The Nile River and Ancient Egypt

Start with the map so students know Upper and Lower Egypt, then fill in the social pyramid. Use the timeline last as a review, and ask students to show their subtraction when they count the years between events.

Label Memphis, Thebes and Giza on a Nile map and explain why Egyptians lived near the river. The directions on the page read: Read the text. Then answer the questions. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade Ancient History, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with Ancient Egypt. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Every summer the Nile flooded and left black mud that made the soil rich, and dry desert lay on both sides of the narrow valley. Students give these reasons on The Nile River and Ancient Egypt and then label a map of the river.

Pyramids, Pharaohs and Mummies explains that archaeologists found a town for the workers, with bakeries and food storage, and tombs where workers were buried with honor. These finds show the builders were Egyptian workers, and many were farmers working during the flood months.

The sheet gives four steps. Workers removed the brain and most inner organs, covered the body with natron for about 40 days, wrapped it in strips of linen and placed the mummy in a coffin.

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, showed the same message in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Because scholars could read the Greek, they could work out the hieroglyphs, and Champollion announced the solution in 1822.