Ancient Civilizations Egypt Unit Activities: Digital & Print History Resources

With over 320 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all of the Ancient Egypt lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, & assessments you’ll need to teach like a superhero!!

Like all of our Ancient History bundles, the Ancient Egypt unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no prep history activities, and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.

Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced print subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:

1.⚡ANCIENT EGYPT INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION LESSON SUBFOLDER- 

This lesson is a great introduction and includes a summative activity. Students analyze visuals, primary source excerpts, and map to make predictions about the content they will learn about.

2.⚡ANCIENT EGYPT GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER-

This bundle includes SEVEN geography lesson choices for both student-centered learning and direct instruction. Now it includes a geography quiz!

3.⚡ANCIENT EGYPT VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER- Includes three assignment vocabulary options, review games, and a quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions!

4. ⚡NOTES, READINGS, and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUBFOLDER-

Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content quiz! 

• HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT CLOSE READING SET- This Ancient Egypt close reading set includes an annotation guide, worksheet, and graphic organizer based on the big ideas of social science. Now includes a comprehension quiz and answer key!
• POWERPOINT NOTES, two-page outlinePRINTABLE NOTES</a> with agraphic organizer that can be used interchangeably!
• STUDENT-CENTERED READING STATIONS- Reading stations are organized by key concepts for social science and have a worksheet or folding graphic organizer option.
• ANCIENT EGYPT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK -SNAPSHOT READING WORKSHEET & FOLD ACTIVITY This covers all of the bases for Ancient Egypt and can be done in an interactive notebook format or as a workbook and fun doodle-style project.
  

5. ⚡ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER- Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.

• Hatchepsut Tweets her Followers: A close reading and fun social media post!
• Write Like an Egyptian! Hieroglyphic Common Core Reading and Writing- Students also decipher a message and write their own.
• Ramesses the Great? STUDENTS DECIDE! Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) writing assignment. Students evaluate his achievements and support a claim with evidence.
• Ancient Egyptian Pictograph Analysis Activity- A key concept-based investigation worksheet
• What's Your Destiny?-Close reading and fun comprehension game. Students read and compete in a displayed class game board. Winning students choose a fictitious destiny that is shared with the class!
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Class Read Aloud- Fun class play/read-aloud script with graphic organizer!!!
• Jingle Mingle Fun Review Interactive - Students mingle about the room finding partners. When the music stops, students address essential learning questions together!
• Common Core Primary Source Quote Activities (5 to choose from)
• Common Core Aligned Research Project Packet and Activity (6 ideas and Templates with the SAME rubric!)
• Doodle World History Summary Activity- Fun, creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key "big idea" concepts.
• Student-centered Where in World Scavenger Hunt-fun class geography!
• Me As a Mummy! Students read how pharaohs were mummified and create a life-size mummy!
• How were the Pyramids Built? Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning activity
• Document-Based Questions (DBQ) Activity- Students analyze primary sources and evaluate which Egyptian achievement had the most long-lasting impact!
• Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Resource Pack
• What Was in King Tut's Tomb? Students identify and analyze objects in King Tut's tomb!
• Who Am I? A Day in the Life of An Egyptian This engaging Ancient Egypt history lesson has students investigate what it would be like to live in Ancient Egypt and play a guessing game!
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6.⚡1.DAILY SKILL BASED TEXT ANALYSIS WARM-UPS/ BELLRINGERS</a>– Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.

2.Exit Tickets- Over 40 formats from which to choose! Students support a claim with evidence, write what they learned or formulate content questions! This is a great informal daily summary.

7.⚡BIG IDEAS- KEY CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBFOLDER -

Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks!  Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Writing Guides, Linking the Big Ideas Analysis Activity, Key Concept Storyboard, Key Concepts Foldable Mini-Packet of Resources and a Key Concepts Field Report Summary Activity.

8. ⚡STUDY GUIDES, KEY CONCEPT REVIEW, & TEST SUBFOLDER- Each unit comes with a study guide that has students pre-read and define important vocabulary and make meaning of text excerpts that they will also see on the skill-based test! This helps reduce test anxiety while accomplishing the same skill-based reading comprehension goal. Check out the multiple-choice editable Common Core test. Students read excerpts and support claims with evidence!

This Ancient Civilizations activities bundle is printable and student-centered. Students will explore and review the big idea six key concepts (GRAPES). Plus, all of our curriculum units have embedded student accountability with assessments at each step, so progress is data-driven.

If you aren’t familiar, the GRAPES key concepts include:

• G= Geography
• R= Religion
• A= Achievements
• P= Politics/Government/Leadership
• E= Economy
• S= Social Classes

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