Invite your middle- and upper-grade students to learn more about Egypt's magnificent pyramids online. Before you begin, distribute the CyberHunt Reproducible, below. Then send students to www.scholastic.com/cyberhuntkids or directly to the interactive hunt.

1. Tombs. Body.
2. Embalmed. Sarcophagus (coffin).
3. Ramps. Sledges.
4. Djoser (or Zozer).
5. A red granite sarcophagus.
6. Solar boat.
7. They found female skeletons (that show evidence of carrying heavy stone for long periods.)
8. It was sealed from the inside; robbers had no way to get the treasure, etc. (Answers will vary.)

http://touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramids.htm
Use this site's photos and intricate diagrams to show students how Egypt's pyramids were built. Then invite them to design their own unique pyramids. Have students plan, measure, draw, and label their pyramid designs on graph paper.

www.guardians.net/hawass/index.htm
After learning about Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities — which explores and protects the pyramids — have students imagine they are Egyptologists. Then have teams plan and participate in a debate on whether pyramids should be open to tourists and whether mummies should be displayed in museums.

http://egyptphoto.ncf.ca/
Share with students the recent pyramid photos from this site to give them an idea of what it would be like to tour Egypt today. Then ask each child to create a postcard using printouts of the photos and write an imaginary account of a trip to Egypt on the back. Display on a pyramid-shaped bulletin board.

 
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Gail Skroback Hennessey (www.gailhennessey.com) teaches sixth-grade social studies at Harpursville Central Middle School in Harpursville, New York.
 
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