Ancient Egypt Name/Class:

Medicine: The Egyptians had advanced knowledge of the human body, treated illnesses, prescribed medicines, set broken bones, and performed surgery.

Astronomy: The Ancient Egyptians created the first calendar that divided the year into 365 days. The Egyptian solar-year calendar is the basis of the calendar we use today.

Math: The Egyptians developed a number system based on 10 (similar to our decimal system).

Architecture and Engineering: The Ancient Egyptians excelled in working with stone and constructed gigantic pyramids (about 100 are still standing today!).

Art: The Egyptians were accomplished sculptors who created huge stone statues. On the stone walls of temples, tombs, and inside houses artists carved and painted colorful scenes from everyday life and nature. Egyptian artistic style stayed roughly the same for three thousand years! In their carvings and paintings people were shown with their heads and feet in profile and shoulders facing forward.

From the Book of the Dead

Do you think that being an artist or skilled craftsman was important to the people of Ancient Egypt? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fashion: Ancient Egyptians were very fashionable; they took a lot of pride in their appearance and keeping clean. Hairstyles would change depending on what was popular at the time; women wore hair extensions and perfume. Men and women wore makeup and

jewelry. In fact the Ancient Egyptians were amazing jewelers and despite grave robbers, many examples of jewelry have survived.

The presentation Egyptian Amulets

Jewelry was made out of copper, gold, silver, bones, shells, clay and glass beads, and colorful rocks and gemstones.

Everyone, even babies wore amulets____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Making and selling them was a major industry of the time.

Think about what you would create for your own amulet. Some Egyptian examples would be: a fish to protect the wearer from drowning, an amulet in the shape of a human heart to protect the heart, or a hippo for strength. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Clay hand-building techniques

1. Rolling clay into a ball

Clay that is rolled into a ball can then be flattened slightly, shaped or pinched, stacked or combined to make a more interesting shape.

2. Rolling clay into a rope or coil

Clay that is rolled into a coil can then be bent, curled, shaped or joined together to make a more interesting shape.

3. Clay with Texture

Tools can be used to “draw” into the clay to add texture. (Pretty much anything can be used as a tool)

4. Clay that is flattenedClay can be rolled or pressed flat thenshaped to make a more interesting shape . Press on top of a piece of paper and don’t press too thin or clay will get stuck to the table.

5. Joining pieces of clay together