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This book provides activities to help students create "museums" full of specially crafted "artifacts" such as masks, jewelry, pottery, mosaics, weapons, and more that highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based. Includes reproducible pages for exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share information through oral presentations, guided tours, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. Activities are based on current academic content standards. Museums are storehouses of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient Mesopotamia provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. These projects and activities highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based. Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups: - Cuneiform tablets
- Queen Puabi's golden headdress
- Beaded jewelry
- Tokens and clay containers
- Cylinder seals
- Ishtar Gate mosaic tile
- A model of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- A ziggurat journal
- Dioramas depicting stories of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Also included are reproducible pages for making exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share their information through oral presentations, guided tours of their museum, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. The projects and activities are based on current academic content standards. |
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