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Article: Cyberhunt activities: amazing aztecs.(educational internet)
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Bring the ancient civilization of the Aztecs to life with these Internet-based classroom activities for middle and upper graders. Before you begin, distribute the Reproducible, opposite.
Aztec Picture Books
What was Aztec language like? Visit http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/glossary.html, http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/awaztec.html, and the Web sites at far right to find out. Discuss how the symbols for many nouns were drawings of what the word meant. These were bound into accordion books, or codices. Ask students, working in pairs, to devise their own picture definitions, speculating about how some Aztec words may have looked. Distribute strips ...