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Today we’ve got a few goodies lined up for you! Here’s a list of online resources and activities you can use for fun enrichment on home days (when you’re up for that), research options, or general E&E related to our history this trimester. These are completely optional, of course, and only a sampling of all that the internet holds. We’ve really just done some of the work for you, so you don’t have to wade through search engine results! We’ve focused mostly on Egypt, but feel free to share your own online discoveries for anything related to ancient history in the comments section below…
Good research/informational sites:
- The Virtual Egyptian Museum
- Discovering Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egypt (The British Museum)
- PBS – Explore Ancient Egypt
- A guide (one of many!) to Egyptian gods and goddesses
- Egyptian hat and hair styles
- Great photo of the Nile River that shows how green it is near the river, compared to the surrounding desert
- More interesting photos of the Nile River
- Cool photo of the Valley of the Kings, and more photos here
- Photos and info about the Rosetta Stone
Games and activities:
- List of Ancient Chinese games
- Embalm your own Egyptian Mummy online (fun!)
- Pyramid challenge – Complete the construction of the pharaoh's tomb
- Printable Egyptian word search
- Egyptian Mad Libs
- Ancient Egyptian coloring pages
- Ancient Egypt for Kids activities
- Print and play the egyptian games Seega and Mehen
- Great list of Ancient Egyptian games and iPhone apps
- Beautiful online version of selected Aesop's Fables
Crafts and other things to make:
- Construct a pyramid box
- Egyptian man paper doll
- Egyptian woman paper doll
- How to draw King Tut
- How to make your own paper
- Make mud bricks (Clicking “download activity” will require you to register, but the instructions are listed right there on the page so you don’t need to download it.)
- Recipes and food from Egypt
If any of the above links do not work, please send an email to Down Home and let us know!
SLO Classical Academy is not affiliated with any of the above mentioned sites or businesses.
