{"id":300090,"date":"2010-02-09T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2382"},"modified":"2010-02-09T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:52:46","slug":"teaching-ancient-civilizations-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-mummies-pyramids-and-pharaohs-a-book-about-ancient-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/300090","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Ancient Civilizations with Children\u2019s Literature: Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mummies-Pyramids-Pharaohs-About-Ancient\/dp\/0316309281\" title=\"Mummies, Pyramids and Pharaoh's\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/mummies.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mummies.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mummies-Pyramids-Pharaohs-About-Ancient\/dp\/0316309281\" title=\"book link\">Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egypt<\/a> was written by Gail Gibbons and illustrated by Saho Fujii.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;One of the world&#8217;s oldest continuous civilizations began about five thousand years ago, in the land of Egypt.&#8221;\u00a0 The book gives an great overview of how and where\u00a0ancient Egyptian&#8217;s lived, what jobs they held, how they celebrated different occasions, what their houses looked like, their medical\u00a0&amp; magic healing powers.\u00a0 Communication and story telling through picture writing, known as hieroglyphs, was a\u00a0very important part of ancient Egyptians life.\u00a0 &#8220;People called scribes spent up to ten years to learn the hundreds of hieroglyph symbols.&#8221;\u00a0 Ancient Egyptians were ruled by kings, known as pharaohs.\u00a0 Pharaohs were burried in pyramids along with their family and slaves.\u00a0\u00a0 Today people can go and visit pyramids as well as museums around the world and view some of the ancient Egyptian art from that era.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Curriculum Connections<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This would be a great book to start off or use to support a lesson on ancient Egypt.\u00a0 The illustration in the book is great and can be used as a quick reference for life during ancient Egypt.\u00a0 The photos can be used for\u00a0early\u00a0readers.\u00a0\u00a0The life style, architecture and location are described in detail for early learners (SOL 2.1 and 2.4a).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Additional Resources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/egypt.mrdonn.org\/\" title=\"ancient Egypt for kids\">Ancient Egypt for Kids<\/a>&#8211; Great additional support for students. Photos to support the instruction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/egypt.mrdonn.org\/lessonplans.html\" title=\"Lesson plans and classroom activites\">Ancient Egypt for Teachers<\/a>-Lesson plans and classroom activites.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk\/Homework\/egypt\/activities.htm\" title=\"Activities\">Ancient Egyptian Interactive Activities<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0Hands on activites for content support such as: Pharaoh&#8217;s Death Mask, learn how to make a mummy &amp; build a pyramid.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quizland.com\/hiero.htm\" title=\"hieroglyphics\">Hieroglyphics<\/a>&#8211; Translate any English word into Hieroglphics! Fun classroom activity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Book: Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egypt<br \/>\nAuthor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailgibbons.com\/\" title=\"Gail Gibbons\">Gail Gibbons<\/a><br \/>\nIllustrator: Saho Fujii<br \/>\nPublisher: Little Brown and Company<br \/>\nPublication Date: 2004<br \/>\nPages: 30<br \/>\nGrade Range: 2-5<br \/>\nISBN: 0316309281<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egypt was written by Gail Gibbons and illustrated by Saho Fujii.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;One of the world&#8217;s oldest continuous civilizations began about five thousand years ago, in the land of Egypt.&#8221;\u00a0 The book gives an great overview of how and where\u00a0ancient Egyptian&#8217;s lived, what jobs they held, how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}