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Triangular Trade Routes: Map Reading Activity
This product helps students understand the basics of the Triangular Trade during the 17th and 19th centuries. The product comes with a complete teacher key. Ready to use - no prep! You might also be interested in this product:Map Activity: Aztecs, Mayan, and IncasMap Activity: Columbus's First Voyage
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course #24 & Mapping Activity
African Kingdoms and African Geography PowerPoint Notes Activity
In this African Kingdoms and geography PowerPoint and notes activity, you receive a jam-packed 17-page PowerPoint presentation and a 3-page guided notes packet for instruction on African geography and the medieval African kingdoms on Djenne-Djeno, Askum, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and Great Zimbabwe. This unit PowerPoint is synced to work very well with my Africa resources located here!Students are instructed on the geography of Africa, including the Sahara Desert, Nile River, Congo River, Kalahari
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5th - 8th
The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the history of the Transatlantic Slave trade and the effects it had on the development of the African continent.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. T
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Black History Month Program Agenda #7 (EDITABLE/TEMPLATE)
Just insert your pertinent Black History Month information into the enclosed template. Visually appealing front cover and program layout will help make your upcoming Black History Month event more special. Note: template is in Microsoft Publisher format and is 4 pages, laid out in landscape orientation (11" wide x 8.5" high.) Enjoy!!
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Not Grade Specific
Differentiated! PBS Reconstruction America After the Civil War: Hour 1 Guide
*Help students understand the foundation of the Black Lives Matter Movement!*TWO VIDEO GUIDES! Can also be used as homework sheets. +Simplified for struggling students video guide: Fill-in-the-blank 15 questions with answers. +Higher level for advanced students video guide: 25 questions with the answers. It is an incredibly detailed video guide. This first documentary episode is AMAZING. It intersects interviews of historians with images and captivating stories. Topics include:SlaveryUnion Army;
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Top 10 Essential Video Guides for US History ENTIRE YEAR! 1 per unit!
Topics 11-15 Bundle (Medieval Europe- African Civilizations)
These materials follow along and are created with the McGraw Hill World History: Voices and Perspectives (2023) textbook by Jackson J. Spielvogel. Considering this textbook is very new, I hope to provide you with material that will follow along with your textbook and guide your students to a better, more interactive understanding of the material. These PPTs are suited for middle school students.
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Not Grade Specific
Great African Civilizations - Episode 5 - The Atlantic Age Video Questions
AFRICAS GREAT CIVILIZATIONS (PBS), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history - Episode 5 deals with the 15th & 16th centuries with the arrival of European powers and the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - https://www.pbs.org/show/africas-great-civilizations/. Full versions of the episodes are available on Amazon P
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6th - 12th
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A Brief History of the British Empire, Colonisation & Slave Trade - Reading
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of the British Empire, from the first expeditions to the scramble for Africa and the later de-colonisation process after the end of WWII.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
West African Civilizations Golden Age
The lesson begins with an introduction of the Trans-Sahara Trade and the Golden Ages of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. Next, students complete a DBQ to gather specific evidence about those golden ages. The documents include one primary and three secondary sources that describe the civilization. There are also two extension documents (one primary and one secondary) for students that finish the documents early.Finally, students gather three pieces of evidence from the documents to prove that the civili
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9th
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Haitian Revolution DBQ
SWBAT answer the essential question: How did the conditions of Haitian slavery impact the revolution?
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6th - 12th
Jomo Kenyatta & Kwame Nkrumah
The lesson begins with an introduction to the problems nations in Africa faced as they fought for independence. Next, students work in groups of two and each student reads an overview of the independence movements in either Ghana (Nkruhma) or Kenya (Kenyatta). Students fill out a graphic organizer summarizing the problems the nation faced, how they fought for independence, and what the leader promised, and then they share their findings with one another.After both students have shared, they work
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10th
Our Turn to Eat: Ethnic Group Conflict & Cooperation in Africa
Why are there so many wars in Africa? Why is there so much fighting? What’s going on?
A “go-to” answer is that the problem is all caused by ethnic differences. I wrote this lesson after my husband challenged me to reconsider my understanding of the role of ethnicity in African conflicts. The research I did after that convinced me that, while ethnic differences are definitely a major factor, having people of different ethnic groups in a country is not in itself a cause of violence.
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7th - 11th
Rwanda Genocide ICTR Activity
Find out what happened to the organizers of the Rwandan genocide with this interactive activity. Students work together to convict some key players in the Rwandan genocide.
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Bantu Migration
*Requires printing/cutting cards before classThe lesson begins with an introduction to African geography and the Bantu migration. Students are given a map with the years of migration and they have to draw in the migration pattern with arrows. For the main activity, the teacher should print and cut out the descriptions of the causes and effects and put them in envelopes to give the students (the first three are the causes and the last three are the effects). Next, have students organize the cause
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9th
Mythbusters on Africa: Common Core Activity on African cultures, imperialism
This interactive activity asks students to challenge common assumptions on Africa. Students will be assigned a group. Each group will be given two signs: one that says “myth” and one that says “fact.” The included student handout lists 10 statements that are common misconceptions about the people and cultures of Africa. The teacher will present the included google presentation one slide at a time. After students have about one minute to discuss their opinions and evidence found on why they belie
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7th - 12th
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Berlin Conference Reading & Cartoon Analysis
Enhance your lesson on European imperialism with this reading comprehension & cartoon analysis activity that asks students to think critically about the impacts European colonization had on Africa.This worksheet includes a political cartoon depicting the Berlin Conference and a reading about the impact of the Berlin Conference, both with accompanying questions.Great as a homework or introductory activity! Only $1!*******************************************************************************
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7th - 12th
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Legacies of African Imperialism
A case study of Kenya, this lesson serves to help scholars understand what a legacy is and what the various legacies of imperialism are in Kenya. This lesson also serves to point out that legacies are not exclusively positive and there can be negative legacies. The lesson walks through a series of documents with a video summary at the end.
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9th - 12th
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Topic 15: African Civilizations (Bundle)
These materials follow along and are created with the McGraw Hill World History: Voices and Perspectives (2023) textbook by Jackson J. Spielvogel. Considering this textbook is very new, I hope to provide you with material that will follow along with your textbook and guide your students to a better, more interactive understanding of the material. These PPTs are suited for middle school students.
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Not Grade Specific
Gay Rights, Asian, Women, Chicano, Native American, and Disability Rights
What groups other than African Americans fought for civil rights during the Civil Rights Movement? This lesson seeks to expose students to the origins of the Gay Rights Movement, as well as women, Asian, Chicano and the Disability Civil Rights Movement. Students receive a series of readings, take notes, and then present to each other prior to the teacher lecture and provided Youtube links. Topics include:AIM, Richard Oaks, Fish Ins, Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis, Sip-Ins, Ed Roberts a
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9th - 12th
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Bundle: Middle Passage, African American Studies
This bundle includes the slides, notes, assignment and video questions for Roots. These are materials I use to teach the Middle Passage (along with other acquired shared lessons from other teachers) in my African American Studies course.
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9th - 12th
Overview African Resistance to Imperialism
This lesson provides an overview of the ways different African countries resisted to Western imperialism. The lesson starts off with a Notice, Think, Wonder of an ethnic map of Africa. It then moves into a review of the Congress of Berlin and justifications for imperialism. From there, scholars analyze another map that demonstrates the resistance movements in Africa between 1881-1906. A quick excerpt from the Black Man's Burden leads into a video detailing specifically the resistance that occurr
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9th - 12th
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7 Challenges of Africa Book
This book is designed to explore the challenges of Africa along with organizations that trying to help create long-term solutions to them.
***There is a PDF and PowerPoint versions.
7 Challenges Covered in this Book:
Famine
Drought
Diseases
HIV/AIDS
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4th - 11th
ESPN 30 for 30 Documentary: The 16th Man Video questions and answer key
Video questions that go along with the ESPN 30 for 30: The 16th Man. The 16th Man details the story of Nelson Mandela and the 1995 South African Rugby team, the Springboks. The film is useful for investigating Nelson Mandela, the end of Apartheid and the role of sport in changing hearts and minds of people around the world. File includes possible answers as well.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: ESPN 30 for 30 Sports Video Questions Bundle
Rwandan Genocide Handout
This handout takes students through the imperialist history of Rwanda up to the genocide. There are several primary and secondary source documents used to help students analyze what happened, including a link to a clip from Hotel Rwanda.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: African History Bundle
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