# Stage 2 HSIE Unit 2 PowerPoint | Ancient Maya Aztec Inca | Mesoamerica and the Andes **Price:** $20.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** year3, year4 **Subjects:** humanitiesAndSocialSciences ## Description (seller-submitted) Teach Stage 2 HSIE Unit 2: Mesoamerica and the Andes with a comprehensive student-facing PowerPoint covering the ancient Maya, Aztec and Inca civilisations. This ancient history unit includes 351 slides across 16 lessons , plus 4 optional consolidation activities , providing a clear visual sequence for introducing concepts, guiding class discussion, modelling historical thinking, checking understanding and supporting independent application. The slides are designed for display on an interactive whiteboard, smartboard or classroom screen. They help teachers present the unit content in a consistent, structured and student-friendly format. Students investigate the location of Mesoamerica and the Andes on maps and globes how geography and environment shaped where the Maya, Aztec and Inca lived ancient structures including Machu Picchu, Chichén Itzá and the Templo Mayor how ancient designs and building techniques influenced modern architecture ancient recording systems including codices, hieroglyphs, pictograms and quipu how astronomy shaped calendars, farming and ceremony ancient number systems, including the Maya concept of zero animals, crops and farming practices suited to each environment terraces, chinampas and other ways people adapted to their landscape goods traded across ancient regions and why they were valuable similarities and differences between ancient and modern trade how sources are used as evidence to draw conclusions about the past What is included 351 PowerPoint slides 16 sequenced ancient history lessons 4 optional consolidation activities 16 individual lesson files plus a combined full-unit file with a clickable contents page learning intentions and success criteria key vocabulary word cards with student-friendly definitions discussion and prior-knowledge prompts explicit teaching slides linked videos, 3D models and primary sources teacher-modelled examples, think-alouds and sentence stems checks for understanding with click-to-reveal answers indepe… [truncated] --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6a798cb7-dc70-45d2-a5b4-675bbdecf443 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au