Wednesday, October 29, 2008

6th Grade: Pyramids


Go here to visit the pyramids and take a virtual tour. Have fun!

When you are finished touring, come back and post a response to this question: What are the pyramids and why were they important to Egyptian society? Your answer should be three to five sentences in length.

34 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Well they are important because if you are a pharaoh and don't have a pyramid you won't have a good afterlife.Their important to the society because it is resembles the pharaoh that once ruled.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids were places were they buried the Pharaoh. The pyramids were important because people can go in and the mummy. They also used the pyramids to confuse the grave robbers by the passages they made to get to a certain place in the pyramid.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids were buildings made of lime stone and it took a ling time to create and the were important because they could make sacrifices and it would help with the hard situation for the eygiptions.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids were places where the pharaohs were buried. They also have some other features and other mummies in there. They are important to Egyptians because that is where all of there happy belongings are for the afterlife. If they didn't have their belongings, they would not have a happy afetrlife

Anonymous said...

Khufu's pyramid was also called the great pyramid. Each side was 760 ft. It had many rooms and passageways that were built to confuse grave robbers. The passageways were very small. The grand gallery was the passageway that led to Khufu's grave.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids are a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and four sides that meet at the top of the point. They are important because some people after they die will live in it.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are because they were like a kingdom and a tombe, they are important because they were a place to keep a mummy safe for the afterlife.

Anonymous said...

the pyramids were important so when they die the will have a place to put him in.pyramids are a 3D triangle with four sides.The egyptians use it to put the pharaohs in when they are dead so they don't take another twenty years to make the pyramid.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are were the people leave there mummy. They are important because the pyramids help hid the mummy and they have like a lot of doors so the robbers will get confused.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids are place were gods live. They are important to Egyptian society, because so the king beings left over food. So the god can have the clothing and the food.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids were important because they had pharaohs.The thieves stole the stuff.The pyramids have stuff of the pharaoh that died.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids were important because it hides the pharaohs tomb from grave robbers.Pyramids are a four sided figure that hides the pharaohs tomb.Then while hiding the tomb they put graffiti around the pyramid and the pharaohs valuables.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are where the pharaohs and king are buried. They were important to Egyptian society because they needed to bury the pharaohs and kings somewhere. And they got mummified and some grave robbers stole the mummies. If a grave robber comes and steal something from the tomb the mummy won't have a happy afterlife.

Anonymous said...

They are important because they left the mummy there.One of the biggest pyramid was the knfu pyramid.It related egptian socity by the pharaoh they had in there the gods and the mummy

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are there to help protect mummies from tomb robbers. The Egyptians were smart because they hid all of the mummies in differnt places and they added extra doors to trick tomb robbers. The pyramids were very narrow and small, sometimes they got wide and tall.

Anonymous said...

When the pharaoh died they would go in their pyramid. Everything had to be perfect and made before the pharaoh died. It was the peoples job to make sure that it was done because if he died before it was done his afterlife would not be happy.

Anonymous said...

They were important because they were where the pharaohs and important people were buried.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids was a building that pharaohs were buried in. They were important because when pharaohs were buried in them they were thought to go to the afterlife. The afterlife was a happy place that you would go after death. The biggest pyramid was the Great Pyramid that Khufu, an egyptian pharaoh, made. It took about 20,000 egyptians to build it.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids are buildings that are made from stone brick.The pyramids are important to the egyptians because the pharaohs tomb is in the pyramid.The pharaohs though it would be safe to make you're tomb in the valley of secrets.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids are triangular shaped structure that has four sides. The sides are 760 feet around each side. They were important to egyptian society because that is where they buried khufu. He was buried in a place called Valley of the Kings. Khufu was buried in the great pyramid.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are really big triangle prism. It has four sides and they putted the pharaohs and people that are rich in the pyramid when they died. The pyramid is important because they write in the pyramid and putted the pharaohs and rich people when they died.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids were important to egyptians because thats were they buried the pharaohs that have been mummified. Sometimes they were robbed by grave robbers. After they kept being robbed they decided to put them in the place they called the Valley of the Kings. Pyramids were huge trianlgleular 3D figures that had a lot of space inside of them. They also had the tombs in it. They then started putting many rooms to trick the grave robbers and stop them from robbing them.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are burial tombs for pharaohs and rich people. They were important because the pharaohs were buried their with his/her belongings and other reletives would be buried their.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids were tombs to protect the pharaoh from getting robbed. It was important because if the grave robbers took the body they wouldn't have a good afterlife. They built the pyramids because that the people that were buried get their own palace. It was important because they would have their own servants.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids are tall buildings they had the tome in. That is where the Egyptians became a mummy. They were important because it kept the Egyptians in order to Pharaoh to slave. Also it was built for the Pharaoh and the gods. Egyptians stored surplus in there when they needed to.

Anonymous said...

The pyramid were used for many things. Like the Egyptians pyramids were where they put there as tombs to put the person in for the afterlife. The pyramids were important to Egyptians society because the pyramid is were they put their pharaoh.

Anonymous said...

The pyramid were used for many things. Like the Egyptians pyramids were where they put there as tombs to put the person in for the afterlife. The pyramids were important to Egyptians society because the pyramid is were they put their pharaoh.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids were tombs for the kings or pharaohs for the afterlife. This is so they can have a nice place to hangout in when your in the second life.Its important because the pharaoh needed a home. And the pharaoh used it for putting his belongings in the same place he was at so he can have it in there afterlife.

Anonymous said...

They were important to them because without them them they would not have a afterlife. It was usually just for the Pharaohs and there was about 7 chambers to confuse the tomb robbers. They made sure Kufu has the biggest pyramids.

Anonymous said...

The Pyramids were used for many things. Pyramids are structure with a square and a triangular base.They were used for tombs for pharaohs. They had three pyramids in front of them for the Queens.They also had chambers in the pyramids.

Anonymous said...

Pyramids were very important to egyptian socity it was a place where the kings hid when they died. so the bad people don't make them have a happy afterlife.

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are tombs that hold the dead pharaohs (made into mummies) the pyramids had many doors to confuse grave robbers. They where important to society because they helped the egytians to remember the king!

Anonymous said...

The pyramids are important because the pharaoh can have a happy afterlife and that they can have all their thing. Their important to the society because they resemble the pharaohs the had in the past and because they can remember what they did and what was important about them.