Online Activities. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation. Egyptian Hieroglyphics. © Contributed by Leanne Guenther My name is What's your name? It's true that a 7 year old can't learn all the ins and outs of Egyptian hieroglyphics! But mom's simplified things enough here that we can have fun writing our names and learn a bit about sounding out Egyptian writing at the same time.
At times, different words sound the same but mean different things (for example: to and two). Egyptians added additional hieroglyphic characters to help sort out the meaning of the words. Also, keep in mind that the Egyptians didn't always spell from left to right. Instead of It's fun to stack and arrange the letters different ways to make the nicest look. We've made our hieroglyphs very colorful, but they were often a lot more dull: Make a cartouche: A cartouche is sort of like a nametag. Arrange your hieroglyphs in this up and down manner on a piece of yellow construction paper or gold wrapping paper. Oh, and by the way. Games & Stories - Ancient Egypt for Kids. Ancient Egypt - Menu page. Ancient Egypt - Guardian's Egypt - Explore Ancient Egypt from the comfort of your own computer! Travel Tours To Egypt.