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    Lesson: Geography of Egypt

    VA SOLs:

    2.4: The student will develop map skills by a) locating Egypt on world maps

    2.5: The student will develop map skills by b) locating the Nile River

    Learning Objectives

    Students will:

    Locate Egypt on map on the continent of Africa

    Compare map of Ancient Egypt to modern Egypt

    Locate the Nile River, Cairo, Giza, the Pyramids, Sahara Desert, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea

    Identify the climate and land of Egypt

    Materials and Advanced Preparation

    Google Earth using smartboard

    Overhead/smartboard map of Ancient Egypt - Egypt poster set, Melissa Matusevich

    Handout of ancient Egypt map for students to label and keep in their Egypt folder

    Crayons, markers

    Teaching and Learning Sequence

    Introduction/Anticipatory Set

    Tell children that today they are going to learn about where Egypt is located and what the

    climate and land is like

    -Ask children what climate means

    Show children the beginning Google Earth Image using smart-board

    -Students are familiar with Google Earth from previous study

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    -Remind students that Google Earth lets us navigate anywhere around the earth and

    shows real pictures that have been taken from space-satellite images.

    Lesson Development

    Locate North America as a starting point. Show Richmond, VA.

    Move from Richmond, VA to modern day Egypt on Google Earth

    -Ask students what continent Egypt is in

    -Ask students how long they think it would take to get there

    - calculate using Google Earth navigation/directions

    Zoom in so that students can see Egypt and get a good picture of the shape, show boarders

    -Ask students what they see

    - Talk about the Nile River, show on Google Earth

    -Talk about the colors of the map

    - what is the blue

    - what do they think the brown represents all, show the Sahara Desert

    -what kind of land do they think Egypt is

    Next using Google Earth on smart-board:

    -locate the Nile River, Sahara Desert, Giza, Cairo, Pyramids, Sphinx, Red Sea,

    Mediterranean Sea

    Discuss the climate and land

    -Ask students what they think the climate is like

    -Dene that the weather is hot and dry - Desert

    Closure

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    Pass out the map of ancient Egypt

    -Have students label and color the map

    -Nile River, Cairo, Giza, the Pyramids, the Sahara, the Mediterranean Sea, and the

    Red Sea.

    -Students may refer to the projected may of Egypt

    Have students write what they learned today on their KWL chart

    Instruct students to put the nished map into their folder

    Assessment

    Formative

    Assess students participation in the discussion about the geography of Egypt

    - do the contribute to the discussion

    Summative

    Check each students map to see that they have correctly identied the Nile River, Cairo, Giza,

    the Pyramids, the Sahara, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea.