Year 7 Humanities - History Extension Projects

Some students from each class were chosen to do an extension activity for HSIE, we were given the task to act as historians and discover more about Ancient Egypt and King Tut. We split up into small groups and all took a few subjects to complete each. My group chose belief in the afterlife and death rituals, the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, and sarcophagi. We completed our research tasks and put the key information onto a poster, while we had a fact file for the teachers. My group constructed a sarcophagus and gold coins for our artefact out of clay, and we then painted them with metallics. Thank you to all of the teachers who helped us throughout the process of this, we couldn't have done it without you guys. - Savannah McGann

In Term 3 during Weeks 9 and 10, a few other kids and I were chosen to be in the HSIE Extension Program for Humanities. From our small group, we broke into smaller groups and each took 2-3 parts of the task. The task was about Ancient Egypt. My group (Me, Izzy and Bella) did Ancient Egyptian lifestyle and Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Over the two weeks, we worked on gathering information and making ancient artifacts out of clay. When we were finished we proudly presented them into the hub.  - Erin Drewsen

For my extension task, Pypar and I studied Ancient Egyptian beliefs and rituals. The process of our task began with study and finding all our information we needed to know, giving each other certain topics to study. We then started looking at ideas for our artifact. We decided to use clay to make artwork of Osiris’ face. We molded it and then painted it. - Kira Pendlebury

In Humanities during Term 3 in Weeks 9 and 10, a small group of students were selected to be part of a HSIE extension group studying the lives and customs of the Ancient Egyptians. From that small group, we broke up into smaller groups containing 2 or 3 people, and those groups worked on 2 to 3 different subjects about the Ancient Egyptian custom. Our group ( Lincoln, Stephanie, and Ivy ) had the subjects Ancient Egyptian class, Ancient Egyptian belief in the afterlife and Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. We then made artefacts that related to our subjects out of clay; then we painted them in the colours provided. We presented them in the hub on the second last day of term. - Ivy Prior

In the HSIE extension, we were learning about Ancient Egypt. Erin, Bella an I chose the daily life of an eqyptian citizen and eqyptian pharaohs. We made a slideshow on each subject. Then we made artifacts out of clay that was relevant to our subjects. Bella made bread and beer, I made garlic, spices, olives, a carrot and a bowl, Erin made an organ holder (canopic jar) which had an organ in it. Overall it was a fun task and we learnt a lot about Ancient Egypt. - Isabella Syne