A 10-lesson unit explores the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Over the course of two weeks, scholars read nonfiction excerpts, discuss their findings, and complete activities. An assessment equipped with multiple choice and matching...

Fifth graders explore early American civilizations in a four-week ELA unit. Every lesson offers an opportunity to read and discuss a selected passage followed by word work that covers vocabulary, grammar, and morphology. Learners write...

Native peoples established civilizations all over Central and North America. Introduce native civilizations with a unit that promotes discussion, reinforces map skills, enhances reading comprehension, and exposes young historians to...

What motivated Europeans to explore the New World, and what effects did their exploration have on Native American populations? The second installment of a 16-part American Passages series prompts pupils to watch a video and read several...

Young historians discover the early people of the western hemisphere. The unit explores how the land changed, how it was used and homes of early Americans such as Incas, Mayans, Inuits, Aztecs, and Pueblos. Individuals also examine these...

What better way to celebrate eclipses than across cultures? Explore myths of solar and lunar eclipses from ancient cultures like the Chinese, Ancient Greek, Mesoamerican, Incan, Egyptian, Ancient Babylonian, and Middle Eastern. Learners...

What do the Inca Civilization, Wittenburg Church, and India's economy in the Mughal Period have in common? The well-rounded standardized test challenges scholars to remember all of them. They use different graphics and maps to answer...

Gordon McEwan details the rise and fall of the Inca Empire.

A learning module that begins with "The Inca: Engineering an Empire" by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...

There is a lot to count around the Inca Temple! Help Pedro counting and discover odd and even numbers.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the Inca Empire and shares a theory about how the civilization disappeared. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Assessment in which students examine a significant photo taken in Cuzco, Peru, in 1907, and answer the questions provided.

Join Curi for the festival of the Sun God. Can you work with the big numbers?

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage provides information about the ancient Aztec Empire, including the significance of Montezuma and Tenochtitlan. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....

A learning module on the complexities of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered...

Inca temples are made up of lots of blocks! Visit Cava and help her count the blocks and arrange them properly. You will practice writing 2-digit numbers, putting a set of 2-digit numbers in order, and counting forwards by tens.

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario in a classroom. Those skills include identifying three-digit numbers, putting numbers in ascending and descending order, and rounding numbers to...

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include reading 4-digit numbers, understanding place value, and recording the place value of digits in a 4-digit...

On this interactive website, student practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the Incan pyramids. Those skills include reading numbers from 0 to 30 and matching numbers to the number of objects.

An interactive crossword puzzle game about the Aztec, Maya, and Inca can be found on this site.

Print out a crossword puzzle game about the Aztec, Maya, and Inca on this site.

The World History unit is from Khan Academy. The years 600 to 1450 are included. The Byzantine Empire, European Middle Ages, origins of Islam, spread of Islam, Great Schism, Crusades, Mongols, Song China, Medieval Japan, Maya Empire,...

This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the indigenous cultures of the Americas.