What Is a Pyramid?
Made for Maya, camel included
Twelve short-answer and matching questions from a lesson on the pyramids of Egypt. Maya finds Egypt on the map and names its continent, then writes the word for a stone building with sloping sides, a burial place, a fortified building, and a place of worship, and matches each building to what it was for.
Skills on this worksheet
- Locate Egypt and name the continent it belongs to
- Define continent, pyramid, tomb, castle, and temple
- Match a building to its purpose
- Explain in one sentence what a pyramid actually is
Question types: Short answer, yes or no, write the word, matching, and one true-or-false sentence.
Three of the questions
- Which country should you point to if you are looking for the pyramids from this lesson?
- Write the word that means a stone building with sloping sides meeting near the top.
- Match the building to its description: fortified building with walls or towers.
The answer key gives the answer to every question and, for the worked example at the top, the reasoning behind it.
How it was personalized
Maya asked for a camel, so there is a camel in front of the pyramids at the top of the page. Everything below it is the standard early elementary introduction to ancient Egypt and the vocabulary of buildings.
A real lesson, a real student
Every Primer lesson has an Unplugged step, and any lesson can turn into a printable worksheet with one tap. This one came out of Maya's lesson on the same topic, so the questions check exactly what the lesson taught, in the words the lesson used. Names, interests, and the illustration come from Maya's profile.
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