St. John Rigby RC College had a large computer/internet suite with one to one access. On Day 2 of the main project pupils looked around the Inspiration Africa site and their visit to the African Worlds pages which had already been documented - this featured an on-line form.

"I liked looking at the pictures it was fun (I am the person in the top left reading the poem)"

They finished off the session completing worksheet 1 which was an online form featuring pictures and questions from their introduction day ie. Pick one of these four objects, describe it and how it was used in the burial ritual and Name and describe three screen printing tools.

"The biggest object in the picture comes from a mummy coffin. It is the side of a coffin and is made out of wood. The pictures are called hieroglyphics"
"The statue of the man was used in the Egyptian times. It was used when people didn't want to do things they used them as their spirit which did things for them. Like their twin"
"The wooden plank of wood is the side of a coffin which was used when dead emperors were put in it. They drew on the side of them and it was a story about them or how they died"

"The wooden frame, the screen and the squeegee"
"The screen is made from polystyrene & has a border of wood. The thick ink we used and a squeegee"
A squeegee is a tool you use to spread the paint/ink over the screen. The screen itself is made out of very thin mesh so the paint/ink can go through"
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At the following session, Year 9 completed worksheet 2. This was not a question and answer form but outlined three on-line tasks:
1. Find out about the virtual banner on the website in preparation for next week's session.
2. Look at sites about Egypt and Egyptology.
3. Save the Egyptian Mummy picture from the webpage to hard disk and then edit it in a Paint programme.

One of the Egyptology sites featured a Letter to Hieroglyph Encoder so the pupils could see what their names might look like translated.

A rectangular space had been made on the front of the Mummy image and pupils were asked to make up your own belief hieroglyph inside it using the Paint programme (see pictures below).

Finally, during the project pupils also word processed some of the poems they had been working on with Sola. Position your mouse over the corner of the large mummy below to see a slideshow of the completed mummies or....

... click on a thumbnail below to see the full-size image.