MEASURES IN THE ANCIENT EGYPT

In this publication, I want to show a YouTube link that explains how these were measured in ancient Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmsPiQFfKN4

This video is a very entertaining video that we can introduce in class with the second cycle students to learn how can you measure in Egypt. In this way, we take children out of their everyday thoughts to think in meters and centimetres and we ask them to open their minds to see that really, we can measure using a multitude of instruments.

In this class, we can all become ancient Egyptian characters and make the measurements of the school with the different tools that show us in the video.

This activity can be very fun for children and makes them have their own resources to make measurements and comparisons between different objects and distances.

In addition, we could perform a gymkhana throughout the school with different spaces and objects that should measure in certain ways in a session.

This video, I think is a great resource to make an introduction of this type of measures in a pleasant and dynamic way, since technologies are something that children love and therefore pay them a lot of attention, so it is an advantage for us that we can use them in class.