Travel 1,000 years back into the rainforest with this colourful, ready-to-teach PowerPoint history lesson for Year 6! Children discover the amazing Maya civilisation: towering stepped pyramids, the sacred pok-a-tok ball game, glyph writing, brilliant astronomers, and a number system that used zero centuries before Europe - all brought to life with vivid, visual slides and a friendly cartoon teacher guiding the way. The famous chocolate connection (cocoa beans as money!) is a guaranteed class favourite. Two hands-on, interactive activities are ready to teach: cracking real Maya number codes with dots, bars and shells, and a class inquiry debate where teams argue rival theories - drought, war or overuse - for the mysterious Maya Collapse, just like professional historians. Children also examine how we know about the Maya, weighing archaeology, surviving codices and living Maya culture as sources. Fully matched to the KS2 non-European society study. Visual, evidence-rich and zero-prep: open the file and start exploring!