Day+2

=**Day 2 - Geography**=

Social Studies
Standards:
 * 6.2.1 - Locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.

Objectives:
 * Explain how the flooding of the Nile River benefited the ancient Egyptians.
 * Describe how Egyptians used the fertile land along the Nile.
 * Identify other natural resources the Egyptians used.
 * Language Objective: Understand and use geographic terms such as //fertile,// //delta,// and //silt//.

Into: Through:
 * Begin lesson by looking at map of ancient Egypt.
 * We could just use map in text book, or we could find one online.
 * possible maps:
 * http://www.franklin.ma.us/auto/upload/schools/horace/307-egmap.jpg
 * http://mag.rochester.edu/images/look/exhibitions/gillCenter/EgyptMapLarge.jpg
 * http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/EgyptMap.gif,
 * Discuss map: see what students notice, lead them to the colors and physical features, rivers, deserts, green vs. brown, etc.

Beyond:

Language Arts Connection
Start vocabulary books. Add words from this lesson. Drawings will be homework.

Science Connection
Standard 2.b. Students know rivers and streams are dynamic systems that erode, transport sediment, change course, and flood their banks in natural and recurring patterns.

See this lesson plan: [|The Ups and Downs of River Flooding]