¡Viva América Latina! History Focus: The Maya Civilization

Topic Overview: Cross- Curricular Links  Spanish: Greetings, feelings, food, colours, numbers etc  Art: Day of the Dead sketching, painting and printing

Topic Overview: Cross- Curricular Links  Literacy: Stories from Other Cultures  Maths: Mayan place value, constructing 3D Mayan pyramids, symmetrical Mayan masks.

Topic Overview: Cross- Curricular Links  Geography: Locating countries, using an Atlas. Physical and human geography of specific Latin American countries.  Science: Habitats

History Focus: The Maya Civilization  Heavy focus on History skills and becoming “History Detectives”  Children generating questions to explore during the topic; at the start and throughout History lessons

Skills Covered from new National Curriculum  Ask questions about the past  Suggest suitable sources of evidence for historical enquiries  Use evidence to find answers to questions about the past  Use more than one source of evidence for historical enquiry in order to gain a more accurate understanding of history  Describe the social, ethnic, cultural or religious diversity of past society.

Next Steps:  Children to use a range of sources to find answers to their enquiries, including some key dates  Put together a class ‘Maya Timeline’ on washing line