Motivational Strategies

Theme Immersion Strategies

The following theme immersion strategies can be used to reach each child’s personal strengths and abilities.  These are suggestions to help you engage your students.  They are labeled according to the specific “multiple intelligences”.

1.    Have a representative from the Egyptian Embassy visit your classroom to give information about the country. (Interpersonal)

2.    View the video – Ancient Egypt (visual/spatial)

3.    Take a field trip to the your local Natural History Museum and examine the Egyptian display. (naturalist, interpersonal, bodily kinesthetic, visual/spatial)

4.    View the video – Pyramid based on David Macaulay’s book.  (visual/ spatial, math/logical)

5.    Read aloud The Egypt Game. (verbal/linguistic)

6.    Take a field trip to a local archeological dig. (naturalist, interpersonal, bodily kinesthetic, visual/spatial).

7.    Introduce students to Egyptian folk dancing. (musical, bodily kinesthetic)

8.    Ask the music teacher to introduce students to Egyptian folk music and folk songs. (musical)

9.    Make an authentic Egyptian meal. (bodily kinesthetic, math/logical, visual/spatial, interpersonal)

10.     Make an Egyptian pectoral (jeweled collar).  This activity is found in Make It Work! Ancient Egypt Activity Book. (bodily kinesthetic, math/logical, visual/spatial, naturalist)

11.     Have a spokesperson come in and talk about the mummification process.  (interpersonal, naturalist, verbal/linguistic)

12.     Have students complete a K-W-L chart about Egypt. (verbal/linguistic, intrapersonal).

13.     Have students partner up and measure each other to create their own sarcophagus. (math/logical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal)

14.     Make a flipbook about the Egyptian Pharoahs. (verbal/linguistic, visual/spatial)

15.     Make a classroom graph recording the annual temperature and rainfall of Egypt. (math/logical, visual/spatial, interpersonal)

16.     Read the book Wrapped for Eternity: The Story of the Egyptian Mummy by Mildred M. Pace. (verbal/linguistic)

17.     Create a journal writing telling how you feel about studying Egypt. (intrapersonal, verbal/linguistic)

18. Create a classroom cartouche. The cartouche is an official Egyptian nameplate.  Use symbols from The Rosetta Stone. (interpersonal, verbal/linguistic, math/logical, visual/spatial).

Personal Relevance Questions

**The following questions are ideas you can use to help

students gain a personal interest in this unit.  Use these questions as a guideline to generate further questions and help them personally connect to the unit.

1.  Do you know what the pyramids were made from?

2.  Why do you think the Nile River was important to the Egyptians?

3.  How do you think the Egyptians mummified their dead?

4.  Are you excited about using the Internet throughout this project?

5.  What do you think the word pharaoh means?

6.  What do you know about ancient Egypt?

7.  What do you think you would need to ask a travel agent about

     before making travel plans to Egypt?

8.  What would you like to learn about Egypt?

9.  What do you think your life would be like if you lived in Ancient

     Egyptian times?