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= Planning 1.) Knowledge Gaining - The students will gain knowledge on the Ancient Egyptians and their class system along with their everyday life. This will be done in several differnt ways, first I will have large print outs of Egypt, with all of the major cities and rivers, not labeled, on each of the students desk. This same hand out will be enlarged and put on the smart board as well so the teacher and students are able to point out different important locations in Egypt. The students will become familiar with Egypt and where it is located and the many unique features that Egypt has to offer. Next, the students will visit a fun and interactive website that will allow the students to read about egypt and partake in fun activities. Within each paragraph of the website there are vocabulary words that are actual links that go to more information on that particular topic. The website will also discuss the mummification process. Then the students will be taking the information that they are learning from the website to answer quesions in a blog. Lastly, the students will reply to their classmates blogs and create an essay explaing what social class they would chose to be in if they live in ancient Egypt.

2.) Knowledge organizing - The students will review the given websites and keep notes for the blog activity. Once they have read through the entire website they will be able to post their responce to the blog that I have created. The students need to make sure that they are reading through the whole website and taking notes because they will have to have a good grasp on the information for this activity. Instead of taking notes with a pen and a paper they will be putting their notes on their own wiki's. Each student will have a wiki page to themselves for organization of all of the new material.

3.) Knowledge sharing - The students will reply to the blog posting that I created with ten questions and 2 short essay.The first essay will only be a paragraph long about what social order they would be in if they had to choose. In this paragraph they will have to show knowldge of their chosen class. They will get this informaion of the website that they are to explore before hand. Their fellow students will be able to see their essays so they can read what social class each classmate chose. The students will also be responsible for including a second essay about why they think Egypt is different today and what technology may have helped this transformation. This essay wiki take place on their wiki, rather than their blog. _

Preparation

1.) The teacher will have to create two wiki's, one for the students to be able to access this project and another one for their not taking. 2.) The teacher will also have to create a blog for the students to reply to the teacher post.