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Aztec Lesson Plan

This lesson plan explores the Aztec culture and how it influenced their worldview. Students will learn about aspects of Aztec culture like food, art, and rituals. They will analyze a poem and sculpture to understand how the Aztec worldview is reflected in their culture. As an assessment, students will compare and contrast two pieces of Aztec art, analyzing how the culture is depicted. The learning activities include a discussion on culture and worldviews, a video on Aztec food, and an activity where students read a poem and examine a sculpture to understand how the Aztec perception of the world is represented.

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Aztec Lesson Plan

This lesson plan explores the Aztec culture and how it influenced their worldview. Students will learn about aspects of Aztec culture like food, art, and rituals. They will analyze a poem and sculpture to understand how the Aztec worldview is reflected in their culture. As an assessment, students will compare and contrast two pieces of Aztec art, analyzing how the culture is depicted. The learning activities include a discussion on culture and worldviews, a video on Aztec food, and an activity where students read a poem and examine a sculpture to understand how the Aztec perception of the world is represented.

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Grade 8 Lesson Plans

Grade: 8 / Title: Aztec Culture → ONLINE!

STAGE 1-DESIRED RESULTS

Brief explanation:
This lesson explores the ways in which the culture of the Aztecs that influenced their worldview. Students will be
learning about various aspects and features of the Aztec culture (ex. Foods, art, rituals, etc.). They will engage in
an activity of analyzing reading a poem and examining a sculpture, and explaining how they reflect the Aztec
worldview.

Big Ideas/s Inquiry Questions


○ Students will be learning that a culture deeply ○ What is culture?
influences the way individuals perceive the world. ○ Does culture influence worldview?
The Aztec were heavily religious people and it
reflected in their acts and traditions. These beliefs ○ What are some features of the Aztec
also influenced how they interacted with the culture?
spanish ○ How is the Aztec worldview reflected in
their culture?

Knowledge and Understandings: Skills and Process:


○ What were the key elements of the worldview of ○ 8.S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and
the Aztec civilization prior to contact with the creative thinking
Spanish? (TCC, I, CC) ○ 8.S.2 develop skills of historical thinking
○ How did the Aztec civilization’s worldview
influence the Aztecs’ choices, decisions and
customs? (TCC, CC, PADM)
Values and attitudes:
○ 8.3.1 appreciate how a society’s worldview
influences the society’s choices, decisions and
interactions with other societies (C, I)

STAGE 2-ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

Task or Activity: Evidence:


○ Students will be working on comparing and - Class discussions/participation (f)
analyzing two pieces of Aztec art and how their - Aztec worksheet corresponding with the
culture is reflected within it. textbook they’re using (s)
○ Poem & Sculpture
○ How is Aztec worldview (perception of
the world) reflected in these art pieces?

STAGE 3-LEARNING PLAN (40 minute)

Summary of Learning Activities:

○ Discussion about what is culture? What are some factors that make up culture?
○ Q: Does culture influence worldview?
○ Intro into features of the Aztec cultures
○ Q: What did the Aztecs eat?
○ Video: Poor Man’s Chocolate
○ 1:33 to 2:16 (& and maybe funny intro?)
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZ3CtRiSPU
○ *Indigenous parallels and perspectives within
○ Ex. oral tradition, resource depletion, etc.
○ Activity → students will take a few minutes to read poem and try to answer corresponding questions,
and then repeat for the sculpture. And then we’ll come together to discuss their questions and how the
aztec worldview is reflected in these pieces of their culture
○ Poem → excerpt from The Flower Tree
○ Sculpture → Cycle of life, three faces

Teacher Notes:

Slideshow
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rjwawrigIwy0vmmLX8Du1WXmzt9K8k-A/edit#slide=id.p5

Teacher Reflections:
○ Had originally planned for a group discussion, in person → changed b/c went online & partner teacher
warned away from using breakout groups w/ the class

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