Africa Trading Empires Lesson Plan Bundle: Ghana, Mali, Songhai- Digital & Print
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Recently converted to be completely Google Ready in 2023! This bundle is perfect for both a paper-driven or Google classroom environment. Each unit will be provided in printable PDF docs and in a Google Ready linked table of contents for easy planning! Plus, Get 10% off by buying in bulk! Your yearPrice $268.79Original Price $357.94Save $89.15
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With over 320 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all of the West African Empires lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, & assessments you’ll need to teach like a superhero! This unit is perfect for both a paper-driven or Google classroom environment.
In this awesome Medieval History activities bundle students will explore and review the big idea six key concepts (GRAPES). Plus, all of our curriculum units have embedded student accountability with assessments at each step, so progress is data-driven.
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Like all of our Medieval History bundles, the Medieval Africa unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no prep history activities and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.
Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced printable subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:
1.⚡WEST AFRICA INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION LESSON SUBFOLDER-
This lesson is a great introduction and includes a summative activity. Students analyze visuals, primary source excerpts, and map to make predictions about the content they will learn about.
2.⚡AFRICA GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER-
This bundle includes SEVEN geography lesson choices for both student-centered learning and direct instruction. Now it includes a geography quiz!
3.⚡WEST AFRICA VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER- Includes three assignment vocabulary options, review games, and a quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions!
4. ⚡NOTES, READINGS, and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUBFOLDER-
Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content quiz!
- CLOSE READING SET GHANA, MALI, and SONGHAI- The Historical Snapshots include a two-page close reading that covers all of the big idea key concepts, a worksheet, a graphic organizer, annotation guide, and a post-reading comprehension quiz.
- POWERPOINT NOTES, two-page outline PRINTABLE NOTES with a graphic organizer that can be used interchangeably!
- STUDENT-CENTERED READING STATIONS- Reading stations are organized by key concepts for social science and have a worksheet or folding graphic organizer option.
5. ⚡ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER- Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.
- ☀️Epic of Sundiata Primary Source Reading Activity Set - Includes a close reading, graphic organizer, and fun family mask activity.
- ☀️Ibn Battuta Travel Blog and FACETIME Activity-
- Students read Ibn Battuta's diaries, then create a blog of his journeys or conduct an interview. Both Literacy and Writing based!
- ☀️Trans-Saharan Trade Map Activity- This activity comes with an interactive map and an answer key!
- ☀️Mansa Musa Close Reading and Worksheet- Includes an answer key!
- African Fable Griot Battle! In this fun activity, students have several choices in how they would like to tell a fable in class. It comes with writing guides and student handouts and a fun griot mask follow-up assignment!
- ☀️What's Your Destiny?-Close reading and fun comprehension game. Students read and compete in a displayed class game board. Winning students choose a fictitious destiny that is shared with the class!
- ☀️Three empires foldable review activity with examples! This works perfectly with the notes in this bundle!
- ☀️Call-response song for the empires song activity and Music Playlist activity
- ☀️Jingle Mingle Fun Review Interactive - Students mingle about the room finding partners. When the music stops, students address essential learning questions together!
- ☀️Doodle World History Summary Activity- Fun creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key "big idea" concepts.
- Perfect Paragraph Writing Assignment- Includes writing guides and a claim about the economies of West Africa- A claim, evidence, reasoning activity
- ☀️Ghana, Mali, Songhai Venn Diagram with answer key
- ☀️Linkedin Profile Page (resume) worksheet for African Leaders
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Resource Pack
6.⚡1. DAILY SKILL-BASED TEXT ANALYSIS WARM-UPS/ BELLRINGERS – Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.
2. Exit Tickets- Over 40 formats from which to choose! Students support a claim with evidence, Write what they learned or formulate content questions! This is a great informal daily summary.
7.⚡BIG IDEAS- KEY CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBFOLDER -
Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks! Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Writing Guides, Linking the Big Ideas Analysis Activity, Key Concept Storyboard, Key Concepts Foldable Mini-Packet of Resources and a Key Concepts Field Report Summary Activity
8. ⚡STUDY GUIDES, KEY CONCEPT REVIEW, & TEST SUBFOLDER- Each unit comes with a study guide that has students pre-read and define important vocabulary and make meaning of text excerpts that they will also see on the skill-based test! This helps reduce test anxiety while accomplishing the same skill-based reading comprehension goal. Check out the multiple-choice editable Common Core test. Students read excerpts, and support claims with evidence!
This unit also has an alternative Common Core Research Test- Students work individually or paired to answer questions and support their answers from the text. Comes with an answer key, answer document, and two versions that are completely editable.
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❤️We also have a Google Ready Year in Medieval World History Lessons bundle!
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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History lessons and Medieval History lessons, are key-concept based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES. By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers.
Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:
- G= Geography
- R= Religion
- A= Achievements
- P= Politics/Government/Leadership
- E= Economy
- S= Social Classes
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❤️❤️❤️About Mr. and Mrs. P, the teachers behind Instructomania:
We are a Middle School teacher duo with over 40 years of experience in the Middle School classroom! We strive to create history and science lesson plans that inspire teachers and engage students, focusing on history activities for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Our Ancient History and Medieval History curricula includes no prep worksheets and Common Core lessons that have been tested and polished in the classroom. World History activities are created with visually rich graphic organizer worksheets and fun thematic assignments. We hope you and your students love our products as much as we did making and using them in our Middle School classes!
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