Egypt and Mesopotamia

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of the Ancient World by Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, et al.

Materials

Common Materials

• scissors
• tape, glue stick, or glue
• timeline binder and timeline cards
• colored pencils, crayons, or markers
• colored pencils
• paper or cardstock
• art materials

Lesson 1

• string or yarn * (1.2 - Option 1)
• timeline cards
• timeline pages
• 3-ring binder
• 8 beanbags or other objects for holding down string markers * (1.2 - Option 1)
• clipboard* (1.2 - Option 1)
• digging tools such as sandbox shovels and sifters, a garden trowel, and a plastic spoon * (1.2 - Option 1)
• found or created objects to serve as artifacts * (1.2 - Option 1)
• hole punch
• paintbrush or old toothbrush* (1.2 - Option 1)
• ruler * (1.2 - Option 1)
• sandbox, unused garden space, or section of land approximately 3' x 3' square * (1.2 - Option 1)

Lesson 2

• play dough
• chopstick with a square end, available at many restaurants

Lesson 3

• ingredients to prepare a Mesopotamian meal
• poster board

Lesson 5

• pencil and pen
• sketch book
• crayons, markers, or watercolors

Lesson 6

• white paper * (6.3 - Option 2)
• stapler * (6.3 - Option 2)
• note cards* (6.3 - Option 1)
• construction paper

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used