This curriculum unit, intended for students in grade 6, covers the Mayas, Mayan history, and ancient civilizations. The unit was developed using Roger Taylor's collaborative team model "Connecting the Curriculum: Using an Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Thematic Approach." The unit addresses multiple intelligences, brain research, constructivist models of learning, and E. D. Hirsch's cultural literacy terminology. The unit accounts for individual abilities so that all students can participate and be successful. Each thematic set of activities lists resources needed, the anticipatory set, the activity performed, and the product created. Resource lists contain poetry; people; books for students; books, periodicals, and software for teachers; and Web sites. (BT)