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Aztec Ruins Teacher's Guide
Teacher's Guide Introduction
File Type: PDF, 398 KB
This file contains the Table of Contents, Introduction, How To Use This Guide, and Education Standards. This section is important for understanding how the guide can be used and how the lesson plans relate to New Mexico State Education Standards. It also addresses the connections this place has to Pueblo people of today. The introduction includes a summary of the most recent archeological interpretations of the site, which is excellent background information for a class visit.
Lessons
These files contain the Student Projects and are devided up by levels. Lessons 1-9 are Beginner, Lessons 10-12 are Intermediate, and Lessons 13-15 are Advanced.
Teacher's Guide Lesson 1 - Using Plants to Meet Basic Needs
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This is the first of two lessons that explore how the ancestral Pueblo people used plants. This lesson introduces students to the concept of plants helping to fulfill basic needs; the second concentrates on the identification, description, and uses of plants.
Teachers Guide Lesson 2 - Identifying Plants
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This is the second of two lessons that explore how the Ancestral Pueblo people used plants. This lesson concentrates on the identification, description, and uses of plants. The first introduced students to the concept of plants helping to fulfill basic needs.
Teachers Guide Lesson 3 - Resources Near and Far
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Examine replica artifacts and discuss their materials and uses.
Teachers Guide Lesson 4 - Corn
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Observe, record, and discuss findings about the Ancestral Puebloan use of corn.
Teachers Guide Lesson 5 - Directions to the Past
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Identify map locations and write map instructions for others.
Teachers Guide Lesson 6 - Graffiti
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Differentiate between graffiti, petroglyphs, and pictographs.
Teachers Guide Lesson 7 - Poetry in Ruins
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In their study of Aztec Ruins, students will use sensory perception, imagination, and writing exercises to observe and examine the Ancestral Pueblo buildings.
Teachers Guide Lesson 8 - Impacts on the Environment
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Today, most people realize that resources such as water, aluminum, electricity, and gasoline are depletable and should be conserved or re-cycled. In the same way, prehistoric people needed to be careful when harvesting or col-lecting raw materials so as not to destroy their supply.
Teachers Guide Lesson 9 - Now and Then _ A Scavenger Hunt
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Compare artifacts and building features of the prehistoric inhabitants to those of people today.
Teachers Guide Lesson 10 - Imagination Pots
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Observe and identify different pottery styles.
Teachers Guide Lesson 11 - Living in the Past, Present, and Future
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Compare different ways that past, present, and future people meet basic human needs.
Teachers Guide Lesson 12 - The Life of an Artifact
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Combine observations, inferences, and knowledge into creative writing about the life of an artifact.
Teachers Guide Lesson 13 - Investigating Great Houses
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Students apply the scientific method to investigate the Aztec West great house.
Teachers Guide Lesson 14 - Raising the Roofs
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Investigate the origin of and materials used in prehistoric roof construction.
Teachers Guide Lesson 15 - What Happened Here
File Type: PDF, 149 KB
Utilize all that you have learned in the previous lessons for a culminating study of the ancestal Pueblo.
Additional Resources
Teacher's Guide Resources
File Type: PDF, 1.52 MB
This file contains Archeologist Profiles, Glossary of Terms, Reference List, and a Teacher Comment and Evaluation Form.
Details
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- American Indian History and Culture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Architecture (Building Styles and Methods), Art, Astronomy, Environment, Geometry, Historic Preservation, History, Landscapes, Literature, Mathematics, Museum Studies, Poetry, Social Studies
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Last updated: May 1, 2018