Week 5

 

Week 5 Card 1 Third Dynasty of Ur

  • Mesopotomia
  • Akkadian Empire – were prosperous and did not protect themselves
  • Gutians  — savages who took over from the Akkadians and Sumerians
    • Gutians destroyed the land, leading to droughts
  • 300 years later, Sumerian Utu-Hengal King of Uruk overthrew the Gutians
  • Ur-Nammu seized power and launched Sumeria into a new empire.
    • restored roads that had been destroyed by the Gutians
    • built ziggurates
    • law code
    • empire only lasted 100 years
  • Amorites began to attack
    • Amorites founded the city of Babylon

Week 5 Card 2  Ziggurats

  • Ur Nammu, started the building project
  • Solar alignments
    • it was oriented toward the Summer Solstice Sunrise
  • Dedicated to the moon

Week 5 Card 3 Epic of Gilgamesh

Science: Egg dissection

 

 

Supplies:

  • 1 Egg
  • Plastic Knife
  • Yellow Plastic Egg Shell
  • Plastic Wrap
  • Yarn
  • Markers
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Instructions:

  1. Discuss the parts of an egg, why they are important, and other facts about eggs.
  2. Show the parts of the egg to the students.
  3. Take the paper plates and have the students cut out the “shell” by drawing an egg shape onto the foam board.
  4. Take the plastic wrap and the teacher or the student cut an oval out and place it onto the paper plate shell to represent the albumen.
  5. Glue the yellow egg half or “yolk” of the egg towards the center of the egg.
  6. Make a wave out of the yarn to represent the chalaza and glue it to the albumen.
  7. Give each student a pod off of the bubble wrap to represent the air cell of the egg and glue it to the larger half, or bottom of the egg.
  8. Have the students use the markers and make a dot at the top of the plastic egg yolk to represent the germinal disc.

Art: Pottery and Cuneiform

Supplies:

  • Potatoes
  • Clay — You will need to use your clay supply for another project as well. Please give students a small amount of clay for this activity.
  • Plastic Knives
  • Styrofoam Trays
  • Rolling Pins

Instructions:

  • Ask students to write their name on the styrofoam plate.
  • Give each child a half of a potato and a plastic knife.
  • Explain that they can use multiple sides of their potatoes to carve shapes.
  • Show students how to cut out shapes as well as cutting into the potato.
  • Once they have made a shape, ask students to roll out their clay and use their potato to press the shape into the clay.
  • Students can cut off a shape they no longer need and start fresh, or they can make slices out of the potato for each shape.
  • Encourage some students to make a cylinder of shapes around their potato and roll it.  This is an ancient Sumerian technique.
  • Students can re-roll their clay multiple times.