After learning about Ancient Mesopotamia and their geographic location, students engineered a distilling system to separate out the natural resources they would have encountered. They used a fake budget to create a distillation system for i.e. gold (small pieces), silver, carnelian rocks, copper, seashells, sand, salt, etc. This project incorporated research in regards to mixtures, elements, physical properties and chemical properties. The students were required to research the properties of the