ING’S COLLEGE LESSON PLAN

Form 1 & 2 Belizean Studies

Week 7:October 10th – 13th, 2017
Shakira Castellanos
CONTEXT/PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Students have researched the tools that were used by the early Africans for survival.

TOPIC OBJECTIVES KEY CONCEPTS LEARNING/TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Through class
Topic: discussion, students It is important for the students to understand that the people in the LESSON 1
will be able to: past left writings, monuments, and illustrations based on their life
African Empires and achievements.  Students will brainstorm for a definition of
1. Justify the
empire.
factors that For very long we have been plagued with the western
contributed to perspective and most of the students have an idea of Africa as
the  Teacher will provide class with an explanation
being a place where development was null.
development of of the role of an emperor.
Subtopics: the Ancient The idea in many minds is that the people of Africa were simply
African a source of slaves however, we must understand the major  Students will view a powerpoint presentation
West African Empires. on the location of West Africa. The PPT will
empires that grew and developed in Africa. Good examples of the
Kingdom/Empire
level of development in Africa are the West African empires highlight its environmental and climatic
2. Explain the features.
location of
West Africa and
its
environmental LESSON 2
and climatic
features  Students will watch videos based on West
African Empires.
3. Explain the
social life in  At the end of the video, students will write a
Africa before brief summary of what the videos were about.
the great
empires.
 Students will be divided in groups of three and
will be given a subtopic to research about West
4. Define empire
and explain the
Africa.
role of an
emperor  Students will make presentations the following
session.
 LESSON 3

Presentation Day

Self Evaluation:

STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT REFERENCES ATTITUDE

Assignment:
1. Summary  African and Maya history E-reader. (Musa and Tzib) - Students will appreciate
2. presentation Belize New Vision: Iyo, Tzalam, Cal, Humphreys history as it tells us
where we come from
 The real eve: Film
and who we are.
 http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.lp_humanevo