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Teaching topic: Aztecs: Cross-curricular opportunities

This guide pulls together resources on the Aztec civilisation for teaching purposes

Aztecs in the Irish primary history curriculum

Strand: Working as an historian (all)

  • Time and chronology
  • Change and continuity
  • Cause and effect
  • Using evidence
  • Synthesis and communication
  • Empathy

Strand: Early peoples and ancient societies

  • Aztecs

Strand: Story

  • Stories from the lives of people in the past
  • Myths and legends

Suggested integration of Aztecs in the Irish primary curriculum

Geography curriculum (SESE curriculum)

  • Strand unit: people and places in other areas (human environments)
    • leads to: maps, globes and graphical skills (development of)
  • Strand unit: people and other lands
    • leads to: an environment in a non-European country
  • Strand unit: physical features of Europe and the world (natural environments)
    • leads to: rain forest

Ethical education (Learn together curriculum)

  • ERB (education about religious beliefs / belief systems)

Suggested integration of Mayan / Inca / Aztec artefacts across the Irish primary curriculum

History curriculum

  • using evidence

Visual arts curriculum

  • looking and responding to shape, form, paint and colour etc.
  • making drawings

Science curriculum

  • observing, sorting and classifying (working scientifically)
  • materials (properties and characteristics)
  • designing and making

American historian Hiram Bingham discovered the Inca city of Machu Pic'chu in 1911. He removed lots of artefacts from the site, taking them back to Yale University for further study. In 2007 Yale agreed to return all of the artefacts to Peru.

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