Storyboard & Worksheet

7th Grade African Empires & Kingdoms A Safari to an African Kingdom An Internet Social Studies WebQuest and Slideshow

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Prepared for 7th Grade Mr. Rudman’s Class

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November 2005

Please use this Storyboard & Worksheet to take notes to help you collect and organize the research process. Project Instructions

You and a team of explorers have the opportunity to explore one of the following African kingdoms - Axum, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Zimbabwe, or Benin. Your group will investigate the kingdom using the Internet resources. From your research, you will write information and find appropriate images to create a PowerPoint Slideshow presentation. In this WebQuest, you will use the power of teamwork and the abundant resources on the Internet to learn all about one of these African Kingdoms. Each explorer on your team will be responsible for examining one aspect of the kingdom. Then you will come together to present your findings to the class in your PowerPoint Slideshow.

The Quest

How have the geographic, historic, economic, and cultural characteristics of your African Kingdom influenced Africa and the world? Process and Resources

In this WebQuest, you will be working together with a group of students in class. Each group will represent a group of explorers sent to Africa to study the kingdom.

Phase 1 - Background: Something for Everyone

Use the Internet information to find information on the geography, history, economy, and religion, art and architecture of your kingdom. The specific roles and sections of your PowerPoint Slideshow include:

Section Team Member 1. Geographer: 1. Historian: 1. Economist: 1. Anthropologist: 1. Project Manager

6. Bibliography:

Phase 2 - Looking Deeper from Different Perspectives

Instructions: 1. Individuals or from your WebQuest team will explore one of the roles below.  Geographer  Historian  Economist  Anthropologist  Project Manager  Bibliography

1. Remember to write down or copy/paste the URL of the file you take the passage from so you can quickly go to Citation Maker and create your Bibliography and go back to it if you need to prove your point.

2. Be prepared to focus what you've learned into one main opinion that answers the Big Quest(ion) (How have the geographic, historic, economic, and cultural characteristics of your African kingdom influenced Africa and the world?) based on what you have learned from the links for your role.

Geographer--You will study the surroundings of your kingdom. Use the Internet information linked above to answer these questions specifically related to geography: 1. Where was your kingdom located? 2. What were its natural surroundings? 3. How did geography affect your kingdom? 4. How did your kingdom change its environment?

Historian--You will research the history of your kingdom. Use the Internet information linked above to answer these questions specifically related to history: 1. How did your kingdom begin? 2. What factors led to the growth of your kingdom? 3. Who were the important people? 4. What caused the decline of your kingdom?

Economist--You will investigate the economy of the kingdom. Use the Internet information linked above to answer these questions specifically related to the daily life of the people in your kingdom: 1. What were the roles/jobs of women and how were they treated? 2. What were the roles/jobs of men? 3. How important was farming to the economy? 4. How important was trade, what items were traded, and with whom did they trade?

Anthropologist--You will examine religion and art. Use the Internet information linked above to answer these questions specifically related to religion, and art: 1. What were some of their important religious beliefs? 2. What types of art were created? 3. What were some examples of the architecture of the kingdom? 4. How was art and architecture related to religion?

Phase 3 - Debating, Discussing, and Reaching Consensus

You have all learned about a different part of the African Kingdom. You must all now answer the Quest(ion) as a group. Use information, pictures, movies, facts, opinions, etc. from the Web pages you explored as part of your PowerPoint Slideshow presentation.

Phase 4 - Real World Feedback

You and your teammates have learned a lot by dividing up into different roles. Now's the time to put your learning into a PowerPoint Slideshow presentation you'll show to the rest of the class for real world feedback. Together you will create a slide show that contains the information and perspectives that you've gained. Here's the process: 1. You should begin your presentation with a title page. 2. Your second slide should continue with an introduction. 3. Your next slides should present information and graphics from each group member.  Geography  History  Economy  Religion and Art 1. Your last slide should contain your conclusions rewording the task and you group's answer to your Quest: How have the geographic, historic, economic, and cultural characteristics of your African kingdom influenced Africa and the world? 1. Each member of the group is responsible for creating a minimum of 2 slides based on information he or she has gathered. Conclusion

So you and your team of explorers have completed the safari through an African Kingdom. You have learned about the geography, history, economy, religion and art and architecture of the kingdom. Now you should be ready to share your slide show with the class. Bibliography

List all Web sites used

 Use Citation Maker

Example Credit Line: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's 'The North American Indian': the Photographic Images, 2001. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html Project Tools & Resources

 From Africa WebPage click on the African Empire & Kingdoms Project Links and Resources webpage. Take some time to go through the links, as they have been created to help you easily find the information you need to create your PowerPoint Slideshow.

 You will need to download appropriate images to your group folder. This includes images from the links and websites which are “public domain” or “legal” and available for us to use for school projects.

 You will use PowerPoint to resize the images so they are resized as necessary as a.jpg.

 You will create a bibliography using Citation Maker to cite the websites you used Citation Maker will help you present them in the correct format.

Project Resources http://missmax.com/africa\1_african_project_04.html All of your links and resources for this project SlideShow StoryBoard Slide #1 Slide #2

Title Slide Introduction Slide

African Kingdom Name Team Members Names

Graphic(s) Graphic(s)

Notes Notes

Project Manager is responsible for gaining group consensus for creating these two slides

Geographer

Slide #3 Slide #4

Geography 1 Geography 2

Notes Notes

1. Where was your kingdom located? 2. What were its natural surroundings? 3. How did geography affect your kingdom? 4. How did your kingdom change its environment?

Historian

Slide #5 Slide #6

History 1 History 2

Notes Notes

1. How did your kingdom begin? 2. What factors led to the growth of your kingdom? 3. Who were the important people? 4. What caused the decline of your kingdom?

Economist

Slide #7 Slide #8

Economy 1 Economy 2

Notes Notes

1. What were the roles/jobs of women and how were they treated? 2. What were the roles/jobs of men? 3. How important was farming to the economy? 4. How important was trade, what items were traded, and with whom did they trade?

Anthropologist

Slide #9 Slide #10

Religion & Art 1 Religion & Art 2

Notes Notes

1. What were some of their important religious beliefs? 2. What types of art were created? 3. What were some examples of the architecture of the kingdom? 4. How was art and architecture related to religion?

Conclusion & Bibliography

Slide #11 Slide #12

Conclusion Bibliography

Notes Notes

Conclusion: From your research, state: How have the geographic, historic, economic, and cultural characteristics of your African Kingdom influenced Africa and the world?

African Empire & Kingdoms Timeline

3200 BC-30 BC Ancient Egypt 2000 BC-300 AD Kush (Sudan) ruled Egypt from 700 - 500 BC 200 BC-700 AD The Kingdom of Axum (Ethiopia) 500 BC-200 AD Nok (Nigeria) 500-700 AD Nubia (Sudan) BC-700-1000 AD Early Ghana

WEST “Sudanic” Empires 700-1000AD The Kingdom of Ghana 1200-1400 AD The Kingdom of Mali 1450 AD Oyo Empire is founded. 1400-1600 AD Songhai Empire

EAST (Islamic States) 1000-1800 AD Karanga (>>Zimbabwe) 700-1800s AD East Africa Swahili States

7th Grade African Empire & Kingdoms Project

PowerPoint Slideshow Rubric

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10 points 5 points 1 points

Uses at least 4 sources for Uses less than 3 sources for Uses at least 3 sources for Sources and information and all are information but did not information formatted using Bibliography formatted using Citation formatted using Citation Citation Maker Maker Maker

Accuracy of All facts are clear and Some facts are not easily Facts are inaccurate or Facts accurate understood confusing

Three sections do not Each section contained 3-5 Did not use 3-5 sentences contained 3-5 complete Organization complete sentences with with supporting details in sentences with supporting supporting details, sections. details,

Grammar and Grammar and spelling are Very few errors in grammar Frequent grammar and Spelling correct and spelling spelling errors

All Photographs and images At least 3 Photographs and Photographs and images do represent the appropriate images represent the Photographs not represent the appropriate section and were resized appropriate section and were & Images section and are not resized correctly in Photoshop to be resized correctly in correctly 250 pixels wide, and a .jpg Photoshop.

Your background and font Your background and font Your background and font colors are pleasant to look at Color Scheme colors clash a little or are colors clash and it is difficult and easy to read-it does not somewhat difficult to read to read hurt your eyes

Willing to do their part Working as Needed help working in the without arguments. Able to part of a group. Unable to make Could not compromise. make compromises and to cooperative choices without adult Wanted their own way. help others accomplish their group guidance. tasks

I would give different grades I don’t think we did the best Grade All Members deserve an A to different group members. we could.