* Africa Unit (ALL 4 PARTS) Highly engaging, visual, interactive 72-slide PPT
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- This epic Africa bundle includes all of the following resources...20 PPT slideshows, lessons and activities...4 Africa Unit PPTs (culture, geography, empires, slave trade)4 Mapping activities (Africa, MENA, and two Google Earth assignments)6 review games (SWAT, jeopardy, color-cards, geography Qs, aPrice $55.77Original Price $99.88Save $44.11
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THIS RESOURCE IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ANY MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER TAKING THEIR STUDENTS THROUGH A UNIT ON AFRICAN EMPIRES. STUDENTS WILL MASTER GEOGRAPHY, BE EXPOSED TO CULTURE, STUDY HISTORY, PLAY REVIEW GAMES, AND MORE.
***Updated to include 4 more resources (8 total), including an Africa Jeopardy Game, SWAT game, color-card assessment, and guided notes for each PowerPoint.
This EPIC Africa unit is can be downloaded as a complete unit, or as individual lessons. There are all sorts of games, activities and graphic organizers to use with students. See details below:
Part 1 (17 slides) - African Geography, including: light pollution map, geographic features map, Niger river trade info, list of items traded on the Niger, directions to label all countries of Africa, info on climate zones of Africa (desert, Savanna, Rainforest), sub-Saharan Africa, and the Suez Canal
Part 2 - (17 slides) African Culture, including: McDonald's calories activity (comparing daily calorie intake to African countries), literacy rates, life expectancy rates in certain African countries, Religious distribution map, Salt trade across the Sahara Desert, Oral Tradition, Griots, Kindships, Animism, African proverbs to be discussed, explained or translated
Part 3 - (17 slides) African Empires, including: Background on Sundiata (the Lion King of Mali), comparisons of the Sundiata storyline with Disney's Lion King storyline, Sundiata vs. Lion King Worksheet embedded into PPT, Sundiata mini-biography stick figure assignment embedded into PPT, facts and maps of Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Map activity, Mini-Quiz, SWAT review game
Part 4 - (17 slides) African Slave Trade, including: Intro with European Imperialism, Transatlantic slave trade, map for students to complete as they follow along with Triangular Slave trade, info and facts about the 'middle passage', 'Who is African?', Intro to Ebonics, Breakdown of Ebonics roots (Niger-Congo Language structures; e.g. Swahili), writing prompt regarding Ebonics pros n cons