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A Unit Study for Homeschool
Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating of world cultures! What child isn't intrigued with mummies, pyramids, and the complicated religion of this ancient civilization?
Create an interdisciplinary study by including subjects besides just history. For example, you can study the plethora of gods and goddesses through their portrayal in Egyptian art. The Egyptians also had advanced mathematical understanding.
Float down the Nile with the Pharaohs and study Ancient Egypt today. Record your learning in a lapbook or notebook! Here are some of the best free, online resources available.
Ancient Egypt Lapbook Photos
These photos are from my daughter's Ancient Egypt lapbook created in the first grade. We were using Sonlight curriculum (Core 1) at the time.
Egypt lapbook cover
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mummy book
mummy book opened
map book
mapbook open
Nile book
Nile first page
Nile second page
Nile 2nd page open
Nile hippo page
Sphinx book
Sphinx inside
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inside flap raised
games pocket
pyramid book
pyramid open once
pyramid open fully
Free Ancient Egypt Lapbook Printables
- Our Homeschooling Expedition
- A homeschooling mother shares what she created for her own children -- a free lapbook all about Ancient Egypt!
- Homeschool Helper
- This is a unit study about Ancient Egypt. Look for the link below the activities list that says Lapbook Templates (pdf file).
- Samples from Tapestry of Grace
- Reproducibles for a complete (but simple) lapbook -- mummies, pyramids, pharaohs, geography, and flora/fauna of Egypt. You can find the entire 3 week introductory sample with lesson plans and more here.
- Homeschool Share's FREE Ancient Egypt Unit Study and Lapbook
- A bibliography, a detailed outline, and loads of free printable templates!
- Ancient Egypt Minibooks at Dynamic 2 Moms
- Dynamic 2 Moms share some nice Ancient Egypt minibooks on their Ancient Civilizations page. These PDFs include a cover page, hieroglyphs, scarabs, gods, kingdoms of Egypt, Egyptian life, and mummies.
- Free Bookmarks and Hieroglyphs Chart
- Two nice printables are offered free here!
- British Museum
- These are actually teacher's guides to help with a museum tour. But even it you can't tour this exhibit, there are some nice pages in these PDFs.
Life in Ancient Egypt-- pages 14 & 15 are especially adaptable to minibooks. One has a piece of Egyptian art and various gods and goddesses to label in the image. Another is a list of Egyptian good luck symbols with space to draw your own.
Also the Symbols of the Pharaoh PDF has some nice charts and worksheets that would make great minibooks or notebooking pages.
Browse around their PDF offerings and see what suits your particular unit study. - Paper Dali
- These adorable paper dolls were made by a mom who uses them to teach and play with her children! You'll find Egyptian men, women, Pharoah, and some gods.
- Learning Connections Ancient Egypt Resources
- Especially nice here are the map of ancient Egypt and the hieroglyphics chart. But there are other options that you may find useful as well.
- Pyramid Shape Template
- This 2D drawing of a pyramid shows its 3D quality with dotted lines. Use this template to make a shape book or even a trifold or accordion book.
- Highland Heritage Forms
- Scroll down to the Ancient Egypt section for several choices including a pyramid shapebook, an Egyptian princess shape book, a cartouche pattern and a falcon necklace pattern.
- Carnegie Science Center
- Scroll down to Mummies: Secret of the Pharaohs, a full color PDF jam packed with facts and beautiful photographs. Although this is a resource guide to accompany an Omnimax movie, this resource can stand alone as a great reference about mummies. This even goes into forensic science and would be of great interest to older children.
More Ancient Egypt Lapbooks and Unit Studies
- Marine Corps Nomads: Ancient Egypt Lapbook
- Great lapbook photos!
- Walking by the Way
- Lots of hands on activities plus a lapbook.
- Mad House Academy's Ancient Egypt Lapbook
- A photoset at Flickr.
History Pockets
History Pockets: Ancient Egypt: Grades 4-6+
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 11/23/2009)
Used Price: $9.54
Suitable for grades 4-6.
History Pockets Ancient Civilizations
Grades 1-3
History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations, Grades 1-3
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 11/23/2009)
Used Price: $7.98
We used this title when my daughter studied ancient civilizations in first grade. Ancient Egypt is one section of this book. Other civilizations covered are Mesopotamia, Greece, China, Rome, and Aztecs.
Free Ancient Egypt Coloring Books
the best on the web -- for free
Here are the best coloring pages related to Ancient Egypt. No silly cartoon style mummies here. I tried to link to only the most realistic educational pages.- Activity Village Ancient Egypt Coloring Pages
- These are really nice coloring pages with bold black outlines and lots of detail. Amazingly, they are free!
- Cleveland Museum of Art -- Ancient Egypt Coloring Book
- Eight detailed images available in a PDF.
- EduPics Coloring Pages
- Sixty diffferent images -- including both black and white line drawings and full color clip art. Some of these are from Dover Coloring Books, and are very detailed.
- The Great Sphinx Coloring Page
- On this Wonders of the World page, is a jpg black and white outline of the Sphinx to color. This would be a great graphic for a minibook. Or you could even use it as the template and cover for a shapebook.
Coloring Book
Life in Ancient Egypt Coloring Book
Amazon Price: $3.95 (as of 11/23/2009)
Used Price: $0.01
What's Your Favorite Aspect?
A Hilarous Look at Ancient Egypt
Good Times Travel Agency
Adventures in Ancient Egypt (Good Times Travel Agency)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/23/2009)
Used Price: $3.10
My daughter loves this series (other titles include Ancient China, Vikings, and Ancient Greece). The Binkerton twins and their little sister Libby travel back in time and get involved in ridiculous adventures as they learn about ancient civilizations.
These books are done in comic book style with facts added at the bottom of each page. Some of the books include cleverly disguised nudity (a topless dancer behind a column for example) or bare bottoms of children, so be aware if that is an issue with you. I find them culturally appropriate and humorous, not lewd at all.
Free Clip Art for Ancient Egypt
- Karen's Whimsy Ancient Egypt Public Domain Clip Art
- A wonderful collection of black and white images. Be sure to look at all of them. From the menu on the left, choose Ancient Past and then Egyptians. There are many pages available!
- Neferchichi's Tomb Free Clip Art
- A really attractive site with nice clipart of gods and goddesses, hieroglyphs, and more.
- King Tut One Ancient Egypt Clip Art
- Six pages of images including these topics: pyramids and the sphinx, the vulture and the scarab, the Gods of Egypt, People of Ancient Egypt, decorative banners, pharaohs and queens.
- Webweaver's Free Clip Art
- A few quality selections including King Tut, scarab, and an animated eye of Horus.
Be sure to look at the bottom of the pages for additional links to Ankhs, Egyptian Gods & Godesses, and Egyptian Webpage Dividers. - Classroom Clipart
- This site has some great images, but they are not organized correctly all of the time. So don't let the images of Greek warriors and Greek columns stop you when you land on the Ancient Egypt page. Click on some of the subcategories within Ancient Egypt or browse through the entire category. There are some good images here. And since they are specifically for educational uses, they are all kid friendly.
- EduPics Coloring Pages
- Among the coloring pages are many full color JPG clip art images.
Ancient Egypt Notebooking Pages
Great RETAIL notebooking pages can be bought at discounted prices at CurrClick.Or if you prefer, purchase straight from the retailers themselves:
- FREE Activity Village Ancient Egypt Lined Papers
- Besides five choices of lined paper, there is one unlined and one blank sarcophagus outline that would be good for making a shapebook.
- Notebooking Nook's FREEBIES
- At Notebooking Nook's Freebie page, you'll find these applicable pages:
Early Egyptians, Abraham, Joseph, 10 Plagues Chart, Amenhotep IV, Nefertiti, Tutankhamon, Ramses II, Anciet Egypt (gods and symbols), Ancient Egypt (kings & rulers). - Homeschool Helper Online (FREE)
- Just two choices here -- Ancient Egypt & Egyptian Statue.
- Homeschool Launch (FREE)
- This is a site where homeschool parents freely share the things they make for their own children. Put Egypt into the search box and see what notebooking pages come up. Samutsari is one mom who offers some really attractive freebies. Betsy Stout is another. But since people are always adding new resources, you really should search the site.
- (FREE) Ancient Egypt Notebooking Pages
- Twenty five pretty pages featuring people, events, and places of Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egypt Toob
small figurines for acting out
Safari LTD Ancient Egypt Toob
Amazon Price: $10.00 (as of 11/23/2009)
Used Price:
What fun these would add to a study of Ancient Egypt! Little ones can play with toys that reinforce your unit study as they listen in to the older children's lessons. The toys could be used to narrate back what was studied. Or use them to create 3D dioramas!
Hands on Activities for Ancient Egypt
Free Ideas for Hands-on Activities, Crafts, and Projects
- Cleveland Museum of Art -- Egyptomania
- Make a fantastic paper model of a Pharaoh Death Mask. Two printable pages are available for FREE!
- Paper craft Sphinx and Pyramid
- These are fairly complicated models, so save them for your older students.
- Mummified King Tut Mask Craft
- This is actually a Halloween costume idea. It offers three printable PDFs to create King Tut's mask.
- Egypt Themed Board Game
- This is just the board game. You will have to create your own questions and rules to get around the board.
Lift the Lid on Mummies
A hands on kit
Lift The Lid On Mummies
Amazon Price: $16.52 (as of 11/24/2009)
Used Price: $3.19
Heiroglyphs and Cartouches
- Make Your Own Cartouche
- Enter your name and the online tool will generate a golden graphic (vertical orientation) which you can save or print.
- Hieroglyphic Name Translator
- This tool gives your name in black and white horizontal hieroglyphics. You can then print the image with your browser's print function.
Online Activities about Ancient Egypt
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- This is a wonderful interactive, kid appropriate site for learning about history. You can explore a tomb and learn about how mummies were made. In the printables section there are Seega and Mehen -- two Egyptian games.
- Cleveland Museum of Art -- Egyptomania
- Another very kid friendly site. Here you can play Senet and Hounds & Jackals online.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Oct 2, 2009 @ 11:50 am
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- Beth_in_MD Beth_in_MD Jul 29, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
- Thanks for pulling this all together so well...this will be VERY helpful for our Egypt unit study!
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- Kim Kim Jul 2, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
- These are great ideas for a lapbook. Thanks for sharing.
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