Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe the function of buildings used by the Maya in the past, a shared reading text to explore how the Maya built and developed cities and a table display card to support research of a building that has been left behind by the Mayan civilization.

The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate the construction and function of buildings used by the Maya in the past and explain how historians could use the buildings to find out about life in the Mayan Civilization.

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.