Museum Exhibit Assignment

You and your group will create a museum exhibit and guided tour presentation about an important ancient civilization. People from all over will come to see this exhibit as part of our new Museum of Ancient Civilizations.

You must work together to prepare a planning sheet that tells how you will complete your museum display and have it approved by the museum curator (teacher).

The display will include:
* Completed research on the economy, beliefs, culture, clothing, hierarchy, food, homes, and technology for the civilization you are studying. You will need to include about one paragraph of information on each topic. Illustrations and charts or graphs would be good additions.
* One or two 3D artifacts that represent objects used in your civilization. For each artifact there should be a flow chart explaining the need it met, the available resources, the resulting technology, and an explanation of what we have today as a result of this artifact.
* A world map showing the approximate location of your civilization. A brief written explanation of how the location of your civilization affected the lives of the people living there in ancient times should be included with the map. Remember to consider how close to the equator the civilization is as well as its distance from major landforms and bodies of water.
* A storyboard of a myth that represents the beliefs of your civilization.
* A piece of art that tells the story of your group’s myth in some way.

The oral presentation must answer the following questions:
1) How did the natural environment (climate, landforms,and availability of water) affect the lives of the people in the civilization you are studying?
2) What were the physical and social needs of the people in your civilization?
3) How were the physical and social needs of the people in your civilization met? (Think about these questions to help you: What foods did they eat? What were their homes like? How were their homes made? How did they get from one place to another? Where did they gather? How did they worship? What were their traditions?)
4) How did the civilization you are studying affect the way we live in Canada today?