Annotated Resource List

Kelsey Jurewicz
Unit Focus: Nigeria (Grade 3)
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The Philadelphia Museum of

Art

Museum

The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers

exhibitions, events, and activities, as well as an
expansive collection of art from around the
world. Many programs exist for K-12 students,
including both physical and virtual field trips.
Through a partnership with the SDP, the museum
offers virtual tours free of cost to Philadelphia
public schools (and assured me that each school
has a protocol in place to assist with the
technological requirements for a virtual trip) and,
on a first-come first-serve basis, free admission to
a limited number of Philadelphia public school
classes for physical trips to the museum.
Furthermore, almost half of the museum's
collection of art is searchable and viewable
through an online database, providing another
avenue to bring art into your classroom. There are
also a number of resources available for online
use in the "Teacher Resources" section of the
website, including lesson plans, themed
resources, and exhibition materials.

Free admission for both physical and

virtual field trips is only offered to
Philadelphia public schools. For other
schools, the museum requires a $5-7
admission fee per student for museum
visits and $120 total for a 40-60
minute virtual tour.

University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology

Museum

The Penn Museum has an extensive African

section, featuring over 20,000 objects, one of the
largest collections in the country. Included in the
collection is a wide range of objects from the 17th
to 20th century, including masks, statues,
architectural pieces, clothing, musical
instruments, and household implements. A small
selection of these objects can be viewed on the
museums website.

Cost of admission is $7 per student.

Additionally, the museum is a far
walk, so it would likely be necessary
to arrange for transportation.

Africa is Not a Country by

Margy Burns Knight and Mark
Melnicove

Book

The Girl Who Married a Ghost

(and other tales from Nigeria)
by Ifeoma Onyefulu

Book

It Takes a Village by Jane

Cowen-Fletcher

Book

A wonderful book that addresses the common

misconception that Africa is a monolithic country
rather than a vast continent made up of 53
nations. The book gives great insights into
Africas many cultures, with a balance of the
contemporary and traditional. Told through the
daily lives of children in the many countries of
modern Africa, this text is relatable to children.
Compilation of fables told to Ifeoma Onyefulu
when she was growing up in a village in Eastern
Nigeria. The tales contain important messages
that are very telling of traditional Nigerian values.

A heartwarming picture book based on the

African proverb, It takes a village to raise a
child. This would fit in very well with our study
of Nigerian proverbs and fables. Could be a good
example for the writing assignment students will
be doingwriting a fable that uses a Nigerian
proverb as the moral.

Fairly long and dense with content, it

may not be feasible to complete this
read aloud during one session.

Recommended for grades 3-6, this

book would be accessible to the
highest readers in the class, but the
tales would need to be
modified/adapted for other students if
I wanted to use them for independent
activities.
I only have access to one copy of this
book.
Recommended for grades K-2, with a
guided reading level L, this book will
be accessible independently to almost
all students in the class.

Five Themes of Geography

video on Flocabulary

Video

Short video that describes the five elements of

geographylocation, place, human environment
interaction, movement, and region.
Great introduction to many of the elements of
Nigeria we will be considering during the first
week of the unit and hits on some of the enduring
understandings and unit-long understandings.

Potential limitationthe video briefly

mentions some topics we will not be
covering (due to time limitations)
during our study of Nigeria.

Map Skills video on

Flocabulary

Video

Short video that provides an excellent overview

of different types of maps. Perfect introduction to
our focus on Nigerian maps.

Map terminology and skills are taught

primarily using a map of the U.S. as
an example. Limitationdoes not
show a resource/product map, which
is one of the focuses during our study
of various Nigerian maps.

Landforms and Bodies of

Water video on Flocabulary

Video

Great introduction for our focus on topographic

maps of Nigeria. Overviews landform
terminologyhill, mountain, peak, range,
plateau, valley, lowland, canyon, erosion, ocean,
river, glacier, lake, island, plain, prairie, bay,
peninsula, straight, coast, and volcano.
Short video that introduces the concept of natural
resources and provides examples.

Natural Resources video on

Flocabulary

Video

African Proverbs video on

Flocabulary

Video

Nigerian Topography
https://commons.wiki
media.org/wiki/File:
Nigeria_Topography.png
Kid World Citizen
http://kidworldcitizen.
org/2014/09/05/learn
-nigeria-childrens-books/

Map

Website / blog

Suggestions for childrens books to use for

learning about Nigeria.

Owl & Mouse

http://www.yourchild
learns.com/megamaps
/print-africa-maps.html
Kid World Citizen
http://kidworldcitizen
.org/2012/01/29/3d-salt
-dough-maps/

Website

Free, printable maps of Africa and Nigeria

Only possible to print blank, black and

white political maps

Website / blog

Instructions for creating 3D (topographic) salt

dough maps.

Presented as an activity students do

individually. It would not be feasible
in my classroom to create 25 salt
dough maps. If I were to use this, we
would need to divide the
responsibilities to make one map as a
class.

Infoplease
http://www.infoplease.
com/country/nigeria.html

Website

Resource for student research.

Availability of laptops for students to

be conducting internet research.

This video briefly overviews the role of oral

traditions in African culture and provides
examples of six African proverbs.
Topographic map of Nigeria

Not all of the landforms mentioned

will be applicable to our study of
Nigerias topography, but this is
certainly a beneficial overview of
some of the vocabulary we will
encounter.
The focus/emphasis of this video is
the exhaustibility of natural resources.
Could potentially detract from the
point of the lessonwhat are the
resources available in Nigeria?
None of the proverbs are specifically
Nigerian proverbs.
Useful for when students will create
their own topographic maps of
Nigeria, as well as our construction of
a whole-class 3D topographic map.
Many of the books are not easily
accessible (i.e. not available at a
library, so theyd have to be purchased
online).

CIA World Fact Book

https://www.cia.gov/library
/publications/resources/theworld-factbook/geos/ni.html
National Geographic Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.
com/explore/countries/Nigeria
/#nigeria-festival.jpg

Website /
publication

Time for Kids

http://www.timeforkids.
com/destination/nigeria

Article on
website

Kid-friendly article about Nigeria, featuring

important facts about the country.

Google Earth

Web application

Virtual globe, map and geographical information

program that allows users to go anywhere in the
world to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D
buildings

Google Maps

Map website

Interactive map that allows you to travel the

world. Provides a traditional map view, an
Earth view, street view, and pictures.

Article on
website

Extensive information about Nigeriamaps,

geography, people and society, government,
economy, energy, communication, transportation,
military and security, transactional issues.
Kid-friendly article about Nigeria, featuring fast
facts, the Nigerian flag, maps, nature, geography,
people and culture, government and economy,
and history.

The content is very dense. If I wanted

to use this as a resource for my
students, it would need to be
modified/adapted.
This would be an excellent resource
for students to use for independent
research. Potential limitationgaining
access to enough laptops for all
students to be able to use internet
resources.
This would be an excellent resource
for students to use for independent
research. Potential limitationgaining
access to enough laptops for all
students to be able to use internet
resources.
Program needs to be downloaded to
computer desktop.

Potential alternative to using Google

Earth for virtual field trip.