Ancient Mesopotamia Activities | Stations, Debate, Primary Source Analysis

These interactive Ancient Mesopotamia Activities are the perfect supplement to your textbook or your existing school curriculum about Mesopotamia! This bundle includes several engaging and no-prep activities from our complete Ancient Mesopotamia unit bundle that will excite your students and add some variety to your lesson planning!

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This bundle is a great fit for you if you just want a few Mesopotamia activities, but don't want word walls, slideshows, bell ringer prompts, printable timelines, tests, and the other materials in our full unit bundles.

Included in this bundle are:

Mesopotamia Stations: Life in Sumer

• This resource will take your students through a day in the life in Sumer. Over the course of six creative and thought-provoking stations, students will locate key city-states on a map and identify where would be ideal locations to live, design several buildings using elements of Sumerian architecture, analyze common crops grown in Mesopotamia to make a meal plan, write a journal entry about one role of the social hierarchy, practice writing cuneiform, and solve some clues to learn about the gods of Mesopotamia.

Hammurabi's Code Distance Learning Activity for Google Drive

• This no-prep Hammurabi’s Code Activity promotes critical thinking and discussion, and since it is exclusively for Google Drive, it is easy to use in person or for distance learning! In this activity, students will analyze laws from Hammurabi's Code that fall into 10 key categories in a graphic organizer. Then, you can go over these laws (and more) in an editable Google Slideshow that can promote discussion and debate about whether these laws were fair or not.

Ancient Mesopotamia Invention Date: Mesopotamia Madness

• This resource is the most engaging way to teach about Ancient Mesopotamia inventions! It not only highlights many of the great accomplishments and legacy of the inventions of Mesopotamia, but it will also excite your students, due to the use of March Madness-style brackets. Your students will also have the chance to debate the importance of each invention and evaluate the ways that these early inventions have shaped our society today. This resource is also compatible with Google Drive!

Job Fair for Leaders of Mesopotamia + the Persian Empire

• In this activity, students will analyze the resumes of Hammurabi, Sargon, Cyrus the Great, and Darius the Great to determine who they would like to hire for the positions of a school principal and the U.S. President. Through the process of reading and examining the resumes, this activity will help students better understand the accomplishments of these leaders, as well as give them some guidance about what might be included on a resume and how people make hiring decisions.

Some of the resources in this bundle will go directly to your TpT Purchases folder of your Google Drive account after completing your purchase. If you have any technical issues, reach out to us at mrandmrssocialstudies@gmail.com or contact TPT.

Are you looking for more resources about Mesopotamia? You might like some of these:

• Mesopotamia Unit Activity Bundle (contains all of our Mesopotamia resources)
• Mesopotamia Stations: Life in Sumer
• Mesopotamia Invention Debate (Mesopotamia Madness)
• Hammurabi's Code Distance Learning Activity for Google Drive
• Job Fair for Leaders of Mesopotamia and the Persian Empire (Hammurabi, Sargon, Cyrus the Great, and Darius the Great)
• Mesopotamia Word Wall
• Mesopotamia Vocabulary Worksheet
• Mesopotamia Early Finishers Sheet