Back to School Africa Project year 5 Geography History Art Fun Activities

Some great planning for a project on Africa.

Best spread over a half term. A little and often

Maybe you could do an assembly?

Fun activities.
Make a mask

Make a dance

Climate and history and social science covered.

Start off with this: So how much do you really know about Africa?

Begin with a quick question and answer session on Africa to ascertain how much the class already
know, for example: Is Africa a continent or a country? Is it an island? Is the equator near Africa?
What animals do they associate with Africa?
Watch the ‘Challenge the Stereotypes’ video after going through the questions

Class Input – Has anyone been to Africa? Using a map of Africa (visualiser, cut out, atlas?) ask children to come and label the places they have been in Africa and say 3 sentences about the area.

Challenge – How many countries can children label on the map in Africa? Show students a map of Africa. Explain how it is one continent that
has 54 countries. Find the UK on the map, discuss the differences in location, size etc. Explain that they are going to be finding out about Africa and looking into its problems and their solutions over
the next half term.

Think/Pair Share: Discuss where in Africa you might go as a tourist and why? Did they know Egypt was part of Africa?

Explain to the chn that Africa is so rich in its culture that the Earth’s oldest known stone tools (2,400,000 BCE) and first known species: homo erectus (1,900,000 BCE) and humans/homo-sapiens (200,000 BCE) inhabited Africa before any other continent! So genetic evidence suggests we all originate from a species in Africa

This lesson should highlight the minimal amount we know about Africa and encourage chn to find out more about the continent, the coutries and the culture over the coming weeks.