(9-22-09) Earliest Civilizations using World Map Exercise

As an application exercise students will participate in a mapping exercise in which they use a blank world map that only has the land and water forms as "markers". Students will then trace in the major rivers that played a key role in all of the earliest civilizations. After tracing the key rivers students will then attatch the early civilization. At this point student will be familiar with the role that rivers played in allowing for modern civilization to explode. Using their text and a Discovery Education streaming video students will the provide the key characteristics that make each civilization unique. This is called "The C-Town Lowdown". The civilizations that the students will be accountable for are the Kingdoms of the Nile, The Kingdoms of the Fertile Crescent, The Kingdoms of Ancient India, and those of early China.