July 13, 2011: Discovering Machu Picchu

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Activities:

1. Paste a newspaper picture of an interesting building in your community on a piece of paper. Write a sentence telling why it is special.

2. Circle newspaper pictures and words for building materials we use today. How are they different from building materials used by the Incas?

3. Find five people in the newspaper who could have helped the Incas have better lives. Explain your choices.

4. How were these important to the Incas: (a) large stones, (b) colored string, (c) drums and trumpets, and (d) the Spanish?

5. Write a story about a young person living in Machu Picchu

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand the characteristics, distribution and migration of human populations on Earth’s surface. (Geography: Human Systems)
  
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)