Lesson Plan

Ancient Egypt Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Read the river's three seasons, crack the Rosetta Stone, run a drying lab, and meet the pyramid builders.

This is the Middles Edition of Ancient Egypt: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How did one river shape the way ancient Egyptians farmed, wrote, built and lived?

The Week

• Mon: The Gift of the Nile (Reading) • Tue: Cracking the Code (Writing & Words) • Wed: Apple Mummy Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Make a Rosetta Stone (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Who Built the Pyramids? (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Ancient Egypt has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Apple Mummy Lab
• Sequence cards (From Quarry to Pyramid) and a cut-and-sort page (Akhet, Peret or Shemu?)
• Writing page: How the Code Was Cracked
• Hands-on project: Your Own Rosetta Stone
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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