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UKS2 Topic: Benin Block D: Evidence How do we know about Benin? What evidence survives from a thousand years ago to tell us about this civilisation on the west coast of Africa? In this block you will find out about the different types of evidence that survive and how reliable they are. Block D: Evidence Main outcome: History [5 Sessions] Other outcomes: English and D&T

By the end of this block you  Study a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – Benin will have achieved the (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300. following outcomes:  Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources  They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.  Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.  Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.  Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities. Session 1: History and Children will: English  Evaluate the reliability of different types of historical evidence Introduction to sources  Back up their arguments about the reliability of the evidence with informed opinions Work out what different types of  sources exist to help us Take part in class discussions understand the past. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. Session 2: History and Children will: English  Assess the reliability of oral histories Oral history  Act out a story from another culture Re-enact some of the myths of the Edo people about how the kingdoms of Ife and Benin had come into being and discuss how reliable these stories are. Session 3: History and Children will: English  Answer questions about historical sources Written evidence  Assess the reliability of sources  Learn how the earliest written Take part in role-plays evidence about Benin comes from the period when Europeans came. Before that there were no written records, so how useful are they in helping our understanding the earlier period?

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Session 4: History and Children will: English  Understand how archaeology works Archaeology  Assess what the archaeological sites and objects tell us about Benin  Find out what archaeologists have Write effectively for a specific audience and purpose discovered about Benin and how it compares to the oral and written evidence. Is archaeology more or less reliable than other forms of evidence? Session 5 History and D&T Children will: Benin city  Use evidence from sources to make a reconstruction model Make models of the city of Benin,  Generate and develop ideas for a model from discussion based on all the sources they have come across so far.

Resources Session 1 Provided: Information sheets covering: Sources of evidence about Benin; Questions about the evidence & Voting cards. You will need: Access to the internet.

Session 2 Provided: Information sheets covering: Oral histories of Benin & Other evidence related to the stories. You will need: Access to the internet.

Session 3 Provided: Information sheets covering: What Europeans wrote about Benin; Questions about the sources & Quotes from the oral histories to contrast with European quotes. You will need: Access to the internet.

Session 4 Provided: PowerPoint presentation about The Archaeology of Benin. Information sheet with Templates for poster, blog post and letter. You will need: Access to the internet.

Session 5 Provided: Information sheets covering: Sources of Evidence & Modelling Benin City. You will need: Access to the internet; Modelling clay/FiMo™/Modroc™, mosaic tiles, wooden dowels/pencils, masking tape, paper. Video or audio enabled devices.

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