Grade 1 - Early world Civilizations

Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 3B|The Religion of Babylon 67

Note: Extensions may have activity options which exceed the

time allocated for this part of the lesson. To remain within the time

period allocated for this portion of the lesson, you will need to

make conscious choices about which activities to include based

on the needs of your students.

Extensions 20 minutes

Early World Civilizations Chart 5 minutes

Farming Cities Writing Leaders Religion

Mesopotamia Image Card 1 (Farming) Image Card 2 (Babylon) Image Card 3 (Cuneiform) Image Card 4 (Hammurabi) Image Card 5 (Ziggurat)

Ancient Egypt

Show students Image Card 5 (Ziggurat). Talk about the Image

Card, and have students share what they learned from the read-

aloud about ziggurats and religion in Mesopotamia. Tell students

that you are going to place the Image Card in the Religion

column on the Civilizations Chart to help them remember that the

Mesopotamians had a polytheistic religion.

Interactive Illustrations 15 minutes

• Explain to students that they will all get to be authors and
  illustrators in the next activity. Ask if they know what authors
  and illustrators do.


• Pair students with a partner. Give every student a sheet of paper
  folded in half.


• Explain the instructions to students:

The Religion of Babylon

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