Aztec, Maya, Inca: Lesson Plans & Activities Bundle Digital & Printable Unit 5-8
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With over 320 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, & assessments you’ll need to teach like a superhero! This unit is perfect for both a paper-driven or Google classroom environment.
This awesome student-centered Mesoamerican Civilizations Unit has students explore and review the big idea six key concepts (GRAPES). Plus, all of our curriculum units have embedded student accountability with assessments at each step, so progress is data-driven.
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Like all of our Ancient History bundles, the Aztec, Mayan, Inca Civilizations unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no prep history activities, and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.
Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced printable subfolders
The packet is divided into IV parts AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents. A scope and sequence is provided for easy planning:
I. AZTEC, MAYA, INCA NOTES, POWERPOINTS, CLOSE READINGS, and CONTENT INSTRUCTION:
✅1. Printable one-pager notes for all three civilizations (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
✅2. Aztec, Inca AND Maya Close Readings, Analysis Guide, and Annotation Activities (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
✅3. Fantastic visual PowerPoint notes for all three civilizations (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
✅4. Printable graphic organizers for all three civilizations (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
✅5. Geography Mini Bundles with seven activities included for each geographic region: South America AND Mexico. Now includes a geography quiz and answer key!
✅6. An Americas Vocabulary Lesson Set with lots of options, review games, and a content/academic vocabulary quiz. Now includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions.
✅7. An Americas Introduction Investigation - Students analyze primary sources, look at maps and visuals to make predictions about their learning for the unit. It also comes with a summative reflection activity!
✅8. Daily Skill-Based Text Analysis Warm-Ups and Mini-Lessons – Students make inferences and predictions from text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.
✅9. Reading Station Activities: These content-rich lesson plans are student-centered and interactive! This Ancient Aztec, Maya, and Inca reading stations have close readings and primary sources. Students analyze the government, economy, culture, geography, religion, and achievements of all three ancient civilizations. (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
II. AZTEC, MAYA, INCA ACTIVITIES, WORKSHEETS, AND PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS:
☀️1. Mexico Where in the World? Scavenger Hunt and Map Activity
☀️2. South America Where in the World? Scavenger Hunt and Map Activity
☀️3. Engaging Aztec Religion Reading with Common Core Worksheet
☀️4. An Aztec/ Conquistador Shadow Silhouette Perspective Activity with examples, template, and youtube instructional link.
☀️5. Common Core paragraph writing instructional materials and writing template
☀️6. Printable homework worksheets based on the notes for all three civilizations (Aztec, Maya, Inca)
☀️7. FaceTime Interviews for Montezuma, Pizarro, Atahualpa and Cortez. Includes Common Core and Interview Activity Options
☀️8. Common Core literacy and math population decline from smallpox bar graphing activity
☀️9. Aztec Pictograph Analysis Activity
☀️10. Vocabulary Set with an assignment, two review games, and a quiz in both PDF and Word!
☀️12.Doodle World History Summary Activity. Fun creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key "big idea" concepts.
☀️13. What's Your Destiny?-Close reading and fun comprehension game. Students read and compete on a displayed class game board. Winning students choose a fictitious destiny that is shared with the class!
☀️14. Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Resource Pack
☀️15. A key concept Field Report
☀️16. Maya Calendar Reading and Worksheet
☀️17. Maya Math and Economy Lesson- Students learn about the Maya math system and trade goods, then they purchase goods in the marketplace!
III. AZTEC, MAYA, INCA REVIEW, and FUN GAMES:
▶️1. Jingle Mingle Fun Review Interactive - Students mingle about the room finding partners. When the music stops, students address essential learning questions together!
▶️2. A Flyswatter game with answers that is a review for all three civilizations (exclusive to this bundle)
▶️3. A Venn diagram that compares all three civilizations with an answer key (exclusive to this bundle)
▶️4. A student-directed review activity for all three civilizations that includes an answer key (exclusive to this bundle)
▶️5. A fun PowerPoint-driven "Human Multiple Choice" game (exclusive to this bundle)
▶️6. A comprehensive test study guide- students pre-read the excerpts used in the test to define difficult words and create meaning before being exposed to content questions.
▶️7. Exit Tickets- Over 40 formats from which to choose! Students support a claim with evidence, write what they learned or formulate content questions! This is a great informal daily summary.
IV. AZTEC, MAYA, INCA TESTS and ASSESSMENTS:
✍1. Common Core Literacy and Writing Aligned Multiple Choice tests in both PDF and Word. Easy to modify! See test example HERE.
✍2.Content and academic vocabulary quiz, geography quiz, and a reading comprehension quiz with answer keys
This bundle has some great cross-curricular lessons that reinforce math, science, writing and reading, and fun review games!
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❤️❤️ The Aztec, Maya, Inca Bundle is also available in a digital classroom format that works great in any internet-based or paperless class, including Google Classroom! The digital version includes Google Forms assessments, interactive Google Slides digital activities that have pre-made text boxes, and Google Earth/Maps activities.
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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History lessons and Medieval History lessons, are key-concept based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES. By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers.
Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:
- G= Geography
- R= Religion
- A= Achievements
- P= Politics/Government/Leadership
- E= Economy
- S= Social Classes
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We are a Middle School teacher duo with over 40 years of experience in the Middle School classroom! We strive to create history and science lesson plans that inspire teachers and engage students, focusing on history activities for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Our Ancient History and Medieval History curricula includes no prep worksheets and Common Core lessons that have been tested and polished in the classroom. World History activities are created with visually rich graphic organizer worksheets and fun thematic assignments. We hope you and your students love our products as much as we did making and using them in our Middle School classes!
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