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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Egypt: In the Land of the Pyramids Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive, multiple choice quiz over Egyptian Pyramids. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Mummies and Pyramids

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. Mummies and Pyramids, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is the...
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Lesson Plan
Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An Ancient Egypt website by a nationally known teacher that includes, history, creative writing by students, lesson plans, and links to other sites.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Ancient Egypt Religion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Topics discussed: creation, symbols, polytheism, Book of the Dead, Mummification, Cartouche, Curse of the Mummy, pyramids, and the Riddle of Sphinx. Very Interactive!!! - Make your own cartouche, explore a tomb, and make your own mummy.
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Handout
Tour Egypt

Tour Egypt: Overview of Pyramid Construction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a description of the design of step pyramids and true pyramids found in Egypt, as well as a discussion of construction techniques with excellent graphics.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Who Built the Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
Who built the pyramids? The colossal geometric monuments found at Giza and elsewhere in Egypt are some of Earth's most impressive constructions.
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Unit Plan
National Museums Liverpool

The Nile File

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow your guide and see the life of an ordinary Egyptian man at school, at home, and in the village. Take a quiz to see what you've learned. There are additional links to activities, websites, books and more.
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Handout
Other

Egipto.com: La Revolucion De Las Piramides

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish, learn about improvements and changes to building pyramids as new pharaohs direct the empire. Pyramids now have stairs to carry those entombed to the heavens.
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Handout
Other

Egipto.com: Origenes De Las Pirimides

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish, good information on the origins of the Egyptian pyramids. This site has many more links for more in-depth information.
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Website
Science Daily

Science Daily: How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing how Egyptian pyramids were constructed.
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Website
PBS

Nova Online Adventures: Pyramids, the Inside Story

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this site to explore the pyramids of Egypt and to learn how they were built and why.
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Interactive
Discovering Egypt

Discovering Egypt: Pyramids and Temples

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site creates a computer-generated reconstruction of Egyptian pyramids and temples. View pyramid floor plans, paintings, drawings, and photos.
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Ancient Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 6 Grade-Leveled texts (7-12) on the topic Ancient Egypt. Egyptian civilization is over 5,000 years old. While modern Egypt is different in many ways, the influence of Ancient Egypt can still be felt along the...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and Queen

For Students 9th - 10th
Serene ethereal beauty, raw royal power, and evidence of artistic virtuosity have rarely been simultaneously captured as well as in this breathtaking, nearly life-size statue of the pharaoh Menkaure and a queen. Read descriptions of this...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Creating a Robot (2 Days)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
What do tin foil, surface area, and rectangular prisms make? A tin foil robot of course! This lesson plan includes practice problems about surface area, worksheets, a video explanation, and a reflection sheet.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, students learn how historians think the pyramids were built and why they were built-as doorways to the afterlife for the pharaohs.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Little Known Peruvian Pyramids That Are as Old as Egypt's

For Students 9th - 10th
Caral was an architectural marvel - a 1,500-acre complex constructed by the oldest known civilization in the Western Hemisphere. Colossal pyramid structures in the Americas as old as those in Egypt? The Sacred City of Caral-Supe, in...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: 3 D Space

For Students 2nd - 4th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include identifying 3D objects, identifying the similarities and differences in prisms and pyramids, and drawing 3D shapes such as...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Volume

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will find the volume of geometric solids.
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Activity
NumberNut

Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: 3 D Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson describes three dimensional shapes and provides two interactive practice activities.
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Graphic
University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a browsable a-to-z library of clip art of ancient Egyptian architectural elements, such as capitals, columns, temple designs, tombs, pyramids, obelisks, sphinxes, and pylons. Library also includes clip art of...
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Website
University College London

University College London: Digital Egypt: Evolution of the Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated explanation of how pyramids developed from earlier tomb structures, with links to related information, illustrations, and animated diagrams.
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Activity
Other

Personal Site: Pyramids, Dipyramids, and Trapexohedra

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a personal site that discusses the popular polyhedron, the pyramid. It explains that by joining two pyramids you will get a dipyramid.
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Graphic
Friesian School

Friesian School: The Tomb of Rameses Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
The Friesian School provides a drawing and brief description of Rameses II's tomb.