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Curated OER

"An Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth"

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders debate their reactions to two different historical documents about managing a society.  In this U.S. history lesson, 6th graders read two articles on codes and laws from different time periods and debate their...
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Curated OER

World Geography Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this world geography worksheet, students answer several questions based on world geography and landmarks. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Curated OER

U.S. Place Names Show Our Diversity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study place names for different area in the US and determine why they were named in such a way. They examine maps to look at the religious names, "new" beginning names, and copy cat names. They complete a word search to find...
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Curated OER

Papyrus

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study what papyrus was and what it was used for. Students explore how papyrus was made, and the two writing systems hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
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Curated OER

Articles: Mixed Articles Exercise #4

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this mixed articles worksheet, young scholars complete ten sentences adding a, an, the or no article to the sentence. Sentences are in multiple choice format.
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Curated OER

Wheat: Ancient and Ageless

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars label the parts of a wheat plant on a worksheet. In this Egyptian farming instructional activity, students thresh a wheat stem and estimate the amount harvested. Young scholars research Ancient Egypt online.
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Other

Cmc: Mysteries of Egypt: Nile River & Desert

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource provides great pictures of the Nile River and surrounding desert with some description of this unique geography. Very interesting and informative.
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A&E Television

History.com: Why the Nile River Was So Important to Ancient Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
From nourishing agricultural soil to serving as a transportation route, the Nile was vital to ancient Egypt's civilization. The Nile, which flows northward for 4,160 miles from east-central Africa to the Mediterranean, provided ancient...
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Nile River Facts and History

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn the history, location, and other interesting facts about the Nile River.
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Other

Art History Worlds: Early River Valley Civilizations

For Students 9th - 10th
Why did the first complex, politically centralized civilizations materialize along rivers? Find out here by taking a close look at the Nile River civilizations, Mesopotamia, the Harappan civilization and the Xia, the Shang, and the Zhou...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: The Nile River and Geography of Ancient Egypt for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Nile River Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Egyptian History: Geography and the Nile River

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Ancient Egyptian Geography and the Nile River. The Nile provided fertile land, transportation, and building materials for Egypt.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a six-page PDF of prefaces to A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards, an Egyptian travelogue published in 1877, which described Edwards's 1873-1874 voyage up the Nile River.
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BBC

Bbc: Egyptians: The Story of the Nile

For Students 9th - 10th
Obviously instrumental in Egypt's growth as a magnificent civilization, the Nile's annual inundation provided Egyptians with food and transportation. Archived.
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Other

15.0 (High School) "Rising Tensions Over the Nile River Basin" Mini Unit [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson students will analyze the concept of a global commons dilemma through an evaluation of a primary source document.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: Israel and Egypt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media-rich site address the ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, Israel and the limitations of natural resources throughout Egypt due to the nation's dependence upon the Nile River. Understand the relationship between human identity and...
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PBS

Pbs: Egypt's Golden Kingdom: Farming

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why sustainable farming was key to Egypt's success. Fertile land supported crops, farmers learned to work with the Nile River, and irrigation, of a sort, was practiced.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Buster's Egyptian Adventure

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students join Buster Baxter on a ancient Egypt, in this geography activity. Students learn about Cairo, ancient Egypt, the pyramids, the Nile River, and relevant vocabulary terms. Then students write about what they've learned in the...
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Andre Dollinger

Reshafim: The Nile

For Students 9th - 10th
Along with a map of the Nile, read about settlements in the area and the importance of the Nile and its flooding to the ancient Egyptians. Follow hyperlinks to additional information.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Rivers and Streams

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Evergreen Project profiles the natural history of rivers and streams. Topics include watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, erosion, water pollution, and the like.
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: The River Nile

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning resource for kids with map and photos on the Nile River tells about the importance of rivers to the development of civilization in ancient Egypt. Inlcudes links to teacher resources.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Longest River in the World

For Students 4th - 6th
Compares the Amazon River with the Nile River to show that the Amazon is the largest but the Nile is the longest. Includes interesting facts about the Nile River and a table comparing the sizes of ten rivers around the world.
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Other

Saudio Aramco World: The Last Nile Flood

For Students 9th - 10th
An article regarding the yearly flooding of the Nile River.
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Other

The Source of the Nile

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes David Livingstone's journey to discover the source of the Nile.

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