Egypt Unit Plan
Sofía Goldthwait
We find it helpful to share background information at the start of the unit, so students can make connections during other activities. With this Ancient Egypt Slideshow for Google Slides, teach your students about the GRAPES of Ancient Egypt! This 47-slide Google Slideshow provides a detailed overview of Ancient Egypt, including geography, pharaohs, hieroglyphics, and much more! This no-prep resource also includes both printable and digital note sheets!
This Egyptian Mythology activity is a great way for students to demonstrate their understanding of the Egyptian gods and goddesses in a creative way! In this activity, students create a selection of Instagram-styled posts for five of the gods/goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Each post includes an image, caption, and relevant hashtags that help explain who that god or goddess is. Please note that this resource does not teach students about Egyptian mythology. Rather, it is a great activity to help students practice or review the information they have learned about Egyptian Mythology.
Students love using Google Earth, and this creative activity helps connect geography and architecture. This allows students to figure out which clue connects to which landmark or geographical site. It is also available as a printable or digital resource, so use whatever version works best for you. This resource is definitely a highlight of our unit!
This no-prep Great Pyramid of Giza reading passage and activities is perfect for teaching about the Great Pyramid and other Egyptian pyramids! Students will read the passage about the Great Pyramid and how Egyptian pyramids evolved over time. Then they will complete two creative activities about what they learned. Activities include a reading comprehension puzzle and discussion prompt on whether or not the Great Pyramid was worth the cost.
This resource from Harvard University is absolutely amazing with all the uses it can provide for an Ancient Egypt unit! Students can visit several locations, look at panoramic views , images, videos, and it can be an amazing tool to design projects. We only scratched the surface when we discovered this resource, so check it out and see what it can add to your unit!
Giving students choices is a great way to help them personalize their learning and connect their strengths to the content. In this project, students conduct research about a Pharaoh of their choice. Then they create either a 3-D tomb, a rap or song, a magazine, or a talk-show style interview. This resource is originally a group project but can definitely be modified for individual student projects.
Looking for a meaningful way to teach your students about Kushite culture? This gallery walk about the Kingdom of Kush is exactly what you need! This activity highlights 12 artifacts and information that provides an overview of what is known about ancient Kush. With printable, digital, and editable options and an answer key, you have everything you need for a successful activity! A gallery walk can bring a museum experience into the classroom! It gets students up and out of their seats to observe historical images and read information about them. Students will complete a graphic organizer that has them describe each artifact and reflect on how they contribute to our understanding of the Kushites.
Need more engaging resources on the ancient civilization of Kush? This digital Kingdom of Kush resource on the impressive kings and queens of Kush is a must! Present a brief history of 7 different Kushite leaders using the editable Google Slideshow, including Kashta, Taharqa, Arkamani, and more! With the Awards Activity, students will evaluate and award leaders based on their accomplishments. They will explain their choices on their Google Doc, using categories similar to what one might find on an award show like the Grammys or Oscars.
Save yourself time at the end of your Ancient Egypt Unit with this Ancient Egypt Test and Study Guide! This ready-made test has printable and digital options, and all text is 100% editable. It includes a version for Ancient Egypt and Kush, as well as a version without the Kush questions. Each version includes 2 different testing options for Google Docs and for Google Forms, so you have the flexibility to use whichever version works best for you!
Need a way to stay more organized during your Ancient Egypt Unit? These Ancient Egypt Daily Agenda Slides Templates will help you save time and better immerse your students in the unit! These slides for Google Drive are editable and each template features a photograph of Ancient Egypt in the background, as well as Ancient Egypt clipart. They can be used to share your daily agenda, bell ringers, and more!
These printable Ancient Egypt Bookmarks are a fun addition to your Ancient Egypt unit! This set includes four different designs that feature images and clipart that are related to Ancient Egypt. The bookmarks are 100% black and white so that students can color in the images or personalize them as they wish! These coloring bookmarks make a great prize, short early finisher activity, or can even help students save time when using their textbooks!
As of 2024, we now have all of our Ancient Civilizations unit bundles available on our own website, which you can check out here. We believe the organization to be even better than how you can receive the files on TPT, and it also helps if your school district blocks Google Drive files from TPT!
Looking for ideas and inspiration when planning your Ancient Egypt unit? If so, this free Ancient Egypt resource guide can help! It showcases each of our Mesopotamia resources to help you decide which options will be best for your students. For more details about how we put fit these resources together and how long we spend on each activity, you can also download our free Ancient Egypt unit plan!
Curious about how to put together a unit study? Join me as I take you through my process for putting together a unit study for Ancient Egypt. Much of the process is the same for all my history units, and only varies slightly for other units. I use a Waldorf curriculum as a default curriculum but often stray from the curriculum and come up with my own lesson plans.
I love adding hands-on projects to our lessons and if I can get those projects as premade kits, even better!! I sourced most of my kits from Rainbow Resource and more recently from Amazon, though I prefer to patronize small business when possible. While most of the links on this post take you to Amazon, I encourage you to choose the small business of your choice. While the majority of the projects listed are from kits that may no longer be readily available, I have included some that you can DIY yourself with some simply, affordable materials. If any of the kits are no longer available, I recommend finding similar if possible. And please feel free to add your favorite vendor in the comments to aid others in finding materials and kits.
This project can be found at Rainbow Resource. Do check out their other kits and projects. Level: age 8 and up (but my 4 year old helped) Duration: 1-2 hours Cost: $12/kit. You can watch all the projects we did for our Ancient Egypt main lesson block on this playlist on the Pepper and Pine YouTube Channel. You can also try this Mummy Excavation Kit as well.
This kit comes with everything you need to make a stunning painted tile. There was more than enough paint in one kit to make two tiles, so we reserved the set of paints from our second tile for another project as the colors were good reproductions of the colors found in the pyramids and tombs of the kings and pharaohs of Egypt. Art in History Tile Painting can be found at Rainbow Resource:
Watch the complete playlist for Ancient Egypt videos
Want to add archaeology to your history unit? Dig, Discover and Display is a kit that comes with everything you need to excavate, assemble and paint a clay sarcophagus. Unlike some other kits from Dig, Discover and Display, this material was easy to excavate and the artifacts were only in two pieces which made assembly easy. You can find this at Rainbow Resource.
Level: 6 years and up
Duration: 1-2 hours
Cost: $20
As part of our Ancient Egypt unit, we got a papyrus paper making kit that came with two sheets of papyrus: one printed, one plain. Using paints from a previous tile painting kit, the kids (age 4, 9 and 13) painted in the images on the papyrus. We also painted on a set of papyrus that came with six pieces, but did not contain papyrus for making paper. All projects can be found at Rainbow Resource.You can find the Papyrus Making Kit, Papyrus Activity Kit, and Paint Your Own Papyrus from Rainbow Resource. Check out the complete Ancient Egypt Playlist.
Roast sesame seeds at 350 degrees for 3 minutes. Roast nuts for 4 minutes. In a pan, toast seeds (I added oil and chili pepper) until browned for about 3 minutes. Add everything to a blender and blend for about a minute. Serve with bread and olive oil. Our nut dip was still warm when we ate it, and it was better than when it was room temperature or chilled. Serve as an appetizer or with this chicken recipe, or catch up on the whole Ancient Egypt Cooking Playlist.
Boil cabbage leaves for 5 minutes or less, just until they are soft. Set aside. Slice onion and saute it with oil and garlic. Add spinach, coriander, sesame seeds and raisins and continue to cook for about 5 minutes. Scoop about 1-2 tablespoons of mixture into each cabbage leaf and gently fold over the flaps and flip it over onto a serving platter so all the flaps are tucked under. Serve as an appetizer or with this chicken recipe, or catch up on the whole Ancient Egypt Cooking Playlist.
Blend dates, cinnamon and walnuts in a blender. Form into balls. Coat them with warmed honey, coat with slivered almonds. Serve immediately or chilled. Watch them disappear!! Serve as an appetizer or a desert following the chicken in this recipe. Or watch the complete Ancient Egypt Cooking Playlist.
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