The Ancient World of Mesopotamia.... what do you think?

Today in class we got to watch a video on Google earth that was about Mesopotamia, turning into what it is now, Iran. After the video (which was 3 min long) we were told to write what we saw, thought, and wondered from the video. The video showed two maps. One was of Mesopotamia (when it existed) the other one showed the developed "Mesopotamia" which is now Iran.
Overall, I think that this was a good activity to do, because it made you think above and beyond to answer the questions. We first recorded all the basic things we saw in the two maps. Some of the basic things I wrote were: I see red lines, I see red and white stars. From the basic observations, we made connections and linked them on to inferences, and thoughts. A thought would be, I think the red lines are borders that divide the countries, I think that the red and white stars indicate the place is a capital or something important. As our class was getting deeper into this activity I started noticing things I never did before, and I came up with good questions that linked to both what I saw and thought. After the class our teacher asked us to create a headline that we thought would probably sum up everything we basically talked about in class. I chose "The Ancient World of Mesopotamia... what do you think?" I chose this title because I thought we mainly discussed about what we thought, and inferences that came from just some obvious details. I also chose this title because the first map (of Mesopotamia) was titled the Ancient World which reltaed to what we discussed about. We also asked some questions in response to others thoughts like: What makes you say that? Where do see this or that?

I personally thought that the class went well, and I learned a lot from this activity.