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MAYAN ESCAPE ROOM
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Learning Objective: The main focus is to learn about the Maya civilisation from a vocabulary of history perspective
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escape room
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Optional Step 5
Step 4
Extra resources
Debate
Step 3
Tips
Independent research
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Step 2
Step 1
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Reading exercise+3 Integrated Videos
Padlet
Overview of lesson: The Maya civilisation
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WERNER FORMAN/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/GETTY IMAGES
Padlet link
What words come to mind when you think of Latin America? Do you know anything about the Mayan culture? If not what do you think the Mayan culture could be about? Look at the image and discuss your thoughts in the padlet below
Padlet Thoughts
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Lesson Overview
Click for escape room
Step 2 Reading activity + 3 Integrated Videos
Tips
You may need to refer back to the article for the answers
Step 1 1.Click on the reading exercise link (blue chain). 2. Read the article and watch the three videos 3. Once you have completed the reading exercise and watched the videos you can now begin the escape room quiz.
Modern Day cOSTA rICA
Modern day Guatamala
Modern Day Colombia
01/05
Where did the Maya live?
The Mayan Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D.
correct!
Well Done! You got It right!
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When do the earliest settlements date back to?
1300AC
1800BC
1700BC
02/05
correct!
The earliest Maya settlements date to around 1800 B.C., or the beginning of what is called the Preclassic or Formative Period.
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BC. 1000
AD. 500-900
A.D. 250-900
03/05
When was the Mayan classic period/Golden era?
correct!
The Classic Period, which began around A.D. 250, was the golden age of the Maya Empire.
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Is Mayan only used in the adjective form? Did you notice a difference in the article?
Yes always
yes but it depends who you ask
Sometimes
04/05
(Maestri, N 2019)
To English speakers, the form "Mayan" as an adjective sounds right. You wouldn't say "Spain ruins", you'd say "Spanish ruins," you wouldn't say "Mesopotamia civilization," you'd say "Mesopotamian civilization." However, archaeologists, particularly those who study the Maya people, prefer to write of the Maya civilization.
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A TERM USED BY THE SPANISH TO DESCRIBE THE MAYA PEOPLE IN PERIOD AD 500
A term used to describe Colombia and central America after the 16th century Spanish conquest
(a term used to describe Mexico and Central America before the 16th century Spanish conquest).
05/05
What does mesmoamerica mean?
(Dictionary n.d)
The correct answer for the last question is:
Mesoamerica: The area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
THE GODS BLESS YOU WITH THIS OFFERING
You have made it through the first round
YOU HAVE FAILED...
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True or False
The ball game
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1/3
the ball game the maya played is called ULAMA
false
true ✔
Was the tree bark that the Maya made called Codices?
2/3
false
true ✔
3/3
In modern-day Costa rica and Central America, around 5 million people speak some 50 Maya languages; most of them are bilingual in Spanish.
false ✔
true
History (2023) Maya
The correct answer for the last question is:
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In modern-day Mexico and Central America, around 5 million people speak some 70 Maya languages; most of them are bilingual in Spanish.
YOU HAVE FAILED!!!
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the end
YOU HAVE PASSED THE MAYAN TEST
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Think about the article you read before the escape room along with the videos you have watched and write down 3 things you have learned about the Maya. Any thing that interests you in particular and why?
Debate
Article link
Padlet Link
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Lesson Overview
Now it´s your time to investigate Extension: Re read the article and research words that you are not familiar with following this up with the link below, post your findings on padlet
Independent Research
Overview lesson
Click on the icon/button for the link
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I spent 4 weeks in Guatemala to learn THIS Mayan language
The ancient Mayan sport making a comeback – BBC REEL
Are you interesed in more about the mayans Here are some extra resources to have some fun in your spare time with
Extra resources
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Dictionary (n.d) https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mesoamerica History (2023) Maya https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-americas/maya Maestri, N (2019) Maya or Mayan https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-maya-mayans-most-accepted-term-171569#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20in%20English%20language%20Maya,distinction%20between%20singular%20or%20plural.
References
Overview lesson
Material by Samantha Puri
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