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Maya Civilisation
Monday
LO: To use dates when sequencing events and periods of time
Miss. H
Starter Activity
Task 1
Can you order the events and create your own timeline?
Task 2
Watch the video introducing the Maya Civilisation and make a note of key facts and dates.
Task 3
Create a timeline of Maya events. Then look at both timelines you have created, what is happening at the same time?
Task 4
Look carefully at the artifact below and complete the layers of inference task.
Tuesday
Learning Objective: To compare behaviours (sports) between the Maya and now
Miss. H
Task 1
Read the Pok-ta-pok fact sheet to find out about the game. Then watch the video to see what it looks like.
Compare Pok-ta-pok with football
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Task 2
Use everything you have learnt to write your own set of instructions for a game of Pok-ta-Pok.
Wednesday
Learning Objective: To understand that cocoa was important in Mayan culture
Miss. H
Task 1
Task 1
Read the information below to help you complete the corn Vs chocolate task.
Click on each image to enlarge
Challenge: If you have the ingredients, you could have a go at making Maya hot chocolate!
Thursday - We would normally have PPA in school so follow the Spanish, Music and PE lessons for today.
Friday
Learning Objective: To understand the Mayan writing system and make comparisons
Miss. H
Task 1
List any similarities you can find between our writing system and the Maya writing system.
Task 2
Read the information about Maya writing. Use what you have read to answer the questions.
Task 3
Watch the video to see how to write using the Maya alphabet.
Now have a go at writing your own name using the Maya alphabet.
If you find it too tricky, just have a go at copying some of the tiles.
