Books are a great way to help enhance students learning! Ancient Egypt is a pretty magical place and below you will find a fiction and non-fiction book that can be used in the teaching of Ancient Egypt. With each book there is a summary as well as a list of discussion questions that can be used as well. Pictures of the two books used are shown below, click on Book Discussion Questions to open the book summaries and questions.
Essential Questions:
Common Core Standards:
- How did the location, geography, and climate of Ancient Egypt affect the development of civilization there?
- How important was the Nile River to life in Ancient Egypt?
- How did the Ancient Egyptians adapt to their environment?
- How did the early people use their surroundings to help themselves survive?
- How did location affect how early people lived?
- How did the development of agriculture change human life?
Common Core Standards:
- 6.1a Maps can be used to represent varied climate zones, landforms, bodies of water, and resources of the Eastern Hemisphere.
- 6.2a Human populations that settled along rivers, in rainforests, along coastlines, in deserts, and in mountains made use of the resources and the environment around them in developing distinct ways of life.
- 6.2b Early peoples in the Eastern Hemisphere are often studied by analyzing artifacts and archaeological features. Archaeologists engage in digs and study artifacts and features in a particular location to gather evidence about a group of people and how they lived at a particular time.
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