SOCIAL SCIENCE

6th Grade Interdisciplinary African and African American Studies Scope

2013-2014

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THEME: Culture, Dignity and Identity CONCEPT: Everything Out of Africa The impact and legacies of early African peoples, cultures and kingdoms CONTENT TOPIC: Investigating and researching the ancient kingdoms of Africa, their intellectual influences and relationships to the development of a global culture through fiction and nonfiction texts
Guiding Essential Questions: I) How do culture and identity influence who we are? II) How do time, culture and history influence works of art and/or the advancement of science and technology? III) What can I do to positively impact my community? African Influence on the Unit Title The African Spread of Ideas Development of African Geography Everything Out of Africa Across North Africa and Mediterranean Art and Europe Culture Quarter 1Unit 1 Quarter 1Unit 2 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 African and World History Makeover: Kingdoms Africa in a global world The study of the intellectual African Teaching about Africa thought of the Muslims and African empires The Black Athena American throughout the year their effect on Christianity, Significant People Studies Africa, and subsequently Topography o Ibn Battuta (see Connections Africa and Islam on Europe o Oceans and Morocco) waters Trade and the spread of o Mansa Musa (See Islam in Africa Climate Mali) o Resources (natural o Leo Africanus Development of and intellectual) formalized education out of Africa (universities and libraries) o Timbuktu

African Global Interactions with Asia Quarter 4 Zheng He and his voyages to Africa Modern archeology and genetic studies show the connection of Africa to Asia Africans in China, Asia and the Pacific

SOCIAL SCIENCE

6th Grade Interdisciplinary African and African American Studies Scope

2013-2014

- Board of Education of the City of Chicago, all rights reserved.

Resources

Videos National Geographic video http://www.natgeoeducati onvideo.com/film/1078/afr ica Online Resources http://worldhistoryconnect ed.press.illinois.edu/2.1/jo hnston.html

Online Resources Information on African empires http://web.cocc.edu/cagat ucci/classes/hum211/timeli nes/htimeline2.htm Website with most information about the kingdoms designed to help end stereotypes of Africa http://endingstereotypes.o rg/kongo.html African kingdoms and empires, 500-1600 http://www.docstoc.com/d ocs/120850759/AfricanKingdoms-and-Empires500---1600 Describes the important political and economic aspect of the African empires https://resourcesforhistory teachers.wikispaces.com/ WHI.19 Teacher website with resources http://www.mitchellteache rs.org/WorldHistory/Empir

Videos The Black Athena (Part1) http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=o4maNtzhL9Q Black Athena: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece documentary http://topdocumentaryfilms.c om/black-athena-thefabrication-of-ancient-greece/

Online Resources Trade and the spread of Islam http://www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/tsis/hd_tsis.htm Timbuktucity of legends http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/a frica/1911321.stm Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu from, The Description of Africa (1526) http://www.fordham.edu/ha lsall/med/leo_afri.asp The University of Timbuktu http://insideislam.wisc.edu/ 2012/03/important-sitesthe-university-of-timbuktu/

Videos The Black Chinese: DNA test.--case Closed (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=L3IzMvBeOLk

Online Resources Africa and the world http://exploringafrica.matrix. msu.edu/teachers/curriculum /m15/activity7.php The pre-Greek roots of Western culture http://www.physics.wustl.edu /~alford/athena.html The "Black Athena" debate http://www.theafrican.com/ Magazine/Athena/intro.htm

Online Resources Africans in Ancient China and vice versa, Part 1: Chinese explorations http://beyondvictoriana.com/201 1/01/07/africans-in-ancient-chinavice-versa-part-1-chineseexplorations-by-eccentric-yoruba/ Africans in Ancient China and vice versa, Part 2: The Kunlun servants and African merchantsguest blog, by Eccentric Yoruba http://beyondvictoriana.com/201 1/01/14/africans-in-ancient-chinavice-versa-part-2-the-kunlunservants-african-merchants-guestblog-by-eccentric-yoruba/ Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl d-ica-11531398

SOCIAL SCIENCE

6th Grade Interdisciplinary African and African American Studies Scope

2013-2014

- Board of Education of the City of Chicago, all rights reserved.

esSubSaharanAfrica/Empir esofWestAfrica.html Describes Timbuktu http://www.learnnc.org/lp /editions/nchistcolonial/1982 Leo Africanus http://academickids.com/e ncyclopedia/index.php/Leo _Africanus