English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How can we, as archaeologists, create an Egyptian tomb that teaches others about the most important aspects of Egyptian culture?

Science: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cell through the mumification of an apple.

Social Studies: Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Egypt.

English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How should a determined ancient civilization handle the climate change issue today based on their systems, structures, beliefs and geography?

Science: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

Social Studies: Students analyze ancient civilizations and decide how they these ancient civilizations would handle the climate change issue today. Students discover how they would respond to climate change based on their beliefs, systems, structures and geography. 

Mathematics Aligned

Essential Question: How did civilizations of the past promote and develop their cultures through education? How might we improve the frequency with which we memorize information?

Science: Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.

Social Studies: Students discuss the legacies of ancient civilizations in technology, science, literature, government and art.