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Activity 3 Resource Pack: Africa’s countries

Exploring Africa: Activity 3. Pupils plan, create and present a PowerPoint to the class on one of Africa’s countries, focusing predominantly on geographical features and information.

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      string(5642) "Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era. Fourteen countries were represented by about 245 men, competing in 43 events. 1900, ParisIt was in the 1900 Olympic Games that women first participated as contestants. At least 1,066 athletes participated, representing 19 countries. 1908, LondonItalian authorities were preparing to hold the games when Mount Vesuvius erupted on April 7, 1906, devastating the city of Naples. Funds were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required. London was selected, and the games were held in White City. Lasting a total of 187 days, or 6 months and 4 days, these games were the longest in modern Olympics history.The games were surrounded by controversy. 1912, StockholmThe 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the ‘Games of the V Olympiad’, was an international, multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden. Twenty eight nations and 2,408 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports. 1916The anticipated 1916 Summer Olympics, which were to be officially known as the ‘Games of the VI Olympiad’, were due to be held in Berlin, Germany. However, due to the outbreak of World War I, the games were cancelled.1920, AntwerpThe Olympic flag is introduced.The aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 greatly affected the Olympic Games – not only due to new states being created, but also by sanctions against the nations that lost the war and were blamed for starting it. 1924, ParisThe 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the ‘Games of the VIII Olympiad’, were celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France. The home city of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern games. 1928, AmsterdamAmsterdam was the host for the ‘Games of the IX Olympiad’. Forty six nations participated and 2,883 athletes took part in 15 sports. 1932, Los AngelesThe ‘Games of the X Olympiad’ was a major worldwide event celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles. 1936, BerlinThese games marked the second and final time that the International Olympic Committee would gather to vote in a city which was bidding to host those Games. 1940 & 1944 No Games due to WW2.Summer 1948, LondonThe Austerity Games were the first Olympic games to be televised to homes. Germany and Japan were not invited but a record of 59 other countries attended. Summer 1952, HelsinkiIt is famous for being the Olympic Games at which the most number of world records were broken, before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Summer 1956, MelbourneThe 1956 Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America. A number of countries boycotted the Olympics.Summer 1960, RomeRome won the right to host the Olympic Games. It was the first time Italy had won the bid since it had been unable to host the 1908 games. Summer 1964, TokyoThe 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports. (South Africa was however, allowed to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, where it made its Paralympics début). Summer 1968, Mexico CityThe 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country (followed by the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain). It is the first Games ever held in Latin America, and it was the second after the 1964 Summer Olympics to be hosted outside of Europe, Australia, or the United States. Summer 1972, Munich‘Games of the XX Olympiad’, was an international multi-sport event, the sporting nature of which was largely overshadowed by a terrorist attack. Summer 1976, MontrealThe ‘Games of the XXI Olympiad’ saw the participation of 92 nations. A number of records were achieved at these Games. Summer 1980, MoscowThis was the first time the games had taken place in a Communist country. There were a number of boycotts. Summer 1984, Los AngelesThe ‘Games of the XXIII Olympiad’ saw retaliatory boycotting. These Games saw the setting of a number of Olympic records. Summer 1988, SeoulThey were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. These were the last Olympic Games for two of the world’s ‘dominating’ sport powers, the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games.Summer 1992, BarcelonaThe 1992 Summer Games were the last to be staged in the same year as the Winter Games. 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Activity 3 Resource Pack: Olympic timeline

30 Jan 2014

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Activity sheet 3b,which provides a map showing the regions of Africa, and Activity sheet 3c,which lists key information such as population, area and capital city for eachcountry in Africa, will both prove useful.Activity sheet 3d has students researching and comparing averagetemperature and rainfall in both their home area and their chosen country.They are then encouraged to create comparative graphs in Microsoft Excel.This can be undertaken as part of students’ research and added to theirPowerPoint presentation.Ask students to think carefully about what information should be included intheir presentation and what should not be included, as the presentation needsto be interesting and engage its audience.Allow pupils time to experiment with effects and adding music or videos intotheir presentations.Upon completion, pupils should present their PowerPoints to others. Peersshould offer ideas as to the quality of the presentation, and any ways in whichthey feel it could be improved.Activity 3: Africa’s countrieshttp://library.teachingtimes.com/articles/africa-project-activity-3Exploring AfricA Cross CurriCulum ProjeCt Plan83Volume5.1nCreativeTeaching&LearningDescription Students create a culturegram (an image bank) about the lives of people inAfrica.They then examine each others’ culturegrams, making observations about lifein Africa from the images their classmates have found and noting questionsthey think of that can be explored further.Curriculum Focus Geography, art, research, thinking skills, citizenshipMaterials Included in this resource pack:Activity sheet 4a – Student introduction A (one country in Africa)Activity sheet 4b – Student introduction B (one aspect of African life)Activity sheet 4c – Example culturegramYou will also need:Coloured post-it notesGroupings PairsActivity 4: Life in Africahttp://library.teachingtimes.com/articles/africa-project-activity-4Exploring AfricA Cross CurriCulum ProjeCt Plan84Volume5.1nCreativeTeaching&LearningProcedure Tell the pupils they are going to be producing a culturegram that reflects lifein Africa. Ensure they know what a culturegram is (an example is included inActivity sheet 4c).Africa is a large and diverse continent, so there are two options here.Option AStudents choose an African country then search the internet for imagesreflecting the lives of people who live there. They should use images thatshow, for example:how people livewhat people wearwhat houses are likewhat jobs people have.Activity sheet 4a provides a student introduction to this option.Option BPairs are assigned one aspect of African life to cover in their culturegram ingeneral terms. Possibilities include:home lifejobstravel and transportclothes and fashiontraditionwealthartgovernment.Activity sheet 4b provides a more comprehensive list. Some topics are morechallenging than others.When the images have been collected and the culturegram produced, they canbe printed to swap and share with other pairs.The pupils try and work out what they can about the lives of the people fromthe illustrations. They use two different coloured post-it notes. On one colour,they write what they know and label the culturegram. 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Project Plan: Exploring Africa

15 Aug 2014

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      string(5681) "had little formal schooling, and was expected to remain at home to look after her invalid mother. However, Mary did have access to her father’s large library of books which she used to educate herself. She did not enjoy the popular novels of the day, preferring science books and those relating explorers’ memoirs.She also loved to hear her father’s recounts of his foreign travels. She willingly agreed to help her father with the proposed book he was writing on the customs and laws of African people, making notes on relevant material from his large collection of books.By 1891, Mrs Kingsley and her two children were living at 7 Mortimer Road, Cambridge. The census records of that year record Charles as a BA Student at Law and Mary as a student of medicine. In the same year, George Kingsley returned home from his journeying with rheumatic fever. Mary had to take over the running of the household. George died in February 1892. Five weeks later, Mary’s mother passed away.As a result, Mary was now free from her responsibilities and with an annual income of £500, was able to travel and visit Africa – the country she had heard so much about. Some say her aim was to collect the material that was needed to finish the book her father had started. She also intended to collect material to write a book of her own. During this visit to the continent, Mary also offered to collect fish specimens for the British Museum.In August 1893, Mary arrived in Sao Paulo de Luanda in Angola. She lived with the locals, learning some of the skills she would need such as fishing with nets made of pineapple fibre. Mary then travelled inland to Nigeria collecting scientific specimens including insects and fresh-water fish while exploring the lower Congo River. Mary returned to England in December 1893.A year later, on 23 December 1894, Mary Kingsley left Liverpool to embark on her second trip to West Africa. She first travelled to the Canary Islands, then Sierra Leone, and later, on to Gabon. Mary Kingsley travelled up the Ogowe River by steam boat and then canoe, collecting specimens of formerly unknown fish.In order to fund this expedition, Mary Kingsley traded British cloth for ivory and rubber.Notable experiences in her expeditions include meeting the Fang tribe, who had a reputation for cannibalism. She also climbed Mount Cameroon, the tallest mountain in West Africa at 4400m, using a route unconquered by any other European.On her return to England in 1895, Mary Kingsley was greeted by journalists eager to interview her about her adventures. Over the next three years, Mary toured the country giving lectures on life in Africa. She also wrote her book ‘Travels In West Africa’, which was published in 1897. It was an immediate bestseller.Both her book and her lectures upset and challenged the views of many living in England. Mary Kingsley criticised the missionaries who went to Africa in an attempt to change the African people – her sympathetic views for the African natives on practices such as polygamy were not popular.Mary Kingsley’s second book ‘West African Studies’ was published in 1899. Here she described the laws and customs of the people of Africa and also gave her opinion on the best way to govern the people.At the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, Mary Kingsley returned to Africa, signing up as a nurse to tend Boer prisoners of war. The editor of the Morning Star asked her to report on the war for his newspaper.Typhoid was rife in the hospital in Simonstown, killing four out of five people. As a nurse, Mary was highly susceptible to catching the disease. In a letter home to a friend in England, Mary described the conditions and also fellow nurses dying of typhoid. In the same letter, she said she thought it was unlikely that she would survive.Her prediction was accurate – Mary Kingsley died of typhoid fever on 3 June 1900. She was buried at sea, as she had requested before she died.Writing an in-role diary entry· Write in first person, using ‘I’ or ‘we’. Remember you are not omniscient – you don’t know what other people are thinking or feeling unless they tell you!· Include a date and location. · Write in chronological order. Start with events that happened early in the day and end with events that took place in the evening. It is reasonable though, if something particularly astounding happened, to lead with that event.· Use an informal tone. A diary is a collection of personal thoughts and accounts, so people don’t tend stick to the formal rules of writing. They might use slang (of the time period) or a more conversational manner.· Use emotive language. 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Activity 3 Resource Pack: Victorian explorers

18 Dec 2014

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        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Creative Teaching & Learning

Activity 6 Resource Pack: Africa's animals

15 Aug 2014