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:
- Discuss the parts of an egg, why they are important, and other facts about eggs.
- Show the parts of the egg to the students.
- Take the paper plates and have the students cut out the “shell” by drawing an egg shape onto the foam board.
- 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.
- Glue the yellow egg half or “yolk” of the egg towards the center of the egg.
- Make a wave out of the yarn to represent the chalaza and glue it to the albumen.
- 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.
- 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.