Teaching History with Technology - Mesopotamia and more
EDTECH Editor-Eiffert
Greetings Ed Tech Members,
Linda Bee posted this site to Net Gold list.
Cuneiform Tablets - From the Library of Congress
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/
Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash
to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and
brick fragments inscribed using the ancient
pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from
the Library of Congress´ collections. The Sumerians
invented this writing system, which involves the use
of a wedge-shaped reed stylus to make impressions in
clay.
Find out more - Cuneiform Tablets: About the
Collection
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/about.html
I checked the link in another post from Linda and
found this was recommended in Teaching History With
Technology Newsletter:
http://thwt.org/newsletterh6.htm
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This is what I did with Mesopotamia.
I did foil tooling as an art project (we looked at all
metal work from the Middle East) and gave
social studies teachers clay and some scratch sticks
to do their own cuneiform. I fired their clay projects
for them.
I have one of my foil tooling project on IAD:
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/leann-copper.htm
Scroll down (or click link at top).
The ceramic plates have border designs made from
handmade cylinder seals. We made our cylinder seals
from air dry clay to save time. Seals made this way
will deteriorate if they get wet - but they lasted
just fine for this project. I kept the ones I made and
used them for many years.
Another project we did was foil tooled boxes. A
cardboard box was made and the foil wrapped over that.
Our boxes were about 4" square. My box template fit on
8 1/2 x 11 photocopy paper....with the actual foil
being made a tad bit larger (1/4 inch tabs made) to
fold over the edges of the box. Students designed the
sides - top and bottom of the box on the photocopy
template.
Another project was ceramics of ancient Iran. I had
slides of many great effigy vessels. Student made
their own effigy vessels. All functional ceramics.
Hope many of you find the Newsletter of use.
Regards,
Judy Decker
Incredible Art Department
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/
Incredible Art Resources
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/
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