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Lesson Three – Temples, Pyramids and Palaces
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and illustrate how the ancient Maya developed their city states by describing functions of different buildings.
The class can produce and label a sketch of one of the buildings used in the Mayan civilization to illustrate what it can teach historians about the lives of the Maya in the past.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and illustrate how the ancient Maya developed their city states by describing functions of different buildings
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.
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