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Have students develop questions they want to know about the Nobel Peace Prize. Rigoberta Menchú won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.

Have students make up word problems using the information from the chart, such as “How much longer does it take Venus to travel around the sun than it takes Earth?” or “Which planet takes the longest time to travel around the sun?” Have students research and make a class list of how long it takes other planets to travel around the sun. Encourage students to challenge each other with similar problems.Īs explained in Math, Science, Writing and Art , the Maya accurately calculated the number of days it takes Venus to travel around the sun-approximately 584 days. Then write a number using the Maya method and challenge students to determine what the number is. Have students use the information in Math, Science, Writing and Art to learn how the Maya wrote large numbers. After writing a few practice numbers as a class, give students a large number, such as 2,798, and ask each student to try to write it the Maya way. Have students trade papers and keys and try to decipher the sentences. Students should then use pictures to make a sentence and create a key showing what each hieroglyph means. They can draw the hieroglyphic and show the class, explaining why they selected their nickname. Students can then give themselves appropriate Maya-like nicknames that can be shown in picture form, such as Jeweled Skull or Jaguar. To start, they should study the hieroglyphs shown in Math, Science, Writing and Art and in Uncovering the Secrets of the Maya. Have students try their hand at creating hieroglyphs of their own. Each student should then select one country in Central America and research the current population, crops, important products exported, and so on.

Students can then fill in the names of all the countries, their capitals, mountain ranges, major rivers, and the bodies of water surrounding Central America.

Provide students with blank maps of Central America or have them draw their own maps. Then have them locate Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, the Yucatán peninsula, and the Gulf of Mexico. To familiarize students with where the Maya lived, have them first locate Central America on a map or globe.