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Remembering the Aztecs

  • Identify historical artifacts that represent Aztec beliefs as related to the elements of worldview.
  • Determine which artifacts best represent the Aztec worldview.

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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 8.3.1 - Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview influences the society's choices, decisions and interactions with others (C, I)
Specific Outcome 8.3.4.1 - What were the key elements of the worldview of the Aztec civilization prior to contact with the Spanish? (TCC, I, CC)
Specific Outcome 8.3.4.2 - How did the Aztec civilization’s worldview influence the Aztecs' choices, decisions and customs? (TCC, CC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.1 - Students will analyze the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.5 - Students will generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.6 - Students will access diverse viewpoints on particular topics by using appropriate technologies
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.1 - Students will distinguish cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including the long- and short-term causal relations
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.3 - Students will analyze the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.4 - Students will create a simulation or a model by using technology that permits the making of inference
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.5 - Students will identify patterns in organized information
Specific Outcome 8.S.3.1 - Students will interpret historical maps to broaden understanding of historical events
Specific Outcome 8.S.3.4 - Students will define geographic problems and issues and pose geographic questions
Specific Outcome 8.S.3.6 - Students will access and operate multimedia applications and technologies from stand-alone and online sources; e.g., GIS
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.1 - Students will demonstrate skills of compromise and devise strategies to reach group consensus
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.2 - Students will propose and apply new ideas and strategies, supported with facts and reasons, to contribute to problem solving and decision making
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.3 - Students will propose and apply strategies or options to solve problems and deal with issues
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.5 - Students will articulate clearly a plan of action to use technology to solve a problem
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.8 - Students will use networks to brainstorm, plan and share ideas with group members
Specific Outcome 8.S.5.2 - Students will consider the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome 8.S.5.3 - Students will demonstrate leadership within groups where appropriate
Specific Outcome 8.S.5.4 - Students will access, retrieve and share information from electronic sources, such as common files
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.1 - Students will integrate and synthesize concepts to provide an informed point of view on a research question or an issue
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.2 - Students will develop a position that is supported by information gathered through research
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.3 - Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.5 - Students will organize and synthesize researched information
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.7 - Students will practise the responsible and ethical use of information and technology
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.9 - Students will plan and conduct a search, using a wide variety of electronic sources
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.10 - Students will demonstrate the advanced search skills necessary to limit the number of hits desired for online and offline databases; for example, the use of "and" or "or" between search topics and the choice of appropriate search engines for the topic
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.11 - Students will develop a process to manage volumes of information that can be made available through electronic sources
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.12 - Students will evaluate the relevance of electronically accessed information to a particular topic
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.13 - Students will make connections among related, organized data, and assemble various pieces into a unified message
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.14 - Students will refine searches to limit sources to a manageable number
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.15 - Students will analyze and synthesize information to create a product
Specific Outcome 8.S.8.1 - Students will communicate in a persuasive and engaging manner through speeches, multimedia presentations and written and oral reports, taking particular audiences and purposes into consideration
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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