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This complete Medieval Times West African Empires or Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Unit (West African Trading Empires, Tran-Saharan Trade) is packed with both digital and print activities. With over 300 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all the West Africa maps, lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, and assessments you need to teach like a superhero!
Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:
1. ⭐UNIT INTRODUCTION SUBFOLDER– These two great introduction lessons include:
2. ⭐GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER– Includes student or teacher-guided click geography activities, games, Google form or print quiz, and answer keys!
3. ⭐VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER– Includes assignment options, review games, and a Google Forms or print quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice!
4. ⭐GUIDED NOTES & READINGS SUBFOLDER – Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content-specific Google form or print quiz.
5. ⭐ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER– Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.
6. ⭐BELLRINGERS: Skill-Based Text Analysis Warm-Ups and Mini-Lessons and Review – Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase, and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.
7. ⭐BIG IDEAS REVIEW SUBFOLDER- Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks! Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence (note that this product has examples some of the assignments listed above, but not all are included in the bundle) Also includes:
8. ⭐UNIT ASSESSMENT CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING (CER) TEST– Each unit comes with an editable assessment that has students support claims with evidence.
Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History and Medieval History lessons, is key-concept based. It focuses on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often called GRAPES.
By studying World History through these key concepts, students discover the crucial attributes that helped ancient and medieval civilizations prosper. They also build a framework that supports future learning and connects recurring ideas across history.
Each unit also comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:
