2nd grade lesson Content Areas: Social Studies, Technology, Art, and Language Arts
The following link: artwork.http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/ancient/egypt.htm is a great resource for teachers to use that includes a brief description of the history of Ancient Egypt.
As far as my lesson goes, I would begin by showing the students where Egypt is located on the map. Next, I would create a word web on the board and tell the students that we will be recording information on our web throughout the showing of a video. (Since this lesson is supposed to focus on artwork, I would make sure that I find a video that includes some examples of Egyptian artwork.) I would stop the video at certain parts so we could discuss what we saw and record the information on our word web to describe some things about Egypt. After watching the video, I would go into more depth about some of the things that we wrote on our word web. (I would especially focus on the artwork section of our word web.) After the discussion, I would show students some more examples of artwork found on the ArtNC site. For example, this site includes a picture of the Coffin of Djed Mut and Amunred and a model boat with figures (Middle Kingdom, XII-XIII Dynasty). http://ncmoa.org/artnc/searchresults.php We would discuss the characteristics of each piece of artwork and compare it to our personal artwork. I would use a Venn Diagram to show the similarities and differences of Egyptian artwork to our "elementary" artwork. The ArtNC site also provides a great description of each work of art. It includes communication and comprehension strategies for teachers to use as well. As a final fun activity for Egyptian artwork, I would provide each child a printout of hieroglyphics and have them write their name. (My students this year really enjoyed writing/drawing their names using hieroglyphics.)
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