The British Museum developed web sites on ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Teacher can use the websites in teaching Egypt and Mesopotamia culture.

There are three main goals of this web site. The first is to provide an educationally sound online resource that can be used independently by pupils within a school setting. The second is to provide teachers with an online resource that is user-friendly and combines suggested classroom activities and online activities with background support and information. The third is to present information about ancient Egypt through the use of objects from the British Museum's collection.

Three main courses of action are conducted to achieve these goals.
- Designing activities or modules that can be explored with varying degrees of independence and depth within about fifteen minutes.

- Providing suitable materials, (i.e.: technical and content support as well as suggested activities) for teachers to help in planning classroom lessons involving the web site.

·- Supplying teachers with a range of activities that are geared towards pupils with different learning styles and abilities.

In addition, this program will help to reinforce the following learning skills:
• Observation
• Visual analysis
• Textual analysis
• Building hypotheses
• Sequencing and classifying information
• Using key words
• Predicting
• Map reading

The aim of this program is not to be a definitive source of information about all aspects and all time periods relevant to ancient Egypt. Rather, it is geared towards illuminating certain aspects of ancient Egyptian history that are especially important, interesting, or lend themselves to multimedia treatment. It is expected that certain basic ideas and events relating to ancient Egypt will be addressed by the classroom curriculum either before or after the pupil explores this product.

The site is divided into ten chapters which address themes or topics relevant to ancient Egypt. The ten chapters are presented on a menu page where the user can choose a chapter by clicking on the word or icon relating to that chapter. The 'Staff Room' menu provides teachers with useful resources or guidance materials.

The 10 chapters are as follows.
- The Egyptian Life chapter introduces basic aspects of daily life for the ancient Egyptians, including the food they ate, how they dressed, and what jobs they did.

- The Geography chapter presents the basic geographical features of both ancient and modern Egypt.

-The Gods and Goddesses chapter features an animated creation myth and a collection of information about the principal deities worshipped by the ancient Egyptians.

- The Mummification chapter outlines the process of mummification and explains the purpose of funerary objects.

- The Pharaoh chapter explains the symbolic and political role of the ruler in ancient Egypt.

- The Pyramids chapter features information about the building of the pyramids and a reconstruction of the Great Pyramid.

- The Temples chapter introduces pupils to the basic structure and use of temples in ancient Egypt.

- The Time introduces how time was kept in ancient Egypt, and includes multiple time lines tracing different aspects of ancient Egyptian life and culture.

- The Trades chapter introduces pupils to some of the trades practiced by craftsmen in ancient Egypt, including jewellery-making and carpentry.

- The Writing chapter outlines the scripts used in ancient Egypt, and explains where and how writing was used.

For each chapter there is a doormat page, which is an atmospheric introductory page to the chapter. Within each chapter there are three sections: Story, Explore, Challenge.

1. The 'Story' is a presentation of information in a narrative form.
2. The 'Explore' is a non-linear presentation of information. The pupil controls the order in which they access the information. It is then the responsibility of the pupil (and/or the teacher) to make larger connections among ideas and information and place the information in a context or framework.
3. The 'Challenge' is an activity that allows pupils to practice certain skills (historical, analytical, mathematical, observational) within the context of a theme or topic relevant to ancient Egypt.