Category: Africa

• Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship

  

  Besides learning a TON from fellow educators at the NCSS 2019 conference in Austin, Texas, I was also lucky enough to be able to give a presentation on Friday afternoon. The link below will direct you to a Google Drive folder with the lessons I presented in “Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship.” A couple…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  November 23, 2019

  5th grade, activities, Africa, ancient greece, civics, conference, election, lesson, lesson plan, lgbtq, NCSS, slavery

• African & American Folktales

  

  World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break.  Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales.  I…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  March 21, 2019

  5th grade, Africa, black history month, reading, reading strategies, slavery, social studies, venn diagrams

  africa, blackhistorymonth, folktales, slavery