Project Presentation Term 1

You will do a 2 minute presentation.  Have 8 slides for your presentation, AND a title slide and a bibliography slide (10 in total) All words must be yours or in quotations.  Please check out the teacher supplied web sites above.  Include only the facts that are important or interesting. Blog below your topic. The following is only a partial list of what you may pick. 

Early People Section
Theory of Evolution
Ice Age
Nazca Lines
Cro-Magnons 
Neanderthals
Great Leap Forward
Stonehenge
Easter Island
Early Tools
Hunting and Gathering Lifestyle
Agrarian Lifestyle

The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Sumaria
Babylon
Writing
Hannibal
The Wheel


Ancient Egypt
Gods 
A Specific God
Pyramids
Family Life
Great Pyramids of Giza 
The role of the Nile
The Sphinx

Rosetta Stone

Clothing
Art
Temples
Manitoba Legislative Building

The economy

Medicine

Pharaohs


Mummies


Valley of the Kings


Social Classes


Farming

Food and Drink


Transportation


Technology

Hieroglyphics

Military


Slavery

Everyday Life
Dwellings

Jewelry

Scribes
Priests

Timeline of what we have studied, till now.

Using TimeLine 3D on your computer, create a timeline based on the following events and post on Kidblog.

These dates should all be in your first note frame.
1. How old  are the earliest Homo Sapiens (us)  remains.
2. When did people take the Great Leap forward  (hint, if you don't get this, you too might have to go back 50,000 years hehehe).
3. This climate event ended, which made agriculture a possibility.
4. When  agrarian societies first appeared

This Date we talked about, check your class notes
5. When the first form of written language, cuneiform, appeared

The following dates are found here http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/time/explore/main.html
6.When Hieroglyphics started to be developed.
7.When the Rosetta Stone was carved.
8.When the Great Pyramids of Giza were built

Just how big is the school compared to the Great Pyramid of Giza

The blog posting before has your measurements of the school

Length of school (without Gym) is 95.4m
Width of School (avg. out) 49.6m

Area of School, W X L= 95.4X49.6=4731.84 M sq.

Great Pyramid of Giza is 440 Cubits, which is 230.35m
230.35X230.35=53061.12m sq.

53061.12/4731.84  11.2 Bruce schools to equal the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Volume = Area times Height

Bruce 4731.84X5=23659.2m cubed

Giza 53061.12X146.7/3=2594688.29m cubed

2594688.29m cubed/23659.2m cubed = 110 Bruce Schools fitting inside the space of the Pyramid

Egyptian Gods

You are stuck in a museum. To get out, you need to know something about Egyptian Gods. Go to this link to get the vital information about Egyptian Gods you will need for survival, then click on the challenge tab. Show the teacher that you have survived. 

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built some 4,500 years ago, and for nearly 4,000 years was the tallest building in the World.  How big is our school compared to this fabled structure? See how many of the following ways to compare size you can complete.

The size of the Great Pyramid of Giza can be found from this Link.   Remember to show your work!

1.One way to compare is to measure the base area of Bruce and the Great Pyramid. Area is Width X Length

2.Another Way to measure is to compare the heights of the two structures. No climbing the school to find the height!!! Have someone stand beside the school estimate how many of them it would take to reach the top of the school.

3. Perhaps the most accurate way to measure the size is by comparing the volume.  Width X Length X Height/ gives us the volume of Bruce Middle School. The volume of a pyramid is  Width X Length X Height /3.


Blog your answers below

More Pyramids

Don't forget to peruse the links provided above. There was much more to the pyramids than a huge mass of blocks.




Here is a great link about pyramids. Read the story, take the challenge. Now create a test.
1. Have a question on why the pyramids were built, this would be important.
2. Have at least 2 questions on how the pyramids were built.
3. Think of another question
4. Finally, have a question about the complex that surrounds the Khufu's Pyramid, which is something that archeologists have been finding more about in recent years.
Blog the questions and the answers below. We will be using this information in further classes.

Pyramids

The class overwhelming wanted to learn about pyramids, so here we go.

Step Pyramids, oldest

Pyramids from St. James-Assiniboia School Division