- Unit 1: The Global Tapestry, 1200 to 1450. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
- Africa - Unit 6 Links: Political/Physical Maps of Africa Profile & Geography of Africa Ancient African Empires Scramble for Africa & Independence Africa - Unit Project Africa Unit Outline.
- Unit Two: Studying Africa Through Social Studies. Module 6: African Geography; Module 7(A): African History until 1500; Module 7(B): African History 1500 to the Present; Module 8: Culture and Society in Africa; Module 9: African Economies; Module 10: African Politics and Government; Unit Three: Studying Africa through the Humanities.
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SCRAMBLE FOR aFRICA rEFLECTION. DBQ Packet for Writing Prompt. A Slave Narrative. SS7H1a Writing Task. SS7H1a-d Readings, Questions, and Station Directions.
The Exploring Africa! curriculum is divided into units, modules, and learning activities. Each unit covers a major topic or theme in the study of Africa, which is then divided into thematic, disciplinary, regional, or country modules. Each module is comprised of learning activities, which are each aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The learning activities in each module vary in length of time needed for completion. Both students and teachers should feel free to navigate through the units, modules, and learning activities autonomously, or communally with a class, study partner, or teacher. Feel free to select one or two learning activities from a module, or complete all of the learning activities in the order in which they are presented.
For students, Exploring Africa!can be a wonderful learning tool, right at your fingertips. You may guide yourself through the informative lessons and interactive learning activities.
For teachers, we offer an Exploring Africa Lesson Plans digital booklet in our store if you want to bring Exploring Africa! into your classroom. The Exploring Africa Lesson Plans digital booklet consists of numerous lesson plans designed around our curriculum, and includes homework sheets, information sheets, and additional helpful text and information to supplement your lesson plans. Each lesson plan is only one way to teach this curriculum, so please feel free to adapt each lesson to your unique classrooms as needed. Once you have purchased the lessons you can access them here: http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/curriculum/lesson-plans-3
Unit One: Why Study Africa
Module One | Exploring the Diversity of Africa |
Module Two | Learning about Africa |
Module Three | Examining Africa’s Diversity |
Module Four | Examining Africa’s Global Connections |
Module Five | Looking Back |
Unit Two: Studying Africa through the Social Studies
Module Six | African Geography |
Module Seven | A. African History until 1500 |
B. African History 1500 to the Present | |
Module Eight | Culture and Society in Africa |
Module Nine | African Economies |
Module Ten | African Politics and Government |
Unit Three: Studying Africa through the Humanities
Module Eleven | African Literatures |
Module Twelve | African Art |
Module Thirteen | African Music |
Module Fourteen | Religion in Africa |
Module Fifteen | Africa and the World |
Unit Four: Regional Perspectives
Module Sixteen | North Africa |
Module Seventeen | West Africa |
Module Eighteen | Central Africa |
Module Nineteen | East Africa |
Module Twenty | Southern Africa |
Unit Five: Country Case Studies
Module Twenty One | Egypt |
Module Twenty Two | Ethiopia |
Module Twenty Three | Senegal |
Module Twenty Four | Ghana |
Module Twenty Five | Nigeria |
Module Twenty Six | Tanzania |
Module Twenty Seven | Congo |
Module Twenty Eight | Kenya |
Module Twenty Nine | South Africa |
Module Thirty | Zimbabwe |
Additional Curriculum
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
Unit 6: Africa Mac's History Timeline
The African Studies Center and MATRIX digital humanities center at Michigan State University have created an online curriculum resource about South Africa with multimedia primary materials, including many interviews and video clips.