Aztecs Topic Enrichment Pack

Give your class the full Mesoamerican experience with this Aztecs KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack! There are seven engaging lessons spanning Art, DT and Geography, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Practise Aztec weaving, create a colourful and creative Aztec calendar and make a diorama to show a particular aspect of Aztec life
• Design, make and evaluate their own patolli games and have the chance to prepare and taste some Aztec-style food
• Locate both Mesoamerica and Mexico on a world map and explore the physical and human geography of Mexico.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Aztecs History topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

We also have a ready-to-teach Y5/6 History scheme, Aztecs, which you might be interested in!

Aztec Weaving

This fun Aztec Weaving KS2 Art lesson teaches your class how Aztec women used looms to weave fabric to make cloth.

Your class will learn about the warp threads and how the fabric is made by weaving thread between these. The slides include a simple, step-by-step process for children to make their very own looms and weaving Aztec artefacts, such as a bookmark or bracelet.

This Aztec Weaving KS2 planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a PDF slideshow presentation for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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The Aztec Calendar

This Aztec Calendar KS2 Art lesson begins by exploring the use of calendars in Aztec society and how they used them to track the passing of time.

Your class will look at the way each day was labelled and the symbols the Aztecs used for these labels. After investigating their uses, the children make and decorate their own calendars using the Aztec sunstone as inspiration.

A lesson plan, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input and printable resources are all included in this Aztec Calendar KS2 planning pack.

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Aztec Dioramas

In this Aztec Diorama Art lesson for KS2, children will explore the use of dioramas to help visualise scenes of history to show what they would have looked like and bring them to life.

In their independent activities, your class will think about and make notes on an everyday scene from an Aztec’s life, and use this to base their own diorama on!

This Aztecs Dioramas KS2 lesson comes fully planned and ready to deliver to your class. There's a detailed lesson plan, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Patolli Board Game

This KS2 DT lesson takes a look at the popular Aztec board game of patolli and gives your class the chance to design and create their own version of the game.

Your class will first look at how it is played and use this understanding to design and create their own version of this game. They will need to think about the game pieces they will need as well as the board. As an extra challenge they can create the packaging to go with their game!

This Patolli Board Game KS2 planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a PDF slideshow presentation for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Aztec Food

This Aztec Food KS2 DT lesson give your Year 5 or Year 6 class the chance to create and taste some of the foods Aztecs would have eaten!

Children are given the opportunity to follow recipes to make guacamole, salsa and hot chocolate, as well as to design and make their own Aztec-style tortilla wrap. They are encouraged to taste test the foods, evaluating their methods and the food’s quality.

This Aztec Food KS2 planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources. Everything you need in order to deliver a great Aztec food lesson is included...all you need to do is provide the food itself!

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Where did the Aztecs live?

In this KS2 Geography lesson, your class will find out about the location of the Aztec empire, both as Mesoamerica (as it was known then) and Mexico (as it is known today).

Children will observe the bodies of water and continents that it is part of and that surround it. They will develop their map and atlas skills when identifying different locations of Mexico and its cities, linking these with the Aztec cities that came before them.

This lesson contains an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Mexico

With this Mexico KS2 pack, your class will explore the modern-day country of Mexico and investigate its geographical features, such as landscape, size, population and climate.

During their independent learning time, children will use a variety of sources, including those provided within this pack, to answer questions about the geographical features of Mexico.

This Mexico KS2 lesson plan pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of helpful printable teaching resources.

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