Farming in Ancient Egypt

What did Ancient Egyptians grow?

They grew everything they needed to eat, including wheat, barley, vegetables, figs, melons, pomegranates

How did they get water to their plants?

These pictures show farmers using a shaduf (“shadoof”) to get water from a canal into a bucket.

What other tools did they use?

Plows pulled by animals to make trenches for seeds

Sickles to cut grain

How did they carry food once it was harvested?

Turn and tell a friend:

What do we have in our classroom that we can use as a basket to pretend to carry things on our heads? How could we make a big basket for two people to carry on a pole?