred Animals
[] [] [] [|http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animals.html#.Up9LtGRDsoo] [] [] [] []

Day 1
Watch the two BrainPop videos linked below. Take the quizzes for each video, print them out, and turn them in at the end of class.

Brain Pop: Mummies

Brain Pop: Egyptian Pharoahs

Newspaper Templates:


__When you open the template that you want, go to:__ Choose **6th Grade Save**. Choose **Miller Folder**. Choose **Your Core**. Name it with your first **LastNameFirstInitial_Newspaper** (ex: MillerJ_newspaper). Type over the jibberish in the template to create your newspaper. When you are finished, **SAVE**.
 * File**, and select "**Save As**".

When you are done:
Game: Egyptian Tomb Adventure Game: The Three Pyramids

A full video about the birth of ancient cities

=Kahoot Review=