Quality resources developed for Home Schooling, International Schools and online education in sub-Saharan Africa, suitable for students planning to write Cambridge International Examinations.
Quality resources developed for Home Schooling, International Schools and online education in sub-Saharan Africa, suitable for students planning to write Cambridge International Examinations.
KS 3 - A unit of work, which can be projected or printed, about the Seven Years / French and Indian War; The War of Independence / Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. Contains information and tasks. Suggested answers are on PowerPoint presentations for follow-up work. Suitable for students who have not studied these topics before. International Curriculum for Africa Year 9. 34 pages plus 3 short Ppt presentations. Final assessment task - students have the option of using iMovie; Notability; Wevideo; Moviemaker; Animaker or Powtoon.
KS 3: Instructions and guidelines for students to carry out a Depth Study on human migration in Africa. PowerPoint presentation which enables teachers to give a brief overview of the suggested topics. Suitable for IB, Cambridge and International Curriculum for Africa Year 8. Possible topics for this task include:
1. Jews to Ethiopia
2. The Bantu migration to (Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, etc.)
3. Migration of the (Nilotes / Cushites) to Kenya
4. The origin and migration of people from Central Sudan to Nigeria.
5. The migration of the San / Nama / Damara / people of Namibia
6. The Great Trek in South Africa
7. The migration of English settlers to the Eastern Cape in the 1820s.
8. Maasai migrations in East Africa
9. Migrations of people into Mali and Songhay
10. The Matabele of Mzilikazi
11. Indians to the colony of Natal
12. Somali migrants to Europe
KS 3 - A simple approach for printing or projection . Contains information, tasks and suggested answers
Introduction
Case Study - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
Problems after decolonisation
Which countries still have colonies?
Make a presentation (iPad, PowerPoint or Scratch)
Results of decolonisation of Africa
KS 3 - 17 page unit suitable for projection or printing; a general overview which introduces the topic, contains a few tasks which reinforce history and study skills; also - a thought provoking task which requires students to investigate their origins as newcomers in either the recent or distant past. Accompanying PowerPoint presentation reinforces important concepts.
Reasons for the Scramble for Africa
The process of partitioning Africa
Responses to colonisation
Results of the Scramble for Africa
International Curriculum for Africa Year / Grade 8 Case Study - Cote d'Ivoire
KS 3 - A Unit of work suitable for students in sub-Saharan Africa, international schools, home schoolers, multi-cultural classrooms.
An overview of the nature of the colonisation of Africa
Patterns of colonial rule in Africa
Case Study – The Portuguese in Africa
Case Study -The British take over the Cape of Good Hope
Case Study - Tanzania
Includes PowerPoint containing suggested answers for all tasks.
International Curriculum for Africa Year 8
KS 3 - A compact unit of work which covers the most important points but is really useful for incorporating the use of sub-headings, key words and summary skills and showing students how to combine them to answer an essay question. Also contains an empathy question based on the predicament of the teenaged Richard II - which students thoroughly enjoy.
Introduction
The Peasants’ Revolt
An empathy question - Richard II
The Agrarian Revolution
An essay
KS2 - 3 Unit of work which covers the basic characteristics of feudal societies; compares European feudalism with similar societies in China and Africa. Contains tasks, with answers and glossaries.
The feudal system
Learning a definition
Did feudalism exist in China before it existed in Europe? Task with questions
England (with video transcript); glossary; source-based questions
France
Africa
Task- comparing feudal societies
Task - True or false?
KS 3 (UK) Gr 8-10 (SA) - A unit of work, suitable for whiteboard or for printing as a worksheet, which uses two films to study the topic. Includes background reading; worksheets; suggested answers (also on PowerPoint). Introduction – using film to study history
How the war began
The Battle of Isandlwana (Zulu Dawn)
The Battle of Rorke's Drift. (Zulu!)
The aftermath of these battles
Discussion – use of propaganda techniques by the British government
KS 3 - A 16 page unit containing information, tasks and suggested answers.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Kilwa
Angola
Mozambique
(International Curriculum for Africa)
KS 3 - Module containing information, tasks and suggested answers
Events in Nguniland prior to the Mfecane
King Shaka Zulu
The Mfecane
Mzilikazi flees to Matabeleland
The Bambatha Rebellion
(International Curriculum for Africa) - a topic found in the syllabus of many African countries
Useful for whiteboard projection and tablet use.
KS 3 - A 34 page unit of work containing information, tasks and suggested answers.
Slavery
Slave life on a plantation
Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope
Consequences of the slave trade
The foundation of Sierra Leone and Liberia
International Curriculum for Africa
KS 3 - A 13 page unit which contains reading material; suggested video clips, tasks, suggested answers based on evolution of man, the Stone Ages, famous individuals in this field.
KS 3 - A 19 page unit which looks at the history and nature of creationist theory; the story of creation from Genesis; Adam and Eve; Use of evidence to prove religious history. Skills-based tasks. Very useful for religious schools- examines the degree to which evolution is accepted by different “Creationist” groups. Has been used in Anglican, Lutheran, Catholic and Chabad schools.
KS 3 - 8 pages of reading material, tasks, suggested answers;
The first explorers
Burton and Speke
The end of the story?
Write a speech
International Curriculum for Africa Year 8
KS 3 - 16 pages of reading and source material; tasks, suggested answers
How missionaries changed Africa
Missionaries in West, Central and southern Africa
Positives, Negatives and Interesting
David Livingstone and the Bombay Africans
The Hermannsburg Missionaries
KS 3 - 13 pages of reading material, source material, Quick Test, Glossary and suggested answers.
The early years at the Cape
The colony grows
Conflict in the Cape
The end of the DEIC at the Cape
International Curriculum for Africa Year 8
KS 3 - Full 49 page module contains reading material, tasks, suggested answers, glossary;
The Portuguese find the sea route to the East
The Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope
Exploring the Nile
Missionaries in Africa
David Livingstone
International Curriculum for Africa Year 8
KS 3 - Full 32 page module contains reading material and tasks based on the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Contains mark schemes, suggested answers and glossary. Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Some inventions
The impact of the Industrial Revolution on Society
The origin of trade union movements
Interpreting charts, tables and graphs
International Curriculum for Africa Year 7
KS 3 Full 33 page module contains information and activities which include thinking questions, True / False, sequencing, sorting. Glossaries and YouTube video suggestions included .
A full unit of work consisting of 5 complete lessons
KS 3 - Full 43 page module which covers what the Renaissance was; scientific discoveries; art and architecture; Leonardo da Vinci; the Reformation. Contains worksheets, multiple choice; source-based questions, glossaries; suggested answers
International Curriculum for Africa Year 7