Transcript Mesopotamia Project - Mrs. Moore`s 4th Grade Class Blog

Mesopotamia Project
Mrs. Moser
Task 1
My Mesopotamia Project
 Create a title page
Example 
World History
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Chateau Estates
Task 2
It happened first in Mesopotamia
Go to this website to read about the “firsts” in Mesopotamia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_2955000/2955531.stm
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Plow
Irrigation
Dikes
Cuneiform
Canals
12 month calendar
 Read the article about firsts in Mesopotamia
 Select 2 and design a visual that represents them
Task 3 Cuneiform
Go to this website and read the story
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/story/sto_set.html
Answer the Questions below:
1. What time period did people start to record the amounts of different crops?
2. Draw the symbol for barley.
3. What was usually next to the barley sign?
4. What is the Sumerian word for fig cakes?
5. Beside business and trade, what was cuneiform used for?
6. Cuneiform script was used to write what other languages?
7. Draw the sign for the ox c.600.
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Task 5 The Code of Hammurabi
http://mesopotamiaprojectist.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/task-5/
 Go to the website
 Create a page titled “The Code of Hammurabi”.
 On the Code of Hammurabi page are the laws of Hammurabi
as translated from cuneiform.
 Select four laws and write them out.
 After each law, explain in your own words what the law means
in today’s world.
 Do you know if there are simliar laws?
Task 6 – Vocabulary Exercises
 Create a page titled “Vocabulary Exercises”
 Visit this website
http://mesopotamiaprojectist.wordpress.com/important-vocabulary/
 Copy the vocabulary words onto the page
Task 7 – Ziggurats
 Go to ziggurats at the British Museum.
 Write a one page, multi-pargraph report on ziggurats.
Include the following information 1. Explain what a ziggurat is.
2. How and why they were built
3. How does the building function in the culture.
How does it effect daily life?
4. Famous ziggurats
Ziggurat Page 2
 Go to this website:
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats/home_set.html
 Draw and label a ziggurat
 Play the challenge game.
 At the bottom of your ziggurat drawing, explain what
you learned when you played the challenge game.
Task 8 – Astronomers
 Go research astronomers at the British Museum.
 Write a one page, multiparagraph report on the astronomers
in Mesopotamia. Include the following information:
1. Who is Aplum?
2. What was Aplum’s job and what did he learn from his
job?
3. Why was his job important to Babylonians?
4. What did Aplum need to do to add a month to the
calendar?
5. Did the King accept the extra month?
Astronomers Page 2
 Explore some of the texts of the scribes of Enuma Anu
Enlil.
 Describe what you learned in a paragraph. Play the
challenge game.
 Explaine what you learned from the game.
Task 9 – Ancient Sumerian Society
 Visit these websites:
Classes of PeopleSumerian Society
Daily Life
Religion
Social Classes
Write a one page, multiparagraph report on their
society. Include the following information:
1. Description of their Daily Life
2. Description of the social classes – Describe each class.
This section could be several paragraphs.
3. Describe their religion.
Task 10 - Map
Find a map of ancient Mesopotamia and one that is current.
Do your best to redraw this map (don’t trace). Redraw the outlines of the current
nations that occupy the area and label them. Label the major rivers, lakes,
mountains, and other major geographical places, including oceans and seas.
Label the capital cities of the nations with a star next to them.
Using a colored pencil, outline and fill in the area that used to be ancient
Mesopotamia over the modern day map. Label the civilizations that were there.
Label the major cities of these civilizations with a dot next to them.
Color in the oceans and other water sources with blue. Make the land area
green.
Label this “The Middle East, Then and Now” and include it with your packet.