Lesson 1: Geography of Northern Africa

Big Question: How do people depend on water and other natural resources today?

• The Nile Valley

• Black Land, red Land

• Farming in the Nile Valley

Lesson 2: Importance of the Nile Valley

Big Question: How might people today be affected by their physical environment?

• Giver and Taker of Life

• Sources of Innovation

• Sources of Religion

• Unified Egypt

Lesson 3: Early Egyptian Rule

Big Question: How do people create strong government today?

• The Early Period

• The Old Kingdom

• Building the Pyramids

• Egyptian Way of Life

Lesson 4: Later Egyptian Rule

Big Question: What causes some societies to change over time and others to stay the same?

• The Middle Kingdom

• The New Kingdom

• Egypt Under the Rule of Others

Skills

• Solve a Problem

• Follow Routes on a Map

Story

• His Majesty Queen Hatshepsut

Movie

• The Prince of Egypt