Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in ancient Egypt? Check out my Awesome Egyptians Unit Study, and discover some awesome Egyptian secrets (like why some pharaohs had to wear false beards)!
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Awesome Egyptians {Horrible Histories} by Terry Deary
Awesome Egyptians by Terry Deary discusses how Awesome Egyptians lived 5,000 years ago. We learned everything from the food they ate (including some revolting recipes for sweets), how they built pyramids, and how they mummified their dead!
Suggested Schedule
We try to have a light workload on Fridays, so we read the entire book in just four days. This is the reading schedule we followed:
- 1st Day- Read pages 5-35
- 2nd Day- Read pages 36-65
- 3rd Day- Read pages 66-96
- 4th Day- Read pages 97-128
- 5th Day- Complete quiz on pages 129-134
If you are reading this book with younger students you may want to split the reading up over two weeks rather than one. My children are 11 and 13, and have no trouble sitting through our daily reading.
Extras…
This year I am using the whole Horrible Histories set with Julia and Jack as our core history curriculum. As I am sure you have already figured out these books are not a curriculum on their own, so I will be adding extra materials to our schedule to take our learning a step further. Want to join in on the fun? Here is everything I added in this week:
Books
In addition to Awesome Egyptians, we also read:
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!: Disgusting Things You’d Rather Not Know by David Stewart
- National Geographic Kids Everything Ancient Egypt: Dit Into a Treasure Trove of Facts, Photos, and Fun by Crispin Boyer
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder!: A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have by Jacqueline Morley
- Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
Videos
This week we watched Horrible Histories, Season 1 Episode 3 on Prime Video. You may notice that the episodes do not focus on one Horrible Histories book at a time. It jumps around between the different eras, and my children don’t seem to mind that. During this week’s episode we watched an Egyptian try to save money on mummification… Does a mummy really need his arms?
We also watched The Pyramid Code, Season 1 Episode 1. In this docuseries we got an up close look at real some pyramids and other Egyptian artifacts. This documentary does a great job showing how pyramids defer from each other, and highlights the red, black, and white pyramids in Dahshur.
Activities
I had big plans to do a number of activities this week, but unfortunately life had other plans. Most of us came down with some kind of bug, and the hands-on learning was pushed to the side. However, here are some fun ideas to add to your plans if you are lucky enough to not be sick during this unit (ha):
- Mummify apples
- Build an edible pyramid
- Create an Egyptian Canopic Jar from a Pringles can and clay
- Make papyrus and write in hieroglyphics
- Make “Mummy Dogs” (think pigs in a blanket, but wrap the hotdog like a mummy)
Thank you for checking out my Awesome Egyptians Unit Study…
We have also completed the following Horrible Histories Unit Studies:
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