King Tut Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterNovember 26, 2007

History

On this day in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in 1323 B.C. Watch this video about King Tut’s tomb: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/04/king.tut.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

You can read more about King Tut here: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/tut/story.asp

Reading/Vocabulary
Read this News story about King Tut: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/newsforyou/pdfs/newsforyou078.pdf
Define the words listed in the News Word Box.
Writing Prompt
If you had a tomb of all the important things in your life, what would be in there?
Geography
King Tut was the ruler of Egypt, but, where in the World is Egypt? Use an atlas or this on-line atlas http://www.atlapedia.com/ to fill out this worksheet: http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/egypt_where.PDF
Science
Make your own mummy here: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp102.shtml

Don’t Forget the Math Challenge!
http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/11/math-challenge-november-26.html

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