Lesson Plan Links
Art
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/7mancala.htm
This is an excellent junior high
art exercise (with an elementary adaptation) in
making ise/mancala boards from paper mache. Why not make the animals
even more
Benin
specific?
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/7africa.htm
Another excellent art lesson plan
by Judy Decker, easily adaptable to high
school as well as junior high. Having students use Benin-oriented themes
and
motifs would be a simple shift.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/6africa.htm
Judy Decker does it again!
Paperweaving...try these exercises with
Benin
motifs? Oh, yes!
English
English
and Social Studies
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=473
Junior high and high school. Adapt this lesson, which trains students in
style
analysis and imagination. This plan uses a Peace Corps volunteer's letters
home from Senegal--adapt to the Benin Kingdom experience by using our
website (http://www.iyare.net), or, for
more advanced students, go to primary sources, and ask students to take the
roles of external visitors to Benin over time and flip them to write about
an Edo visitor to their town at various points in time, and what kind of
observations he/she might make.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/culture/goals.html
Secondary School. Ways to incorporate discussions of folklore, everyday
life,
food, art, and religion. Use our website (http://www.iyare.net),
blog (http://iyare-penn.blogspot.com),
and links to customize the lessons to the
Benin
Kingdom
. That way material stays consistent and students have a chance to see the
richness of a single culture, rather than just scratch the continent's
surface. Don't forget the teacher's guide link.
Math
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/pattern.pl/public?pattern_id=494
The challenge of teaching about African fractals through hairstyles or
architecture
Music
http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/v8b.htm
The ukuse is Benin's version of the Yoruba sekere, and is similarly made and played
http://pbskids.org/africa/piano/piano.html
Fun interactive for kids to listen to and record thumb piano music. Benin
musical instruments include the thumb piano, though they are not among the
most popular instruments.
https://www.lessonplanet.com/register/step-1?keywords=drum&media=
lesson&title=Sounds+Like+Science+-+Drums
Scientific basis for sound with a drum as the example. Requires registration
for a free trial.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&rlz=
1I7HPNN&q=african+drum+lesson+plan&start=30&sa=N
Elementary school resource for drumming lesson
http://www.instructables.com/id/Instant-Thumb-Piano%3a-How-to-make-
a-set-screw-lamel/
Secondary school. While not organized as a lesson plan, gives directions on
how to make a thumb piano with variations
Social
Studies
http://www.outreachworld.org/resource.asp?curriculumid=197
Useful size relationships relating to the continent and other parts of the
world
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/world/nigeria_
elections.html
Middle and secondary school. Lesson plan examines "free and fair
elections" by comparing Nigerian and U.S.
contests.
Social
Studies and Geography
http://www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=412
Grades 3-5 finding information on a map, learning about Benin
through its art.
Rich links!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/where/goals.html
High School. African diversity
Science,
Environment
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=1661
Adapt this Peace Corps volunteer lesson plan that deals with water
throughout the African continent, contrasting Benin
with a dryer area.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=111
Elementary; junior high. Water-borne diseases and clean water in
Africa
The image
on this page: Benin artists create many relief doors, particularly for
chiefs, that show scenes of palace life. They appear to be 20th century
innovations. 2002. Detail.
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