AzTechnology: 2.0 Worlds Collide

This week, our group was learning about Aztec Daily Life. To help us,we imagined that we were in an Aztec world.

We learned about what the Aztec used like weapons they made them from stone and clay ornaments.  We learned about  the way the Aztecs used pottery to make sun stones and calender stones .We learned that the Aztecs made all types of stones to tell the weather and tell what time of the year it is,they used some stones to honor their Gods. 

Have a look at some of the replica pieces of pottery and sun dials that we made in our group.

Other interesting facts we learned through research on the internet was that the Aztecs didnt have good health or they didnt have good education for children, especially girls. But they were very good hunters.They had lots of interesting food and in particular they like to eat chilli. They didnt have tooth paste,tooth brushes or medicine so if someone got bitten by a snake they couldn’t go to the doctor or to the hospital.

We are recording all of our work in interesting ways.  In this part of the project, we enjoyed taking lots of photos, even though the camera got a bit messy!! WE then inserted the pictures into documents to make a report, like a newspaper newsflash about a boy who fell into an Aztec time zone and his adventures as he beemed his story back to the 21st Century, using….technology!!!

This week, our group was learning about Aztec Daily Life.

We learned about Aztec daily life . We learned about what the Aztecs wear, boys and girls.

There are many aspects to Aztec daily life, but the one we like best was jewellery.

We chose jewllery because we still wear it today and we wanted to know what their jewellery looked like . We learned that Aztec people liked to wear Jewellery, they made it with clay. They used the colours Gold & Silver. Women often wore the Torc style Bracelet & Necklace. There are many other examples of  Jewellery such as the Bangle or a Ring.We made jewellery out of clay .We all picked it and we all worked as a group .

We searched on Google Images to get pictures of jewellery . We used our  teachers laptop in the class to print the images .

We recorded our work by inserting pictures and made newspaper reports on Open Office 4 kids. We made a report about Daily life that could  have been written by a 21st century child who went back to the Aztec world.

We enjoyed it and learned a lot about the Aztec daily life 🙂

Around 1300 AD, the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico. Other tribes already lived there, so the Aztecs had to put up with living in swampy land on the edge of Lake Texcoco. But the Aztecs were very clever and found ways of living in difficult conditions.

Our class has been divided into groups for an Aztec Project. Our group is made up of the following girls: Nicole, Callie, Nadja and Ashleigh. The first part of our project is about how the Aztecs lived and their houses, 🙂 We learned about the way the made their homes, from sun-dried bricks. The Aztec homes had many flowers nearby and were close to a pool. 😀

The Aztecs lived a very simple life. Their houses weren’t very fancy though, To show this, we decided to create a model of an Aztec house (see picture). Before we could make the house we had to plan the making of it and we had to negociate and assign jobs:

 We painted the house brown and the furniture gold. Ashleigh made the backdrop and little play-dough people, Nadja and Nicole made the sky and painted the house and Callie made some more play-dough people and furniture for the Aztec house. Throughout the building of the model, we took pictures and although our work did look very good it was important to document it too, so we wrote a newspaper report and acted like newspaper reporters. We also wrote blogs. Ashleigh and Nicole did the newspaper report and me and Nadja wrote the blogs. 🙂

We learned that it’s a bit hard to work in groups because all of the people in the group have different ideas and you have to decide which to do. It only took us about 45 minutes to do this part of the project, But it was great fun! We love doing the project because it is very enjoyable and fun ! 😛

By Callie and Nadja, Ashleigh and Nicole (: