Students need to design a diorama using a shoe box size 3-D format of an Egyptian settlement with farm fields along the Nile, irrigation canals though the fields, and houses along the edges of the fields. They could also include an outlying desert utilizing various types of material.
Possible choices of materials could include sandpaper, paper model houses with narrow windows high in the walls and roofs made of sticks with small palm leaves, place small mats inside the house, model clay for the fertile land and paint the Nile with blue tempera paint, as examples.
We discussed various options in class during the week of October 21, 2007 and certain reference pages were noted in the students’ social studies books. Additionally, the students sketched an idea for their model in class. The next steps are to gather supplies and construct the project.
Refer to Chapter 5- Lesson 1 pgs. 147-153
