Mesoamerican & African Civilizations Unit Plan Bundle
Everything you need to teach the Aztec, Maya, Inca, and the great African empires, with a lesson plan for every day.
Take the guesswork out of teaching these great civilizations with all your planning done for you in one simple download.
This bundle has everything you need to teach the civilizations of the Americas and Africa, from Tenochtitlan and Machu Picchu to Mansa Musa's Mali and the trade routes of the Sahara. You get daily lesson plans plus more than 40 resources that work in print and in Google Classroom.
Included lesson plans walk you through how to use each resource, and include learning objectives, links to videos to show in class, Google Docs, and more. You can open them and teach tomorrow.
Your zip folder download includes all of the following resources:
- African Empires interactive notebook foldables
- Mesoamerican Civilizations interactive notebook foldables
- Africa and Mesoamerica Google Drive digital interactive notebook
- Quest for the Maya Codex escape room lesson
- A complete, 9-page unit guide packet
- Aztec, Inca, and Maya Civilization Comparison Chart
- Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Mesoamerican Civilizations PowerPoint & video lesson
- Axum, Mali, Songhai, Zimbabwe, and Ghana PowerPoint & video lesson
- African Trade Routes of the Middle Ages Lesson
- World Empires in 1500 Project
- World Civilization Recipe Project
Plus:
- Primary source activities on Ibn Battuta and Mesoamerican encounters with Europeans
- An African mask project
- Readings on Trans-Saharan trade and the Kingdom of Axum
- Outline maps
- Fun Review games
- Multiple options for your assessment
These are the materials I built and used in my own classroom, and they're designed to keep students curious while covering the content they need. Buy once and the whole unit is yours to use year after year.
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