Below you will find a original lesson plan that can be used as an introduction to seasons and Agriculture in Ancient Egypt. In the lesson plan I use a video in the anticipatory set, a 3-2-1 chart as proof of student work, and a PowerPoint for notes. All of these materials can be found below!
Essential Questions:
What conditions are necessary for a civilization to begin to develop?
Common Core Standards:
What conditions are necessary for a civilization to begin to develop?
- 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 the development of agriculture change human life?
Common Core Standards:
- 6.1 PRESENT-DAY EASTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The diverse geography of the Eastern Hemisphere has influenced human culture and settlement patterns in distinct ways. Human communities in the Eastern Hemisphere have adapted to or modified the physical environment.
- 6.1a Maps can be used to represent varied climate zones, landforms, bodies of water, and resources of the Eastern Hemisphere.
- 6.1c The physical environment influences human population distribution, land use, economic activities, and political connections. Students will use physical, climate, and vegetation maps in combination with population density, land use, and resource distribution maps in order to discern patterns in human settlement, economic activity, and the relationship to scarcity of resources in the present-day Eastern Hemisphere. To understand scale, students will work with maps at a variety of scales so they can compare patterns in population density and land use, economic activity, and political connections across the present-day Eastern Hemisphere, within a region of the Eastern Hemisphere, and in a specific country. In doing so, students will examine maps of the hemisphere, three regions within the present-day Eastern Hemisphere, and one specific country within each region
- 6.2 THE FIRST HUMANS THROUGH THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE: The first humans modified their physical environment as well as adapted to their environment.
- 6.3 EARLY RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE (ca. 3500 B.C.E. – ca. 500 B.C.E.): Complex societies and civilizations developed in the Eastern Hemisphere. Although these complex societies and civilizations have certain defining characteristics in common, each is also known for unique cultural achievements and contributions. Early human communities in the Eastern Hemisphere adapted to and modified the physical environment.
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