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Mayan Culture Logbook
Jillian Eriksson
Lee County School District
Description
Students use different Websites to create a logbook of the Mayan civilization in order to become familiar with their culture.
Standards
Florida Sunshine State Standards
SS.A.2.4.10
The student understands significant cultural, religious, and economic features of civilizations in Mesoamerica and Andean South America.
Florida Process Standards
Information Managers
01 Florida students locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature, the arts, symbols, recordings, video and other graphic displays, and computer files in order to perform tasks and/or for enjoyment.
Resource Managers
06 Florida students will appropriately allocate time, money, materials, and other resources.
Systems Managers
07 Florida students integrate their knowledge and understanding of how social, organizational, informational, and technological systems work with their abilities to analyze trends, design and improve systems, and use and maintain appropriate technology.
Cooperative Workers
08 Florida students work cooperatively to successfully complete a project or activity.
Materials
-Computer with Internet access
-Plain paper
-Pen or colored pencils
-Overhead projector
-Screen
-Mayan Cultural Logbook transparency (See Attached Files.)
-Copies of Mayan Cultural Logbook transparency, one for each student
Preparations
1. Search for Websites that contain interesting pictures and information on the Mayan culture.
2. Create an overhead transparency listing the Websites they may use and the information they need to find.
3. Create your own logbook to have as an example.
4. Go to the Websites the day of the lesson to make sure they are accessible.
5. Become familar with how to get to the Websites using their addresses and also search engines.
6. Become familar with the Websites so you can help students with navigating questions.
Procedures
1. Put students in groups at each computer workstation.
2. Introduce the lesson by asking students what board games they like to play, what team sports are popular in America and what their favorite type of buildings look like. Have a very short class discussion.
3. Tell the students that Mayans also liked board games, team sports and buildings and that they are going to compare Mayan culture with our culture.
4. Explain that each group researches the information together, but each person creates his/her own logbook of the information they have gathered.
5. Have students turn two pieces of paper landscape and fold in half. Label the front page Mayan Logbook. Subsequent pages should be headed: Culture, Religion, Economics.
6. Distribute copies of the Mayan Cultural Logbook transparency. Go over the information using the overhead transparency that lists the Websites and the information the groups are to research.
7. Instruct students to collect (record) the information in their logbooks. Encourage them to put the information into the correct categories in their books. Depending on your class, you may want to instruct students to write in whole sentences, when possible.
8. Collect logbooks at the end of class for credit. Before collecting them, ask the students to share one important piece of information they discovered in their searches. Ask why it is a significant piece of information that was chosen to be included in the logbook.
9. Evaluate the logbook.
Assessments
1. Assess students on their Goal 3 Standards by how they work together in a group, how they navigate the Websites, and how accurately they process the information into their logbooks.
2. In their logbooks, students include information about the culture, religion and economics. Students are required to find at least three significant pieces of information in each category about the Mayans.
Web Links
Web supplement for Mayan Culture Logbook Mayan CultureWeb supplement for Mayan Culture Logbook Mayan RuinsWeb supplement for Mayan Culture Logbook Maya Adventure
Attached Files
Mayan Cultural Logbook Transparency File Extension: pdf
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