Ancient Civilizations

Writing Across the Curriculum in Social Studies

Writing Across the Curriculum: HistoryFix learning to write and writing to learn in social studies and history class

"I just finished reading Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart by Ardith Davis Cole. Doesn't the title even make you nod your head in agreement? Students will buy into looking good and sounding smart in a flash."

"Ancient Greek kids had pets too"

"The Five-Paragraph Theme Redux By: Elizabeth Rorschach"

Amazing site for ancient Rome resources

WOODEN MODEL FUNERARY BOAT Sycamore fig wood 12th Dynasty, about 1900 BC

This is an excellent website for teaching history to kids. It contains some fairly detailed information.

"R.A.F.T. Prompts for History & Social Studies Class building a writing prompt that challenges students to think deeply about history "

Lost history is being recovered by reconstructing documents that survived in fragments wrapped in mummy casings

Mummies of Ancient Egypt

Unit 3: Ancient Rome

What a great website full of things to do and see. Check it out!

"Reasons for the Fall of Rome"

Welcome to Life in Ancient Egypt, an introduction to The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Carnegie Museum of Natural History has acquired Egyptian artifacts since its founding and now holds about twenty-five-hundred ancient Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of these objects, over six hundred of them, are displayed in The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt. In the hall the artifacts are displayed in relation to the daily life and traditions of the people who made them, so that the objects are seen in the context of the culture. To present a cohesive picture of ancient Egyptian society, its technology, its social system, and its beliefs, we have arranged the objects in several thematic areas. Life in Ancient Egypt, however, presents the themes in a slightly different order than the hall. You may choose from the links to the left or follow the suggested path by clicking the Next button on each screen. We hope you have the opportunity to come to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and visit The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt had by tradition a great variety of gods and what today can be labeled as "spirits" and "divine forces". The total number of them was over 2.000 but many had similar characteristics and appeared all over the country by different names. This great diversity is due to the fact that before the country was united the Nile Valley was split up into about forty self ruling areas (later to be provinces - so called nomes) where the ruling tribes had their own deities.