EmpireCraft: Rebuilding Tenochtitlan

The Process

Part 1: 

1. Engineering Design Process

Possible Answers

2. Empathy and Perspective Taking

3 - 5 minutes - On a blank piece of paper respond to these questions as an exit slip. Be sure to put your name on them.

1.  What do you think they felt as they were going through this problem?

2.  What needs would they have had to meet?

Part 2: 

Sketch the Tenochititlan Layout in your groups

You will need to:

• sketch the layout of the city

• sketch out how each building/location may have looked

Build ideas generated in the engineering design process and Tenochtitlan layout.

Part 3: 

Complete your notes for chapter 8

• The Aztec Social Hierarchy

• Aztec Education

• Contributing to Society

Build aspects of Tenochititlan that reflect the Aztec social structure, education and their contribution to society.

Part 4:

Complete notes for chapter 9

• Geography

• Creating a Christian Spain

• Gold and Glory

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