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African history Common Core WHST.6-8.2d resources
The Five Regions of Africa 5-E Lesson | African Geography and Culture | Google
This lesson examines the five regions of Africa by exploring the continent’s diverse cultures & geography. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Begin with a fun “Rank It - Continents” warm-up. Then, a “Divide It” activity challenges your class to examine 4 thematic maps to determine how best to divide Africa into 5 regions. Next, students create labeled maps featuring the 5 regions of Africa. An “Inv
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6th - 12th
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Ghana, Mali, Songhai Project - Real Estate Advertisement or Commercial
Your students will assume the role of real estate agents from medieval West Africa. They can work on their own or collaboratively to convince homebuyers to move to a kingdom of their choice - Ghana, Mali, or Songhai. Your students can create a persuasive commercial or an advertisement.Included in the Product✓ Brief introduction✓ Five requirements✓ Five advertising strategies✓ Two rubrics✓ Planning guide✓ TemplatesRelated Choice Board:Ghana, Mali, & Songhai Choice BoardRelated Resources:Med
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
Intro to Africa Unit BUNDLE | Geography Culture History Modern Issue | Microsoft
This Intro to Africa BUNDLE explores the continent’s geography, cultures, history and modern issues. The activities are engaging for students & the guided lesson formats are easy for you to use! Build or enrich your curriculum with a variety of FUN materials both you and your students will LOVE! The bundle has print & interactive, digital versions of the resources. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 classrooms. Everything you need is included!Includes Microsoft Resourc
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6th - 12th
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Souvenirs from Africa Research Design Project | African Regions PBL | Google
Project-based learning is a fun way to investigate the 5 regions of Africa. Guided slides help you introduce & explain the project. First, a research guide challenges students to identify & explain each region’s unique geographic & cultural features. Then, they complete a design project creating & displaying souvenirs from each African region. They place their souvenirs on shelves, walls, furniture & floors to decorate their bedroom templates. Students write descriptions expl
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6th - 12th
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Intro to Africa Unit BUNDLE | Geography Culture History Modern Issues | Google
This Intro to Africa BUNDLE explores the continent’s geography, cultures, history and modern issues. The activities are engaging for students & the guided lesson formats are easy for you to use! Build or enrich your curriculum with a variety of FUN materials both you and your students will LOVE! The bundle has print & interactive, digital versions of the resources. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 classrooms. Everything you need is included!Includes Google Resources
Grades:
6th - 12th
Five Regions of Africa 5-E Lesson | African Geography and Culture | Microsoft
This lesson examines the five regions of Africa by exploring the continent’s diverse cultures & geography. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Begin with a fun “Rank It - Continents” warm-up. Then, a “Divide It” activity challenges your class to examine 4 thematic maps to determine how best to divide Africa into 5 regions. Next, students create labeled maps featuring the 5 regions of Africa. An “Inv
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6th - 12th
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Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
Students will have the opportunity to work individually, with partners and in a group to create or complete the following activities and projects about medieval West Africa (Ghana, Mali & Songhai): advertisements, commercials, poems, talk shows, brochures, book jackets, movie trailers, scrapbooks, speeches, board games, currencies, skits and newspapers.Related Choice Board:Ghana, Mali, & Songhai Choice Board
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6th - 8th
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Souvenirs from Africa Research Design Project | African Regions PBL | Microsoft
Project-based learning is a fun way to investigate the 5 regions of Africa. Guided slides help you introduce & explain the project. First, a research guide challenges students to identify & explain each region’s unique geographic & cultural features. Then, they complete a design project creating & displaying souvenirs from each African region. They place their souvenirs on shelves, walls, furniture & floors to decorate their bedroom templates. Students write descriptions expl
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6th - 12th
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Apartheid Nelson Mandela in South Africa
This project gives students the opportunity to delve deep into the era of apartheid, between 1948 and 1994. While there is a lot of room for creativity and an opportunity for originality, students will base their information on historical evidence.The resource comes with a detailed explanation of each section required in the newspaper and a detailed rubric, along with 12 newspaper templates. Students will include the following sections in their newspaper:✓ Title✓ News Story #1✓ News Story #2✓
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6th - 8th
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It's Trevor Noah - Born a Crime (Young Adult Version) Chapter Questions & Key
40+ PAGES of questions and answers! This unit plan utilizes Trevor Noah's It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (YA edition) to introduce and teach 20th century African history, resilience, and coming of age/adolescence. This resource is individual chapter questions and answers for each. 40 pages of questions and answers in total! Also included is an Anticipation Guide for students to respond to major ideas and themes addressed in the book before and after reading. A great way to introduce South Africa
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5th - 9th
Also included in: It's Trevor Noah and Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Young Adult Book BUNDLE
Ghana, Mali & Songhai Project - Create a Newspaper
This project gives students the opportunity to delve deep into many aspects of a chosen medieval African empire - Ghana, Mali or Songhai. Students will pretend to be journalists who live in medieval West Africa. Their task is to capture the major events and issues of the time. There are six sections of the newspaper that students can complete, including news stories, interviews and advertisements.The product comes with a detailed explanation of each component required in the newspaper and a d
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
Egyptian Goddesses | Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Introducing an exciting new reading comprehension and writing activity bundle on Egyptian Goddesses! This engaging resource is perfect for 4th - 6th-grade students who are learning about ancient Egypt and its fascinating culture.The bundle includes a⭐️Engaging reading comprehension passage that explores the most popular Egyptian goddesses and their unique abilities and characteristics. ⭐️Thought-provoking comprehension questions that encourage students to delve deeper into the material and devel
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4th - 6th
African Civilizations Activity - Instagram (Editable Insta-game)
This engaging, interactive, Instagram activity is based on Early African Civilizations. Students view clever Instagram hashtags that give clues to people, places and things related to Africa. They make inferences in order to determine what the post is about. Next, they find evidence in their books, notes, device, etc. to justify their answer. This is great for pairs, small groups, or individuals. It can utilize the entire room, allowing students to move around a lot, or, it can be seat work.
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6th - 9th
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Social Studies Bulletin Board- Ethnic Studies Term Posters: Racism, Prejudice
Social Studies and Ethnic Studies Word Wall Terms Posters: Grades 7-12This classroom decor poster set contains the essential terms for your Ethnic Studies and Social Studies classroom. This set defines racism, discrimination, hegemony, diaspora along with many other terms, then the set offers reflection, share and relate cards to offer a multifaceted lesson on ethnic studies topics. See the preview with all the details! The definitions are simple enough for students to understand, yet rigorous e
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7th - 12th
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Ghana, Mali & Songhai Project Create a Board Game
Students will create a board game to demonstrate their learning about Ghana, Mali, and Songhai in a fun and creative way. This Board Game resource includes detailed, step-by-step directions and requirements for students, including required content topics. An extensive range of templates are also provided including board game templates, game card templates, spinner templates, game piece templates, a dice template and a money template.This "Create a Board Game" Project Includes:Student directions,
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
World History Age of Exploration Activities, Quick Write, Guided Notes, Maps
This huge activity PDF includes 17 pages!beautiful & organized guided notesquick write2 primary sources + critical thinking questions3 mapsThese activities & assignments are perfect for curious world history students who want to learn more about the world than just Europe.
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8th - 10th
Ghana, Mali or Songhai Project - Create Currency
Your students live in medieval West Africa in the empire of Ghana, Mali or Songhai. The king has just hired your students as artisans to create currency that reflects the chosen empire. Included in the Product• Direction sheet with seven requirements & suggested topics• Rubric• Two-page chart about the phrases and images of the American dollar bill• Answer key• Four currency templates (half and full page options)Related Choice Board:Ghana, Mali, & Songhai Choice BoardRelated Resources:
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
Geography of Africa Activity and Writing Project
After examining a physical map of Africa and various special-purpose maps in a classroom atlas, students will interpret their findings to answer a series of questions. They will be completing case studies on the population density of two very different locations in Africa - the densely populated city of Lagos and the sparsely populated region of northern Chad. This is truly a great opportunity for students to examine and analyze maps in order to understand and write about population density in
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6th - 8th
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South Africa Activities Bundle: Geography, History, Apartheid & Nelson Mandela
All resources in the bundle include introductions, detailed and specific requirements and rubrics. Students will have the opportunity to work individually, with partners and in a group to create or complete the following activities and projects:✓Apartheid Laws: Task Cards and Writing Activities✓Travel Brochure of South Africa✓Real Estate Advertisement or Commercial✓Create Currency to Represent Ethnic Groups✓Timeline of South Africa✓Pep Talk: The Battle of Blood River✓Newspaper Project: Aparthei
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6th - 8th
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Colonial Slave Trade - Constructed Response Question (CRQ)/(DBQ) Set
This editable Constructed Response Question (CRQ) Set offers an overview of the period of early European colonization of the New World, focusing on the development of the slave trade in the American Colonies.The historical literacy skill of identifying and explaining Geographic Context and audience is the focus of this CRQ set with the content.In addition, students will be asked to develop their skills in describing Turning Point with a Primary Source (Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of t
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Early American History Constructed Response Question (CRQ) Bundle
Atlantic Slave Trade introduction - PDF Video guide & answer Key
PLEASE NOTE:This original product is in PDF format, and therefore cannot be edited - thus the price difference of the UPDATED VERSION.The updated version, ⭐️ linked below, is Google Slides compatible, and therefore completely editable as well as downloadable in PDF format! This video guide activity was designed to introduce your unit on the Atlantic Slave trade. It gives basic statistics, facts, and background information in a format appropriate for all grades 6-12. This video connects The Atlan
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6th - 12th
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Ghana, Mali & Songhai Group Activity - Student Talk Show
Your students will work in groups of four to plan and present a talk show about life in the medieval empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai. The talk show that your students will create will include the host who will ask the deep and engaging questions and three guests who will answer in an interesting and detailed way. One student will represent the host and the three remaining students should each choose to represent a king from the empires. Your students will improve upon skills such as public sp
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ghana, Mali & Songhai Projects
Code of Hammurabi Informational Writing Unit | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
An informational writing unit about the code of Hammurabi, which was created in Ancient Babylon, in the region of Ancient Mesopotamia. The unit focuses on key facts about the ancient king and his famous code of laws. The unit has been split into three separate lessons and is perfect for students in fifth grade and sixth grade. A crossword puzzle also comes with the resource to consolidate learning.Included in this PDF printable resource:Four fact sheets which students need to cut out and sort in
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5th - 6th
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No Prep Webquest and Tasks - Origins and Rationale - Black History Month
With this Webquest and Writing Tasks students will learn about the origins of Black History Month and the Rationale for such a month. They are also made aware of the criticisms against the month and then counter-critcism aswell. Task One - Vocabulary. Before students watch the video, there are a number of vocabulary items they first have to look up / define. Task Two - Video. Students watch a short video on the history presented by a professor at the University of Stanford, and are allowed to ma
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7th - 10th
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