Andean/Inca Region - Geographic Setting, Pre-Inca and Inca History, Quechua and Aymara Living Cultures

Calendar Circle + Cultural Care Promise + greet each other with vetted Quechua greeting 'rimaykullayki'

• Lead routine standing
• Affirm continuity with prior lessons

Show MG-3 map A. Locate Andean cordillera (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile), altiplano, Lake Titicaca, Cusco (Inca capital), Machu Picchu. Show MG-2 Band 2: Wari c. 600-1000; Tiwanaku c. 600-1000; Inca state founding c. 1200; Pachacuti's reign c. 1438-1471. CRITICAL FRAMING: name Quechua and Aymara as LIVING peoples today. Show MG-11 photo 1 (Quechua weaver from CTTC). Read aloud the read-aloud picture book.

• Notice the present tense. The Andean culture is not 'lost' or 'ancient' - it is present here, now, today.

  model The Quechua and Aymara peoples (and many other Andean peoples) live in the Andes today. They are descendants of - and continuators of - the Wari, Tiwanaku, Inca, and many other earlier Andean cultures.

  prompt How would we name the people of the Andean region today, in present tense?

• Name two contemporary Andean peoples. Where is Cusco? What is the altiplano?

Children examine MG-11 photo 1 (Quechua weaver photo from CTTC) as a primary source representing a living culture. They identify the photographer credit and year. Apply the LIVING-CULTURE-PHOTO routine. They listen to the vetted Quechua greeting recording (MG-16 audio 5) and the oral-tradition excerpt (MG-16 audio 2).

M-3-S-CUL-07-A Map

MG-3 map A 24x36-inch laminated map with Andean cordillera highlighted, Lake Titicaca, key Inca sites (Cusco, Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuaman, Ollantaytambo, Pisac), key contemporary Andean cultural centers (Cusco, La Paz, Quito) with Quechua and Aymara language regions shaded. Equator visible in northern Andes (Ecuador).

MG-3 Map

Mounted along one classroom wall as a coordinated set. The four-region framing is INTENTIONAL - it teaches that geography is the precondition for cultural development without becoming geographic determinism. Children locate the same Equator across all four maps to teach KS2 Geog 1.1.A. The contemporary borders on each map (alongside the historical sites) enforce the present-tense protocol - the regions are CURRENT places, not erased pasts.

M-3-S-CUL-07-B Photograph

MG-11 photo 1 - high-resolution contemporary photograph of a Quechua weaver from the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco (CTTC) at the loom. 4-line caption: 'Quechua weaver, CTTC, Peru, 2019 (photo: CTTC archive, with permission).' The 'with permission' line is INTENTIONAL - it teaches that living-culture photographs require source permission.

MG-11 Photograph

Mounted on classroom wall as a grouped 4x4 grid. Used in lessons 7-14 as the LIVING-CULTURE PHOTO routine source set. The 4-per-culture standard is INTENTIONAL - equal weighting. Critical teacher protocol: source these photos with permission from the cultural organizations represented (CTTC for Andean; Polynesian Voyaging Society for Polynesian; Mande cultural organizations; Chinese cultural organizations). The 'photographer credit' and 'year' lines enforce that these are real contemporary images by named photographers in named years - not generic stock photography.

• In pairs, locate three Andean features on MG-3 map A: cordillera, altiplano, Lake Titicaca.

  scaffold Teacher checks each pair
• Listen to MG-16 audio 2 (vetted Quechua oral-tradition excerpt). Complete a mini Source Detective Card.

  scaffold Sentence frames in each box; pair-share before writing

• Name TWO Andean peoples who live in the Andes today (present tense).
• What is the altiplano?

• Restate: 'The Andean culture is present today, carried by Quechua and Aymara peoples'
• Preview lesson 8's Andean innovations deep-dive

• Discuss today's lesson with a caregiver and record 2 sentences.