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Maya Chocolate Artefact Kit KS2
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https://www.tts-international.com/maya-chocolate-artefact-kit-ks2/1018428.htmlProduct Code: 708-HI10063
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Why you'll love this product
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Historical Exploration
Delve into the rich history of chocolate with this kit, featuring traditional Maya tools such as a flint, metate, and whisk for an authentic experience.
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Engaging Learning
This kit offers a hands-on approach to learning, allowing a child to explore the historical significance of cocoa as a currency and its cultural impact.
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Comprehensive Components
The kit includes dried cocoa pods, a flint millipede, whisk, grinding stone, bowl, cocoa beans, and bark paper, providing diverse tools for historical demonstrations.
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Curriculum Support
Supports Key Stage 2 History curriculum, focusing on British history themes that extend chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
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Chronological Knowledge
Focuses on British history through a thematic exploration of the economic and cultural significance of chocolate, aligned with the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
Maya Chocolate Artefact Kit KS2
Explore the origins of chocolate with traditional Maya tools and artefacts.
Overview
Provides an engaging introduction to the history of chocolate and its significance within Maya culture.
This educational kit allows children to explore the historical uses of chocolate, originally cultivated by the Maya. It includes artefacts such as cocoa beans, flint, a metate, whisk, and bowl which facilitate hands-on learning about Maya processes and the cultural importance of chocolate.
Intended to support the Key Stage 2 History curriculum, this kit helps extend children's chronological knowledge by exploring the use of chocolate as a currency and trade item in Maya civilisation. Resources enable teachers to deliver practical and interactive history lessons that capture the economic influence of chocolate.
Designed with authentic materials, the kit creates a bridge connecting past and present, offering students a tangible way to understand historical contexts. This approach encourages an engaging and comprehensive exploration of British history themes, particularly those extending beyond 1066.
Supports the National Curriculum
History, Key Stage 2, British History
A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
History, Key Stage 2, Stone Age to Iron Age
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. From late Neolithic hunters-gathers. Bronze Age religion, technology and travel. Iron Age hill forts, tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture.
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Overview
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3 x Dried Cocoa Pods, 1 x Flint Millipede, 1 x Whisk, 1 x Metate (Grinding Stone), 1 x Bowl, 1 x Bag of Cocoa Beans, 1 x Bark Paper
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