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**Teachers**: Mr. Alves, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. McLaren **Level**: Grade 6 **Subject**: Social Studies **Week of**: September 1, 2009

__Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks __ Students will be able to: Describe the polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt with respect to beliefs about death, the afterlife, mummification, and the roles of different deities. (SS 7.15) Apply steps for obtaining information from a variety of sources, organizing information, documenting sources, and presenting research in individual and group projects. (ELA 24.3) Create a media production using effective images, text, music, sound effects, or graphics. (ELA 27.3) Read aloud grade appropriate text (ELA 7.10) 3. Activities * Create a wikispace on the process of mummification that includes:
 * 1) Project Overview: In this project, students will learn about the process of making a mummy in ancient Egypt. Research skills will be emphasized as well as incorporated into a wikispace. The wikispace will include text, images, a podcast, a minimum of three links to ancient Egyptian websites, and a widget.
 * 2) Goals and Objectives:
 * A podcast
 * Images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A widget
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Graphics

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Innovation and Collaboration <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Our project is an innovative approach to teaching ancient Egypt because students will participate in cooperative, hands on activities to accurately and historically explain the process of mummification and the significance of hieroglyphics. Students will use technology to reach the stated objectives. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">5. Dissemination <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Wikispaces will be shared with parents, faculty, and other students during the Davis Showcase. Students will submit a synopsis of their project to the school newsletter.