Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe examples of ancient Mayan artefacts that have been discovered by historians, a shared reading text to explore how the Mayan society was ordered and templates to select and record observations and information about an artefact used in the Mayan civilization.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how life in the Mayan civilization was ordered and managed to use when comparing their society with other types of civilizations throughout world history.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to research describe and present information and facts about the culture, traditions and achievements of the Maya civilization in the past . There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.