Teacher's tips

Level of Education: Elementary School

Subject: History

Theme: Ancient Egypt

Age: 07 to 10 years old

What are hieroglyphs? Who was Cleopatra? What was the name of the Sun God? These pieces of information, along with others about Ancient Egypt culture, are present in this memory game. Each time the student forms a pair, they will read important information about this civilization. [FIM-DICA]

Learner outcomes

To know some cultural aspects of Egypt;

To develop reading comprehension;

To study the importance of pharaohs for Egypt and what they represented for their people;

To know the religion and habits of Egyptians. Also, learn the importance of the divinities for the population;

Reinforce the content discussed during the classes;

To develop attention, concentration, and logical thinking;

To develop self-assurance when solving problems;

To promote the discussion of other cultures;

To know the personalities of Ancient Egypt's history.

Teachers' goals

To offer the game as a didactic resource to explore the content discussed in the classroom;

To work with Ancient Egypt-related topics, such as gods, papyrus, mummies, pyramids, Sphinx, Nile River, Pharaohs, and Hieroglyphs, among others;

To widen students' knowledge about the Ancient Egypt Civilization;

To offer the game as a didactic resource to explore the content discussed in the classroom;

To work with motor skills, focusing skills, and logical thinking;

To show students different cultures;

To enable the students to observe how society was organized.

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

(Approach 1) Students can play the game individually or in teams. Each time they form a pair with the cards and read the small text, ask students to write the main words in topics on their notebooks, which will help them with their reading comprehension.

Example:

• Nile River

• Holy River

• Agriculture

• Transportation

• Irrigation

• Electric power

Then, students must write a small text about the NILE RIVER with their ideas.

(Approach 2) Elaborate a project about which aspects students should learn in different steps and activities about Ancient Egypt.

• To learn how to locate Egypt on the Globe;

• Understanding the Nile River was crucial for the Egyptians' survival;

• To observe how life around the Nile was;

• To learn about the pharaohs, what they used to wear (clothes, jewelry, wigs), and their importance for the Egyptians;

• To see the type of clothes they used to wear;

• To see what Egyptian women used to wear, and about their personalities;

• To discuss how the they built the pyramids;

• To talk about the pyramids' location;

• To learn what mummification is and why they did it;

• To see the hieroglyphs and understand them.

(Approach 3) Organize a play about Egypt.

(Approach 4) Paint the kids' faces to portray how Egyptians used to wear makeup.

(Approach 5) Watch the video "ANCIENT EGYPT: The Pharaoh civilization.” Available in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Tbv7anqXk

(Approach 6) Work with Geography teachers on an interdisciplinary project to represent the Ancient Egypt region in maps.

(Approach 7) Promote an interdisciplinary project with the Science and

Geography teachers to build a representation of how the irrigation and agricultural

system worked in Ancient Egypt.

→ (Approach 8) Ask students to build stories in comics about Ancient Egypt;

→ (Approach 9) Elaborate a mural with hieroglyph drawings (students can use their

creativity and invent their own).

→ (Approach 10) Watch the video “The Ancient Egypt - 5 things you should know -

History for kids”. Then ask students to write a small text about it and illustrate it.

Available in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3C6szgcIY

More about the content

Use the following website as a guide about the theme:

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/the-egyptian-pyramids

• Extra video: “How did they build the Great Pyramid of Giza? - Soraya Field Fiorio" |TED-Ed

Available in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBlEPOj4Fk

• Website with 25 facts about Egypt

Available in: https://www.swedishnomad.com/facts-about-ancient-egypt/