AZTECS History Unit - 10 Outstanding Lessons

Get ready for The Aztecs! These 10 outstanding history and geography lessons are the perfect way to teach your children all about the Aztecs over a half term or term. This unit is packed with 46 files!

Children will begin with where and when the Aztecs lived to using real-life artefacts to discover more. Packed with exciting videos and resources, this unit comes fully resourced and planned with detailed lesson plans provided for each lesson.

Created by an experienced humanities subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students across KS2.

Children will find out about:

1. When and where they lived
2. Aztec artefacts
3. Aztec artefacts
4. Everyday life
5. Aztec Gods
6. Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital city)
7. Aztec clothing
8. Sacrifices
9. Designing an Aztec chocolate bar
10. Aztec diet

Resources included:
★ x10 PowerPoints
★ x10 Lesson Plans
★ Starter assessment
★ Blank map of Mexico worksheet
★ Complete map of Mexico
★ Timeline worksheet
★ Timeline answers sheet
★ Civilisation video notes worksheet
★ Video about Aztec civilisations
★ Artefact pictures
★ Artefact teacher notes
★ Artefact discussion questions
★ Solving mysteries video
★ Artefact pictures and information sheets
★ Artefacts worksheet
★ 25 Facts about Aztecs video
★ Aztec Empire video
★ x2 Everyday Aztec life texts
★ Fact file template
★ Note taking sheet
★ x2 differentiated Aztec gods worksheets
★ Aztec gods information sheet
★ Aztec gods fact table
★ Aztec gods note taking sheet
★ Aztec gods Top Trumps template
★ Top 10 Aztec gods facts sheet
★ Life in Tenochtitlan information sheets
★ Tenochtitlan maps
★ Life in Tenochtitlan video
★ Clothing fact sheets
★ Clothing worksheet
★ Aztec fashion video
★ Discussion sentence starters mat
★ Chocolate bar design sheet

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