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Grade 6  
Unit 4: Seek and Discover
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt
by Lila Perl

Internet Connection Activity
Ancient Egypt    Cultural Perspectives
Mummies of Ancient Egypt
Connect to this link:
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy


  1. Click on What are Mummies? to begin learning about what the ancient Egyptians felt mummifying someone accomplished.

  2. Go back and click on the other pictures to learn much more about mummies.

  3. List five interesting facts you learned about mummification and the ancient Egyptians.

Odyssey Online: Egypt
Connect to this link:
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html


  1. Click on Egyptian Life and then on the picture in the middle of the page to enter the site.

  2. Read about Egyptian life. Click Explore.

  3. Click on one of the paintings from Nebamun’s tomb.

  4. Click on the objects in the wall paintings to discover more about them.


Internet Connection Activity
Hieroglyphs    Find Out More
Hieroglyphs: Say What?
Connect to this link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/hieroglyph/


  1. Read the page. Click Look at more hieroglyphs to continue.

  2. Click Discover the secret. Can you figure out the code?

  3. Click the answer.

Hieroglyphs
Connect to this link:
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiero1.htm


  1. Read the page and study the symbols.

  2. Click Click here to go to the Egyptian translator.

  3. Spell your name in hieroglyphics.


Internet Connection Activity
Archaeological Discoveries    Leveled Books
Guardian's King Tut
Connect to this link:
http://guardians.net/egypt/tut1.htm


  1. Read The Boy King. See the photograph of Carter on the left of the page and photos of Tut's treasures on the right.

  2. Scroll down to The Diaries of Howard Carter. Click Part One and read Carter's journal entries.

  3. Go back to the main page and click the first Tutankhamun under Tut Links.

  4. See the tomb layout and Tutankhamun's Treasures.

The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Connect to this link:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/inca/#ruins


  1. Read the paragraph. Click The Ruins on the Inca Trail.

  2. Click the photos to enlarge them.

  3. Click the arrow at the bottom of the page. Continue until arriving at Machu Picchu.

  4. Learn about this ancient city.