I am so pleased with the ways we were able to use the Met Artwork of the Day this week. The object was a set of gold jewelry from the 17th-18th c. BC that was found in Mesopotamia. I knew the students would like seeing it--a bit of "bling-bling" as they used to call it from a long time ago! Here are the activities we did based on that presentation:
1. Read the description and noted unfamiliar words: emanate, deity, personages, talisman, millenium, etc.
2. Determined the age of the jewelry which meant figuring the difference between 1800 BC and 2010 AD.
3. Found Mesopotamia on the globe in present-day Iraq.
4. Drew the actual size of the largest pendant on paper using 1 3/8 inches as a diameter. This introduced the word "diameter" and reviewed the work we had done earlier in the week with rulers.
5. Reread the description and tried to determine the meaning of the vocabulary words from context.
6. Discussed talismans in our own lives. One student said she brought her ultrasound photo to Bingo as a good luck charm!
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