UKS2 Topic: Benin Block E: Everyday Life Create Benin houses and streets; imagine what it was like to live among the Benin people; investigate Benin music and story telling; make a Benin asologun (stringed instrument) and/or egion (musical bow); take part in a recital; explore Benin cast iron objects and their meanings; have a go at casting; learn about the types of food people ate in Benin and try out some traditional recipes.

Block E: The Benin Timeline Main outcome: History [4 Sessions] Other outcomes: Art/Music/D&T

By the end of this block you will  Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, have achieved the following cause, similarity and difference, and significance. outcomes:  Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.  Undertake an in-depth study of a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – (the Benin civilisation).  Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately.  Select from and use a wider range of materials and components.  Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.  Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.  Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts.  Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes.  Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.  Gain an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design. Session 1 History and D&T Children will: Benin houses  Contrast the construction of city and village buildings in Benin Learn how the people of Benin made  Build model houses houses. Make a Benin house out of sticks,  Tell a collaborative story about life in one of these houses clay and leaves. Create a class Benin city by setting out the streets in long straight lines, just like the ancient city of Benin. Imagine what it would be like to live among the Benin people. Session 2 History, D&T and Music Children will: Music and Story  Be able to explain what musical instruments were used in the Benin Investigate the music of the time and kingdom and why understand the importance of music in  Make replica musical instruments that produce a sound the Benin culture. Learn that they did not  Play handmade musical instruments in an improvised recital have a written language and children did not go to school, but instead, in the evening, the people in each village would collect around the village square or family hearth and tell stories. Make a Benin asologun (stringed instrument) and/or egion (musical bow), and take part in a recital.

© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. The links to the websites and the contents of the web pages associated with such links specified on this list (hereafter collectively referred to as the ‘Links’) have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best of Hamilton Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and conditions on the Hamilton Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links, changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to verify any of the Links which you wish you use. Hamilton Trust excludes all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any Links. Session 3 History, D&T and Music Children will: Benin Art  Use their knowledge of Benin artwork to design a replica Understand that one of the most unique  Sketch a design for an artwork things about the Benin civilisation was  Make a model of a Benin artwork their art. Explore their cast bronze objects. Understand that their art had symbolic meanings and were made by skilled craftsmen. Have a go at casting or making a hip mask, bell, or figurine and present them in an assembly. Session 4 History and D&T Children will: Benin food  Learn that people eat what is available in the environment around them Learn about the types of food people ate before globalisation in Benin and try out some traditional  Understand that these recipes are a best guess about the food people ate recipes. Eat! historically in Benin  Follow a recipe and cook a traditional dish from Benin Resources Session 1 Provided: PowerPoint presentations on Benin houses. Information sheet on Making Benin houses. You will need: Access to the internet. Cardboard bases, clay, sticks, leaves (use fallen or fake leaves, or make them from paper). Session 2 Provided: PowerPoint presentation on Musical instruments in Benin; Information sheet on Making replica Benin instruments. You will need: Cardboard boxes, sticks (bendy, e.g. hazel or willow), string, elastic bands. Session 3 Provided: PowerPoint presentation on How Benin bronzes were cast. Information sheet on Modelling or casting replica Benin art. You will need: Clay, clay modelling tools, water, a freezer. Session 4 Provided: PowerPoint presentation with Pictures of traditional food from Benin. Information sheets covering: Traditional Benin recipes & Quiz and discussion questions for feast time. You will need: Kitchen scales, preparation & serving equipment, dried fish, ground crayfish, yams, plantains, ground cassava, salt, pepper, palm oil, spinach, onion.

© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. The links to the websites and the contents of the web pages associated with such links specified on this list (hereafter collectively referred to as the ‘Links’) have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best of Hamilton Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and conditions on the Hamilton Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links, changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to verify any of the Links which you wish you use. Hamilton Trust excludes all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any Links.