The Mayans and the Anglo Saxons

Using these activities learners can compare the ways of life in the areas of farmimg, writing, education, mathematics, astronomy, types of settlement and religion. The activities are fun and encourage group work, while teaching learners how to organise information and write to compare.

The main activity is an information gap task, where groups of learners have different information about the Mayans and the Anglo Saxons. Learners listen to each other, and then organise the information using the table provided. A PowerPoint slide provides guidance on writing sentences to compare using different connectives, which can be used to help learners write paragraphs about what they have learnt. A comparison sort activity can be used to check if learners have retained the information they have learnt.

Resource downloads

On the right hand side of this page are a number of documents that you can download for free. Please note that the Teaching Notes and Resources can be found in the pdf document (the first item on the list), whilst the PowerPoint document(s) include(s) presentation(s) which you can display on your interactive board in your classroom.

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