★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #9
Tenochtitlan DBQ
How did the Aztecs build a great city on a lake?
How do you build a city of 200,000 people on a lake? Students solve the engineering problem themselves, then test their ideas against chinampas, causeways, and eyewitness accounts.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (17 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (27 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample essay
- Scaffolded version (10 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- A chinampa diagram
- Bernal DÃaz sees the city
- DÃaz on the Tlatelolco market
- Cortés on the causeways
- Codex Mendoza tribute page
- Map of the Basin of Mexico
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 54 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.G.HE.1, 7.G.HE.2, 7.E.IC.2, 7.I.Q, 7.I.UE, 7.I.CC