Babylon Takes Over Again
Suggestions:
Draw a Picture of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: No one knows how they looked but maybe like a ziggurat with plants - made of terraces stacked on on top of another. Trees shrubs and flowers were brought in from whole empire so it was a green emerald in the middle of the desert. Color a picture of how it might have looked.
Build a Babylonian Mountain Garden: Fill bucket with dirt. Add water and mix with hands to make clay dirt mixture. Sit for a day. Place a stiff piece of cardboard (3x size of bucket mouth) on top. Turn over and remove bucket. Pat dirt back into mountain shape. Sprinkle grass seeds all over the mountain. Press seeds into mountain side. Sprinkle some wild flower seeds on top. Keep in sun and water daily.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Friday, June 12, 2009
SOTW Projects - Ch 4
The Old Kingdom of Egypt
Suggestions:
Make a chicken mummy
Make scented oil: Fill jar to top with spices. Add baby or cooking oil. Set in sun for 1 week - shake 2-3x per day. Drain the oil. Repeat steps for stronger scent. Use as perfume or in mummification.
Make canopic jars
Make a sand cube (or sugar cube) pyramid- mix sand w/ glue until it forms a thick firm moldable mixture. Spread 3/4" thick. Let set 30-45 min (not completely dried). Cut into 3/4" squares. Let dry for 24 hrs. Make a pyramid w/ 25 blocks on bottom and 55 blocks total.
What We Did:
We mummified one of the kids - following ALL the steps.
We built two pyramids from 55 legos and 55 wooden blocks.
We used BAKER's CLAY to make canopic jar toppers to store our organs from the mummification process.
Suggestions:
Make a chicken mummy
Make scented oil: Fill jar to top with spices. Add baby or cooking oil. Set in sun for 1 week - shake 2-3x per day. Drain the oil. Repeat steps for stronger scent. Use as perfume or in mummification.
Make canopic jars
Make a sand cube (or sugar cube) pyramid- mix sand w/ glue until it forms a thick firm moldable mixture. Spread 3/4" thick. Let set 30-45 min (not completely dried). Cut into 3/4" squares. Let dry for 24 hrs. Make a pyramid w/ 25 blocks on bottom and 55 blocks total.
What We Did:
We mummified one of the kids - following ALL the steps.
We built two pyramids from 55 legos and 55 wooden blocks.
We used BAKER's CLAY to make canopic jar toppers to store our organs from the mummification process.
SOTW Projects - Ch 3
The First Writing
Suggestions:
Make cuneiform tablets
Make a hieroglyphic scroll
Learn why clay tablets lasted longer than paper scrolls:
~Set both outside for one week and see how they both fared.
~Simulate a flood - leave in a tub of water for 5 min. (any longer and the paper might be too far gone)
~Place them in the Egyptian desert (oven set to 200 or less) for 1 hr (peek at 30 min to make sure paper isn't charring. If it is, turn off oven but leave it in).
~Show many other people the scroll, unrolling and rerolling each time. Show off the tablet to the same number of people.
What we did:
Wrote their names on clay tablets using a screwdriver for a wedge.
Translated their names from Hieroglyphics to English.
Suggestions:
Make cuneiform tablets
Make a hieroglyphic scroll
Learn why clay tablets lasted longer than paper scrolls:
~Set both outside for one week and see how they both fared.
~Simulate a flood - leave in a tub of water for 5 min. (any longer and the paper might be too far gone)
~Place them in the Egyptian desert (oven set to 200 or less) for 1 hr (peek at 30 min to make sure paper isn't charring. If it is, turn off oven but leave it in).
~Show many other people the scroll, unrolling and rerolling each time. Show off the tablet to the same number of people.
What we did:
Wrote their names on clay tablets using a screwdriver for a wedge.
Translated their names from Hieroglyphics to English.
SOTW Projects - Ch 2
Egyptians Lived On the Nile River
Suggestions:
Make a model of the Nile River.
Make the White Crown of Upper Egypt: wrap wax paper around head to make cone shape. Tape edges closed. Scrunch 8.5x11" paper into egg shape. Push ball of paper into peak of cone and mould waxed paper around it. Result is a cone w/ a flattened top and an indent at the bottom of the egg shaped top. Cut bottom edge of cone so it fits onto head, then cut out ear area.
Make Shepherd's crook of the Pharaohs: twist newspaper into cylindrical shape and bend to form 5-6" hook shape. Insert straight end into wrapping paper tube. Cover entire hook with masking tape or paper mache and paint.
What We Did:
Pour soil into roasting pan. Form a gulley for Nile River (don't forget the Delta). Use rocks and pebbles to build up sides. Sprinkle grass seed. Flood the Nile.
(We didn't do it but it suggests laying foil over the dirt, then weighing down w/ rocks. Flood Nile weekly and watch grass flourish.
...And then play baseball.
Suggestions:
Make a model of the Nile River.
Make the White Crown of Upper Egypt: wrap wax paper around head to make cone shape. Tape edges closed. Scrunch 8.5x11" paper into egg shape. Push ball of paper into peak of cone and mould waxed paper around it. Result is a cone w/ a flattened top and an indent at the bottom of the egg shaped top. Cut bottom edge of cone so it fits onto head, then cut out ear area.
Make Shepherd's crook of the Pharaohs: twist newspaper into cylindrical shape and bend to form 5-6" hook shape. Insert straight end into wrapping paper tube. Cover entire hook with masking tape or paper mache and paint.
What We Did:Pour soil into roasting pan. Form a gulley for Nile River (don't forget the Delta). Use rocks and pebbles to build up sides. Sprinkle grass seed. Flood the Nile.
(We didn't do it but it suggests laying foil over the dirt, then weighing down w/ rocks. Flood Nile weekly and watch grass flourish.
...And then play baseball.
SOTW Projects - Ch 1
Suggestions:
One a large (2x3') sheet of paper the kids designed their structure. They went to the wooded area behind our house and gathered sticks and bound them together with long grasses to make a sort of teepee. They filled in the walls with dried grasses.
I did not have my camera available the day we did it and didn't get around to taking pictures until 3 full days later ... following a horrendous rain storm. I couldn't believe how much of their dwelling lasted that long. They did a thorough job.
- Make a cave painting on brown paper bags (crumpled and flattened to represent cave walls).
- Make a prehistoric hunter's "game bag" from animal print material. (like Bahpa's!)
- Build your own hut
One a large (2x3') sheet of paper the kids designed their structure. They went to the wooded area behind our house and gathered sticks and bound them together with long grasses to make a sort of teepee. They filled in the walls with dried grasses.
I did not have my camera available the day we did it and didn't get around to taking pictures until 3 full days later ... following a horrendous rain storm. I couldn't believe how much of their dwelling lasted that long. They did a thorough job.
SOTW Projects - Introduction
Suggestions:
Make a History of My Family book including pictures and a family history page for each family member. Conduct interviews with family members to get early memories.
Make a timeline of your life.
Simulate an archaeological dig to uncover items from your home that represent our civilization.
What We Did:
There were 4 families (9 kids) involved. H created a grid on a large sand pit in her backyard and buried a "treasure" in each square. Each child was assigned a square, handed a shovel and brush, and directed to carefully excavate to find their treasure. They found letters which spelled the word archeology.
Make a History of My Family book including pictures and a family history page for each family member. Conduct interviews with family members to get early memories.
Make a timeline of your life.
Simulate an archaeological dig to uncover items from your home that represent our civilization.
What We Did:
There were 4 families (9 kids) involved. H created a grid on a large sand pit in her backyard and buried a "treasure" in each square. Each child was assigned a square, handed a shovel and brush, and directed to carefully excavate to find their treasure. They found letters which spelled the word archeology.
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