Plan for Google Earth Tour

Location	Activity Description	Google Earth Content
1. Nile River	Measure the area and compare the green, fertile land by the river, and the desert where the water doesn't reach.	Ruler
2. Pyramids	Look at this picture of the pyramids. Compare what the pyramids look like now to the picture. What do you think the pyramids looked like when they were first built? Referring back to what we learned in class, explain why the ancient Egyptians went through such extreme lengths to bury kings.	http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gray0239/architecture/pyramids.bmp
3.Valley of the Kings	Read this National Geographic article about King Tut. Look at the geography of the Valley of the Kings on Google Earth and in a short paragraph, describe why burial in this valley was so popular.	http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/index.html?source=ge-africa
4. Petra	Watch you tube video Describe the process you think the people probably used in carving out the treasury structure into the rock wall	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAXu4ODpqmk