Lesson Plan: Virtual Museum

Daily Life in Ancient Times: Israel, Egypt, Jordan

Lesson Plan created by: Shannon Houtrouw, Instructor of Computer Science and Math

Kalamazoo Area Math Science Center (KAMSC), Kalamazoo, Michigan

shoutrouw@kamsc.k12.mi.us (269) 337-0010 (office)

NEH Summer Institute for Teachers 2009: “Daily Life in Ancient Times: Archaeology of Israel and Jordan”

Description: Students will collectively create a virtual museum of Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Each will be given a unique component related to this general topic. Afterwards the work of the students will be electronically linked together to form a website of information and ‘artifacts’ of various sites pertaining to life in ancient times in these countries. This will include relevant photos of places, excavations, monuments, artifacts and discoveries as well as information about the history, cultures, languages, religions, and significant discoveries and their relevance. We will also include information about the discipline known as archaeology and information about related topics such as paleontology, anthropology, zoo-archaeology and paleozoology, paleobotany and archaeobotany, the study of pottery and its relevance to archaeology, and other disciplines. The museum will also include famous archaeologists from these areas and consider their contributions.

Target Group: 75-80 sophomores taking computer science at the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center, split into 3 classes of about 25-26 each.

Prerequisites: This will be a 4th quarter activity but the initial lesson can be done at any time during the year. The students will have already studied the C++ programming language. But until we get to Javascript (next unit), they will not require any programming skill for this initial unit. A certain degree of patience is recommended however.

Preliminary Activities:

Stimulate further interest in the area by showing clips from

James Bond – The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Egypt: Cairo, Giza, Luxor, Karnak
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1978)—Walking through Petra in Jordan
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade—Petra, Jordan: The Siq, the Treasury
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen—Petra and the Pyramids
Masada (1981 miniseries, Peter O’Toole, Peter Strauss)
Ben Hur (Charleton Heston, 2nd Temple Period)
Kingdom of Heaven (Orlando Bloom, Crusades Period)
Other possibilities: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mummy, 10 Commandments??

Present PowerPoint on my own June 2009 Trip to Israel, Jordan and Egypt
Show a teacher-created sample of a web page that has each of the features that will be required of the students when they do theirs.
Unit on Introduction to Web Page Design Using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)—Students will study the HTML codes that they will need to design a basic webpage
Students need to learn web design and HTML vocabulary, and there will be an early quiz over this information.
Introduce students to archaeology vocabulary. There will be an early quiz over this info too.

Web Design: Virtual Museum

Daily Life in Ancient Times: Israel, Jordan, Egypt

Using your assigned topic, you need to design a professional looking web page that makes appropriate use of all the HTML codes that we have studied up to this point. These include but are not limited to

<html> <head> <body> <title> <h1> … <h6> <a href >

<center> <right> 

<img src> <ul>, <ol> and <li> , , and 

ALL OF THE CODES LISTED ABOVE MUST BE USED APPROPRIATELY IN YOUR PAGE.

A miniature of your KAMSC photo must be included in your webpage, particularly when you credit yourself as the author of that site.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you include an active link back to the Virtual Museum Home Page. We will combine all the student web sites into one site.

Include an unordered list (bullets) of links or listed relevant information.

Include an ordered list (numbers) of links or relevant information, but not the same as your unordered list.

Use a text editor like NotePad, SimpleText, CreaText or a software development text Editor like CodeWarrior to create your web page HTML file. Make sure to save it with either a .htm or .html file extension or it won’t be valid. Do NOT use Microsoft Word to edit your text. That will screw it up in ways you don’t even want to think about.

YOU MAY NOT USE A WEB DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION TOOL FOR ANY OF THIS.

PROOF READ! I HAIT WEBB PAIGES WIT MISSSPELINGS!

Material in future units:

Eventually, the following must also be included in your web page:

Javascript 1 – add 4 to 12 thematically grouped photos that are set to alternate where each photo takes turns being displayed for 2 to 4 seconds.
Javascript 2 - provide 4 to 12 thematically grouped photos that change alternately when clicked
Tables (rows, colomns, column headers)
Imbedded video clips related to your page topic
Link and visitor link colors
Imbedded music clips
Background links

The class with the best site will win an all expenses paid trip to the Middle East –--Or— a Middle Eastern style classroom snack—whichever is cheaper.

Individual Assignments: Virtual Museum

Daily Life in Ancient Times: Israel, Jordan, Egypt

Archaeologists

Sir Flinders Petrie

William F. Albright

Kathleen Kenyon

Sigfried Horn

Nelson Glueck

Yigael Yadin

Howard Carter

Tools of Archaeology

Dating methods used by archaeologists

Archaeology and Pottery

Archaeology and Botany and Dendro-chronology

Archaeology and Zoology and human bones and teeth

Israel

Tel Jericho/Dead Sea

Tel Megiddo/Jezreel

Tel Beth Shean (Canaanites/Philistines/Romans)

Old Jerusalem/City of David/Mt. Zion/The Cardo/Hezekiah Tunnel/Hezekiah Wall

Masada/Herod/Zealots/Mass Suicide

Caesarea Maritima /Herod/Harbor/Amphitheater/Pilate Inscription/Hippodrome

Bethesda

Capernaum/Peter’s House/Synagogue of Caperanum

Mt. Carmel/Tel Dor

Jerusalem/Wall Ramparts

Jerusalem/Hezekiah’s Water Tunnel/Gihon Spring/Siloam Pool/Ophel Hill

Israel Museum/Shrine of the Book/Jerusalem Scale Model

Qumran/Essenes(?)/Dead Sea Scrolls/Shrine of the Book (Jerusalem)

Temple Mount/Western Wall/Herod & 2nd Temple

Dome of the Rock/Mt. Moriah/Mohammad/El Aksa Mosque

Sea of Galilee/1st Century Boat/Mount of Beatitudes

Mt. Tabor—Transfiguration Church

Bethlehem—Church of the Nativity

Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Mount of Olives/Garden of Gethsemane

Jordan

Madaba Plains Project (Hesban, Jalul, Umayri)

Tall-Madaba/The Madaba Map/ St. George’s Church

Petra/Selah/The Siq/The Treasury(Nabateans, Edomites)/Um El Biyara/Seir

Mt. Nebo/Moabites/King Mesha/Mesha Stele (a.k.a. Moabite Stone)

Egypt

Cairo—Pyramids of Giza/Sphinx/Khufu (Cheops)/Khafre (Chephren)/Menkure (Mycerinus)

Stepped Pyramid/Saqqara/Mastaba of Ti/Serapeum/Other Pyramids

King Tutankhamen/Tomb #62/Treasure

Queens: Hatshepsut (Female Pharaoh)/Nefertiri/Nefertiti/Others

Valley of the Kings (and Queens)/ Mummies of the Pharaohs

Nile River/Nile Delta/Goshen/Upper Nile/Lower Nile

Temple of Karnak/Temple of Luxor

Ramses II/Ramesseum

Memphis/Tanis/Zoan/Shishak

Name/Group _____________________________________/____________

HTML Quiz: Beginning Web Page Design – Part 1

What does HTML stand for? __________________________________________________________

What does URL stand for? ____________________________________________________________

What does ISP stand for? ____________________________________________________________

Give an example of a comment tag: ______________________________________________________

Create a title tag using your first name: ___________________________________________________

Which tag would be used for the smallest header? _________________

Give 2 valid picture file extensions: ____________ and ______________

What tag is used to create links to other web pages? ___________________________________

Identify each: _______________________ _________________________

<li> _______________________ __________________________

What’s the difference between the <ol> and <ul> tags? (Give a full explanation of all tags involved)

__________________________________________________________________________________