| Title: The Ancient Maya Culture |
| Subject: Social Studies |
| Grade Level: 5 - 6 |
| Overview: |
| Students are utilizing technology in investigating the Ancient Maya Culture of Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala. They are creating a PowerPoint presentation to display their research and an original drawing of their name in Maya hieroglyphics. |
| Approximate Duration: 3 class periods |
Content Standards: - History: Time, Continuity, and Change
Students develop a sense of historical time and historical perspective as they study the history of their community, state, nation, and world.
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Benchmarks: - H-1A-M4
analyzing historical data using primary and secondary sources; - H-1A-M6
conducting research in efforts to answer historical questions; - H-1B-M1
identifying and describing characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450;
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Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs): - Historical Thinking Skills
Grade 6 19. Use multiple primary and secondary sources to describe world civilizations (H-1A-M4)
21. Conduct historical research using a variety of resources to answer historical questions related to world civilizations (H-1A-M6)
Grade 5 27. Identify and describe indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the Americas at the beginning of European exploration (H-1B-M1)
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Interdisciplinary Connections: - Mathematics : Number and Number Relations
In problem-solving investigations, students demonstrate an understanding of the real number system and communicate the relationships within that system using a variety of techniques and tools.
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Educational Technology Standards: - Demonstrate the operations of a computer (e.g., touch-keyboarding skills, save, organize and back-up files) and other peripheral devices (scanner, digital and video cameras, VCR, laser disc player) at an intermediate level.
- Use information, media, and technology in a responsible manner which includes following the school's acceptable use policy, adhering to copyright laws, respecting the rights of others, and employing proper etiquette in all forms of communication.
- Use multimedia tools and desktop publishing to develop and present computer-generated projects for directed and independent learning activities.
- Use telecommunications and online resources efficiently and effectively to collaborate with peers, experts, and others to investigate curriculum-related problems, issues, and information and to develop solutions or products for various audiences.
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Objectives:
The Learner Will:
Use the internet to research basic information about the Ancient Maya civilization and system of writing.
Answer higher order thinking questions on the Ancient Maya Culture.
Use KidPix to create an original Maya logograph.
Create a PowerPoint presentation sharing research gathered on the Maya Culture, answers to higher order questions, and original artwork. |
Lesson Materials and Resources:
Sunburst Voyage of the Mimi Episode 7 video
December 1975 issue of National Geographic Magazine
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Technology Tools and Materials:
Hardware:
PC Computer with internet access
TV / VCR or DVD player Software:
MicroSoft PowerPoint
Kid Pix, MicroSoft Paint, or other paint program Websites:
•The Maya Culture
www.cpsb.org/oakparkmiddle/k-quest/maya/maya.htm
Other:
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Background Information:
This lesson was created by Barbara LaBauve, Tally Wallace, Greg English, and Lisa Monteith in Region V 2004 - 2005 INTECH class. The website contains a PowerPoint template, additional web resources, and evaluation template. |
Lesson Procedures:
1. Begin lesson by greeting students with "Bix A Belex", which is Yucatec Mayan for how are you. Teach students to respond, with "Maloob" which is fine. Use this attention getting device to tell the students a little more about the Ancient Maya culture. Show a map of the "Maya Rectangle" - the area of the Yucatan, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala.
2. Introduce students to the Maya website and show them the PowerPoint template and set of questions. Monitor and assist students as they answer their questions using the URLs from the website. As students find answers to questions, they are to add them to the PowerPoint presentation template and save them on their individual computers.
3. Introduce students to the Maya system of pictographic or logographic writing - share website with them. Students will use the phonetics chart to create their own name in Maya hieroglyphics using KidPix. Monitor and assist students as they create their artwork. Demonstrate to students on how to save their artwork in their PowerPoint presentation.
4. Students share their PowerPoint presentations and original artwork. |
Assessment Procedures:
Rubric Assessment of the PowerPoint presentation. |
Accommodations/Modifications:
Repeated Directions
Extended Time
----- written by Lisa Monteith
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Reproducible Materials:
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Explorations and Extensions:
Students can investigate the Maya number system which is Base 20. Using a Maya Counting Board and dots, bars, and shells students can play a game where they convert our Base 10 numbers to Maya Base 20. |
Lesson Development Resources:
Second Voyage of the Mimi Series
National Geographics Sept. '91; Dec. '97
"Kids' Discover Magazine" - The Maya
A Traveler's Tale of Tikal from December 1975 National Geographic
"Spirit of the Jaguar" Video
"The Maya" Video
"Songs of the Chirimia", Book
"Maya for Students and Travelers", Book
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Reflections:
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Contact Information:
Lisa Monteith
lisa.monteith@cpsb.org
W. W. Lewis |
Additional Contacts:
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| MarcoPolo Lesson: No |
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