¡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