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🗺️ 7th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.14.6-8Unit 3: Civilizations of the Americas

Encounter and conquest

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🎯 Objective: Students explain why the Aztec and Inca empires fell.

Lesson outline

  1. Cause cards.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one cause.

Lesson 4 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.14.6-8

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Civilizations of the Americas”

  1. The Maya
  2. The Aztec
  3. The Inca
  4. Encounter and conquest

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