Mesopotamia activities

This ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform activity is a fun, hands-on history experience. Become ancient scribes writing on clay tablets with reeds.

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If you're studying Ancient Sumer or Ancient Mesopotamia, then your students will love these hands-on activities which get them making art, crafts, and writing from the earliest civilizations! This pack has lots of activities you can pick and choose from, that will give students an insight into the crafts and technology that the first civilizations in Mesopotamia used. Students can: explore cuneiform script with two different scripts to try (Sumerian and old Persian) practice weaving make a…

These 5 engaging ways to teach ancient Mesopotamia will have your 6th graders enchanted and entranced with the cradle of civilization and the area of Mesopotamia. Middle school social study students will get to write an epic poem, learn cuneiform, explore the 7 wonders, build a ziggurat, and be the judge in these activities that hit on the high points of this ancient civilization. Dive into history and make it hands-on with this engaging blog post.

With this project, kids learn how this ancient civilization invented a system to grow crops. The most extraordinary thing about this is that we still use this system today! CLICK HERE to do this Ancient Mesopotamia Kids Hands-on History and STEM Irrigation Activity!

It's not hard to make history come alive by adding in activities, crafts, projects, and of course, history games! History is much better when it feels like play and not work. So I had to make a version of the Mesopotamian game that we call The Royal Game of Ur. What better way to connect

Day 2. Ancient Mesopotamia (Hands-on History): Cook Sebetu Rolls, I'm sharing a fun recipe to do while studying about Ancient Mesopotamia. Click here to come on over and do it!

Use this crossword puzzle to introduce or reinforce a unit on ancient Mesopotamia with your class. It covers 25 vocabulary words and includes instructive clues that kids will be motivated to figure out. Puzzles make fun no prep activities for early finishers, bell ringers, morning work, handouts, homework, reading comprehension and lesson plan supplements, themed classrooms, sponge activities, introductions to new topics, and sub files and crosswords can be used for tests or quizzes as well…

Looking to add a fun activity to your Ancient Mesopotamia unit that is easy and low-prep? Check out these 5 ideas that you'll love and your students will enjoy...