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Educing Free King Tut & Ancient Egypt Mini Unit

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My son is taking a Geography class this year at our co-op. I saw this and thought it would be a great addition to the study of Egypt. I will be looking out for things like this to match the 15 countries we will study.

King Tut Mini Unit - Educents

Students LOVE to learn about King Tut and Ancient Egypt! Download a FREE lesson for kids about Ancient Egypt and jump into King Tut’s history! The freebie has several activities included in this pack, including reading comprehension, math review, map skills, and timeline practice, so there are a multiple ways to use them.

Hieroglyphics Math

King Tut Mini Unit - Educents

Use these fun pages to practice place value and/or addition and subtraction skills! Page 12 of the King Tut Mini-Unit Freebie asks students use the symbols to determine the number. The following page goes a step further and asks students add or subtract numbers.

Fun facts about Ancient Egypt:

  • The Egyptian alphabet contained more than 700 hieroglyphs!
  • Egyptians believed cats were a sacred animal and having a pet cat would bring a household good luck.
  • Ancient Egyptians invented pens, toothpaste, and a game very similar to bowling.

More Ancient Egypt resources:

Mini Bio: King Tut – Here’s a mini bio about King Tut to go with your mini unit!

Ancient Egypt Lapbook – Study interesting facts about the discovery of hieroglyphic writing, the Rosetta Stone, the great King Tutankhamun, the lovely Cleopatra and more.

Recipes From Egypt – Delight your little cooks with two authentic and easy-to-make recipes from Egypt: Tameya (the original veggie burger), and Basboosa (Semolina cake with honey and lemon).

My Book About Egypt – My Book About Egypt takes elementary students to the cities of Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, and Giza.

 

King Tut Mini Unit - Educents

Want free lessons for kids about Ancient Egypt?

Download the King Tut Mini-Unit Freebie on Educents!

http://www.educents.com/king-tut-mini-unit.html

Planning My Homeschool Year 2015-16: Course Descriptions

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Course Descriptions. That is the next step in my planning process.

What are course descriptions? Well, they are exactly that: a description of the course you are requiring your child to take.  I belong to a PSP(private satellite program) which requires families to fill out course descriptions for all children regardless of age. I find that these are most important in high school.

What is included in a course description:

  • Name of student, Grade, dates the course is happening and how many credits.
  • Course name, description and goals of the class.
  • Curriculum
  • Grading for the class
  • Hours allotted

For example: I am doing a Home Economics class this year for Sewing. The course name would say Home Economics-Sewing Module. I am assigning 1 Credit for this module. That is 15 hours total. In my course description and goals, I outline what I expect to happen in those 15 hours.

For example:

  • demonstrate ability to thread a needle
  • demonstrate ability to sew a button
  • learn to repair a small rip/seam
  • take a 3 hour Beginner Sewing class at Joann’s
  • take private lessons from a sewing teacher for the remaining 12 hours and learn how to use her machine to : repair seams, rips, repurpose items, clothing construction and more.

In the curriculum area, I would write “teacher created”. I don’t know what Joann’s uses or the private teacher.

How I am going to grade this course is simple: participation, demonstration of the skills above and completion of at least 2 projects.

I have found a great resource on line. The homescholar.com is amazing. Here is an example of a course description of American History.

I have also shared some great books on previous posts and here they are again:

Senior High: A Home-Designed Form + U+ La by Barbara Shelton

The High School Handbook by Mary Schofield

I create a course description for all the courses my children are taking. This helps me to get focused on what is the purpose of the course. As I mentioned before, it’s a requirement for me, but even if it wasn’t it is great record keeping and proof of coursework.

At the end of the course, I add when the class was completed and the grade. This goes in the Grade Portion. See Homescholar example.

Ligia

Planning My Homeschool Year 2015-16: 10th Grade Curriculum Choices

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10th/11th Course of Study

This year most of the courses are offered through our Homeschool co-op or Landry Academy.

US History- This will be a co-op class. The teacher is using American History: Observations and Assessments for Creation to Today by James Stobaugh for the Co-op class. Along with that, those who are ready will try and pass the CLEP test.

American Literature-This will also be a co-op class. The teacher will be creating the class syllabus, so I am waiting for that list. But this will also have the option of doing CLEP testing at the end.

Personal Finance- This is also a co-op class. The teacher is using Dave Ramsey’s Homeschool Finance program. This will be a 1-semester course.

Thinking Like a Christian– Worldview study using the curriculum by that title. This is also a co-op class offered for one semester following the Finance class.

Writing A Novel in a Year- this course is offered through Landry Academy. This is a 2-semester course. I am excited about the possibilities for her.

Programming with Python- this course is a one-semester course offered by Landry Academy.

Drama- our co-op started the His Kids Drama Company and they will be putting on The Hobbit. She loved drama last year so she is continuing.

What’s left at home?

Grammar- I am going to try one more program in hopes that she will catch on. We are trying Jensen’s Grammar DVDs. She liked Jensen’s Punctuation and Format Writing so I am hoping she will like this.

CLEP study prep-originally my plan was that she would CLEP over the summer but we have gotten sidetracked (due to her Drama class, camps, etc). So now I think I will have her chose one CLEP to work on until she is ready to take the test.

Here are the following CLEPS she will work towards:

Analyzing Literature

American Govt

Biology

Spanish