Students work together to design an Egyptian funerary barge. They discover the importance of the afterlife to Egyptians. They create their boat and share their design with the class. They compare and contrast the technology of Ancient...

Fourth graders identify cemeteries as a source of information for historical research. They consider the types of information cemeteries can provide, review local headstones and create a database of the collected knowledge.

Second graders create their own ending to a story concerning fire safety. After watching the film, "Frances the Firefly", 2nd graders create a drawing of their own ending to the film. They practice a variety of ways to say no when...

Third graders discuss times when learning has been fun and when it hasn't. They imagine that the are going for a ride in an aeroplane. Students imagine that they are looking through the window at the land below, they see the uneven shape...

This lesson plan template aligns with the TechnoMummy curriculum and resources, but includes great ideas to use without the curriculum. During this instructional activity on Ancient Egypt, students will become Egyptologists and learn...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

This article discusses the study of oxygen isotopes in the teeth of Oetzi, the 5,200 year mummy found in the Tyrolean Alps, as a way of identifying where the man had probably lived. Includes map of location of the body upon death.

Five pieces of cartonnage ornament the bandages of this mummy. The first piece forms the gilded mask. On the chest, a cartonnage pectoral is decorated with a scarab. On the abdomen, a protector goddess holds the two feathers of Maat.

Students can explore this iconic museum with exhibits dedicated to everything from Egyptian mummies to the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.

Take a tour through the Louvre and discover examples of art depicting daily life in ancient Egypt during the time of the pharoahs. Read descriptions of the scenes and click to learn more about the details of the artwork itself. A very...

The funerary shawabti is a statuette intended to perform work in place of the deceased in the underworld. The shawabti of Sennedjem is in the form of a mummy with a long black wig, a necklace, and two baskets slung over his shoulders.

This statue represents Isis kneeling and holding on her lap a small figure of the mummy of Osiris on a rectangular tablet.