Mansa Musa and Medieval Mali

This PowerPoint includes all of the resources to run either a single, or a double lesson on Mansa Musa. It is aimed at Year 7 and provides support for students working between L3 and L6 on the old NC Levels.

Lesson objectives:
L3 - To identify facts about Medieval Mali and Mansa Musa
L4 - To describe Medieval Mali and Mansa Musa
L5 - To make inferences from sources about Medieval Mali and Mansa Musa
L6 - To explain what Medieval Mali and Mansa Musa would seem like to a time traveller, drawing inferences from sources to support their points.

Activities include:
* A task where students work in pairs, one looks at an image and describes it to his/her partner. The partner draws the image.
* Fact generation, teacher models how to get facts from the source, students compete.
* Using written sources to gather information
* Creating a Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval Mali