African Empires 1500-1900 CE Digital NB - Songhai, Ashanti, Ethiopia, Kongo, Zulu

African Empires 1500 - 1900 Digital (and Print) Notebook - Google Drive - Songhai, Ashanti, Ethiopia, Kongo, Zulu

This notebook activity has a variety of engaging activities for students to learn more about African Empires, focusing on political, economic, and religious systems. Plus, sprinkle in a little art history to make this lesson even more in-depth and fun! This is an excellent addition to your unit on Africa, imperialism, or 1500-1900 Asia. This resource also works great as a backup Sub lesson plan.

This resource comes as a Google Drive resource. When you download this resource, you will see the terms of use and printing notes. On the printing notes page, you will have a link to the Google Drive folder. You will need to make a copy of the materials if you would like to edit them. All of these instructions, including a step-by-step visual guide on how to use this resource, is included in the Terms of Use. If you would like to print the resource material, select the print version of this resource, go to "File," "Download," and "PDF" to save the resource as a PDF and print! A PDF is also provided for your convenience.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS PURCHASE? ⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣

• Geography of Africa 500 BCE - 1500 CE (contextualization)
• Overview and video on the Kingdom of Songhai
• Website search on the Ashanti Empire & art history analysis on the Golden Stool
• Graph, art, and text analysis of Ethiopia
• Overview and primary source image analysis on the Kingdom of the Kongo
• Website search on the Zulu
• Final report - put it all together writing activity (compare and contrast the political, economic, and religious systems in African societies)
• Bonus material: the history of coffee
• Teacher Answer Key (Not included in preview)

There are many ways you can use this resource:

• Use this after a lesson on African Empires to reinforce learning
• Use this resource as your primary lesson on African Empires
• Complete this together as a class (recommended)
• Assign as individual work
• Assign as partner/group work

When I use notebook activities in my class, I like to go through the readings, videos, and activities together as a class. Why?

• ✓ Make sure everyone is staying on track
• ✓ Get the entire class to participate in the lesson
• ✓ Allows students to answer the questions and immediately review them as a class to self-check for progress learning
• ✓ Less grading for me
• I usually give a completion grade for the portion we do together as a class.
• The writing portion at the end I have students complete independently, either at the end of class or as homework. This is the only part I grade, while the rest is a completion grade.

If you want an even more in-depth look at this product, please check out the Preview. I have included pictures of most pages you will get with this purchase.

Happy teaching! :)

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