CDCS Topic Planning
2016/2017
The ancient Mayan civilisation
Main Focus: History
What text types / NC objectives are you covering in this topic?
Your main objectives to cover:
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know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world:
the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires;
characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and
follies of mankind
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Contrast a non-European civilization to with British history
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gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different
contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and
international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious
and social history; and between short and long-term timescales.
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Use commas after fronted adverbials
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to
express time and cause
Understand the use of the determiner
Use of subordinate clauses
Continue to develop non-fiction style writing and
appropriate features to this
Other subject links
To cover the above we will look at:
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Discover facts about the Maya and explain who the Maya people were and when and
where in the world they lived.
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Explain the religious beliefs of the Maya people and contrast this with predominantly
Christian beliefs of Britain.
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Study the number and writing system of the Maya and contrast with that of the Britain
c900 AD and today.
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Investigation of the expansion and dissolution of the Mayan empire, compared to the
Norman invasion of Britain, the rise of the British Empire and the commonwealth today.
Key Stage 2
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Create a Mayan “Operation” game linking Mayan religious
belief of ritual sacrifice with our electricity science topic
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Contrast Mayan base 20 number system to our base 10 in
maths
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Contrast Popl Vuh creation myth with Genesis creation story
in religious education
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Have a go at playing Pok-a-Tok in PE lessons
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