Educator Resources

Lesson Plans

  1. Ancient Sounds, Modern Music [PDF] [HTML]
  2. Day of the Dead: Halloween [PDF] [HTML]
  3. Day of the Dead - Make a Remembrance [PDF] [HTML]
  4. Day of the Dead - Sugar skulls [PDF] [HTML]
  5. Endangered Indigenous Languages [PDF] [HTML]
  6. Fingerprint Pot [PDF] [HTML]
  7. Murals & Political Art [PDF] [HTML]
  8. Pottery Reconstruction [PDF] [HTML]
  9. The Changing face of the Earth [PDF] [HTML]
  10. Visual anthropology - Ceramics Technology [PDF] [HTML]
  11. Where did our food originate? [PDF] [HTML]
  12. Chocolate Scavenger Hunt [PDF] [HTML]
  13. Making an Aztec Chocolate Drink [PDF] [HTML]
  14. Stone Objects Game [PDF] [HTML]

Videos

  1. Bloodletting in Mesoamerica [Video] [HTML]
  2. Xocolatl [Video] [HTML]
  3. Latin American Dance [Video] [HTML]
  4. Day of the Dead [Video] [HTML]
  5. Foods of Latin America [Video] [HTML]
  6. Life on the Altiplano [Video] [HTML]
  7. Murals [Video] [HTML]
  8. Music of Latin America [Video] [HTML]
  9. Backstrap Weaving [Video] [HTML]
  10. Yerba Mate [Video] [HTML]
  11. Ixchel: A Guatemalan Weaver Speaks in Mam [Video] [HTML]
  12. The Tsachilas of Ecuador [Video] [HTML]
  13. The Ayoreo of Paraguay [Video] [HTML]
  14. Teotihuacán [Video] [HTML]
  15. Tulum and Chichén Itzá [Video] [HTML]
  16. Machu Picchu [Video] [HTML]
  17. Tiwanaku [Video] [HTML]

Games and Activities

  1. Build Your Own Exhibit! [Flash] [HTML]
  2. Mastodon Bones [Flash] [HTML]
  3. Mayan Sudoku [Flash] [HTML]
  4. Mural Madness [Flash] [HTML]
  5. Ancient Orchestra! [Flash] [HTML]