Hey Grade 5's!To end our Early Civilizations unit, you will each be creating your own time capsule. In it you may place two artifacts - including anything from an ancient map that you have made, to journal entries of someone from an early civilization, or an ancient myth you have composed, or even an ancient artifact that you have constructed!
You will choose your two favourite civilizations that we have studied in class and provide a brief description of the government, social needs, values and beliefs, technological advances, etc for both. You must also explain the items you have chosen for your capsule, and state why they best represent each civilization.
Here are some terrific websites for researching early civilizations that will help you summarize the key features of your chosen civilizations, and to give you ideas for artifacts to place in your capsule:
Ancient Egypt http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/en/History/History.aspx
Ancient Greece http://members.aol.com/donnclass/Greeklife.html
Ancient Rome http://members.aol.com/donnclass/Romelife.html
Ancient Civilizations http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/
The specific Social Studies expectations that this activity focuses on are:
-Describe the physical features and climate of two or more regions where early civilizations developed
-Explain how two or more early civilizations shaped and used the environment to meet their physical needs for food, homes, clothing, and health
-Compare how two or more early civilizations were governed
-Outline how social needs were met in two or more early civilizations
-Identify important values and beliefs in two or more early civilizations and describe how they affected daily life
-Identify some scientific and technological advances made by two or more early civilizations
-Graphic taken from http://www.earthcapsule.com/content/images/history_pyr.jpg
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