Students study to artifacts from Ghana and discuss how these aid in understanding the civilization.

Students build off of their current knowledge of geography and world history, while being introduced to new concepts and ideas.

Students are introduced to the ancient Mayan civilization through their writings. They explore a social studies focus on the destruction of many Mayan writings by the Spanish and what archaeologists have learned from the writings that...

In this lesson, students learn how historians think the pyramids were built and why they were built-as doorways to the afterlife for the pharaohs.

Slideshow presentation of the seven characteristics or elements of a civilization.