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Egyptian Culture
Produced by
Mary L. Truitt
A unit on exploring Egyptian culture using the Internet
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Most students know something about pyramids, mummies, and hieroglyphics, but they know little about Egyptian culture today. This unit teaches students how to use the Internet for their research to learn about contemporary Egyptian society. Topics may include the Egyptian school system, women in society, Egyptian pop culture, and a comparison of how Egyptian society acknowledges their deceased as compared to Mexican culture and the celebration of Dia de los Muertos.
Conducting searches on the Internet can be a frustrating, time-consuming task for students who have little experience with the World Wide Web. Exercises in this unit are designed to teach students how to conduct Internet searches efficiently. Students will familiarize themselves with at least five of the top Internet search engines and learn what it takes to use them. Activities where students complete reading exercises and tutorials from two web sites will help them to streamline their web searches in order to obtain the information pertinent to the lessons.
Some of the skills students will come away with are the ability to do Internet searches, format reports, analyze web sites, write essays, share essays with classmates, and write encouraging responses.
A slide show has also been developed for this unit.
This is one of 6 units from the 2004 Egypt Seminar held at the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
The PDF unit can be downloaded from this site below or from the UC Santa Barbara Center for Middle East Studies website from where the slide show and PowerPoint file can also be downloaded.
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