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Description |
| Book: Lions at Lunchtime (primary) |
Review vocabulary and facts featured in Mary Pope Osborne's 11th Magic Tree House book (most of this lesson can be used without the book). Also on abcteach.com: crossword, word search, and word scramble. |
| Writing Activity: A Trip to Cameroon (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Cameroon. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Sign: The Continents - Africa |
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| Writing Activity: A Trip to Egypt (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Egypt. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Writing Activity: A Trip to Cote d'Ivoire (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Cote d'Ivoire. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Writing Activity: A Trip to Somalia (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Somalia. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Writing Activity: A Trip to Sudan (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Sudan. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Writing Activity: A Trip to South Africa (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to South Africa. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. One of several in the "A Trip to..." series on our member site. |
| Rebus: African Safari (color) |
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| Rebus: African Safari (b/w) |
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| Writing Activity: A Trip to Kenya (elem/upper elem) |
Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to Kenya. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including holidays, people, and sightseeing, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills. |
| Book: Itching and Twitching : A Nigerian Folktale (upper elem.) |
Enhances vocabulary and comprehension of Pat McKissack's Nigerian folktale. |
| Book: When Africa Was Home (upper elem/middle) |
A mini-unit, featuring comprehension questions and vocabulary builders, designed to enhance Karen Williams' book; perfect for integration into a "What does 'home' mean?" lesson. |
| Border Paper: Africa |
Animal border for students to color. Narrow lines for writing. |
| Border Paper: Africa (2) |
Lined paper with a wildlife scene in the top border. |
| Border Paper: Africa (3) |
Narrow-lined paper with a man and woman in cultural dress in the upper corners. |
| Border Paper: African Animals |
Narrow-lined paper with African animals in the surrounding border. |
| Border Paper: Nelson Mandela |
Narrow-lined paper with Nelson Mandela in the upper-left corner. |
| Chart: Egypt Population |
Use the chart to find the populations of some of Egypt's major cities. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Bastet |
A coloring page of the Egyptian cat goddess Bast or Bastet, for fun or for a report cover. With short explanatory text. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Children |
A coloring page of children playing in ancient Egypt, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Horus |
A dot to dot and a picture to color of the Egyptian sun god, Horus, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - King Tut |
A coloring page of King Tut mask, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Nut |
A dot to dot and a picture to color of the sky goddess, Nut, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Osiris |
A dot to dot and a picture to color of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Ra |
A dot to dot and a picture to color of the Egyptian sun god, Ra, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Urn |
A coloring page of an ancient Egyptian urn, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt - Weaving |
A coloring page of ancient Egyptians weaving, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt- Anubis |
A dot to dot and a picture of the jackal god, Anubis, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt- Game |
A coloring page of two Egyptians playing Senet (like backgammon), for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Egypt- Hieroglyphs |
A coloring page of Egyptian workers painting a fresco, includes hieroglyphs, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Page: Sphinx - Egypt |
A coloring page of the famous and mysterious Sphinx, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Coloring Pages: Egypt - Nile Scene |
A coloring page of the Egyptian Abu Simbel monument along the Nile, for fun or for a report cover. |
| Comprehension: Africa - History, Geography, and Life (upper elementary) |
This unit presents a wealth of information about Africa, divided into regions for easy comprehension. |
| Comprehension: Alexandria (middle school) |
Introduces students to the rich history of Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt. Followed by multiple choice comprehension questions. |
| Comprehension: Cheetah (upper elementary) |
This cat is the fastest animal in the world! Learn more with this two page reading comprehension. |
| Comprehension: Kenya (elementary/upper elementary) |
Reading comprehensions on Kenya's geography, culture, and animals, along with writing exercises. |
| Comprehension: Luxor (middle school) |
An introduction to Luxor, the ancient Egyptian city, filled with temples and sphinxes. A good reading comprehension exercise. |
| Comprehension: Nile Valley (middle school) |
A brief history and geographic explanation of the Nile Valley. A good vocabulary builder and reading comprehension exercise. |
| Comprehension: Pharos (upper elementary/middle) |
The Pharos lighthouse was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Use this reading comprehension to learn more. |
| Comprehension: Pyramids (middle school) |
An introduction to the Egyptian Pyramids for upper level students. |
| Comprehension: Pyramids (upper elementary) |
A great introduction to the history and construction of Egyptian pyramids. |
| Comprehension: Ramadan (upper elementary/ middle) |
This reading comprehension describes the experiences of someone who visited Cairo during Ramadan. |
| Comprehension: Rhinoceros (elem/upper elem) |
A short reading comprehension about this endangered animal. |
| Comprehension: Suez Canal (upper elementary/middle) |
A trip down the Suez Canal, with a bit of history. |
| Comprehension: The Pharaoh's Funeral (upper elem/middle) |
This reading comprehension describes the burial process for a Pharaoh (not for the faint-hearted!) |
| Comprehension: Women in Egypt (upper elementary/middle) |
This reading comprehension presents the position of Egyptian women in past and contemporary society. |
| Fact Card: African Animals 1 |
Facts about African animals with color photographs. |
| Fact Card: African Animals 2 |
Facts about African animals, with color photographs. |
| Fact Card: African Animals 3 |
Facts about African animals, with color photographs. |
| Line Graph: Egypt (elem/upper elem) |
Use a line graph to determine how many people visited the Great Sphinx over a two year period. |
| Map Skills: Continents (easier) |
Use these maps to help students with their geographical knowledge. Includes word wall word strips. |
| Map Skills: Continents and Countries |
Use these detailed maps to help review (or expand) students' geographical knowledge of continents, countries, oceans, and seas, as well as to practice map labeling. |
| Map Skills: Egypt |
Use a map to learn more about Egypt. A good map skills lesson. |
| Map Skills: Label the Continents |
Practice map skills by labeling the continents on this world map. |
| Map: Africa (labeled countries) |
Labeled map of Africa, showing countries. |
| Map: Africa (outline) |
Unlabeled outline map of Africa. |
| Map: Africa (unlabeled countries) |
Unlabeled map of Africa, showing countries. |
| Maps: Continent Geography (outlines) |
Labeled and unlabeled outlines of the continents, for use with the interactive geography bulletin board project. |
| Maze: Mummy |
Find your way through this mummy-shaped maze. |
| Maze: Sphinx |
Sphinx-shaped maze. |
| Report Form: Egypt |
A form for students doing their own research on Egypt. Includes essay questions, and a fact sheet (with answers for teachers). |
| Sign: Grassland Animals |
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| Unit: African Elephant (elementary) |
The African elephant chart-reading and graphing unit includes a reading and comprehension sheet to give students background information about African elephants. The chart reading and graphing tasks are based on real data about African elephants, and thus can be considered real-world problem-solving experiences. |
| Unit: African Elephant (upper elem/intermediate) |
This unit has harder tasks and reading/comp sheet. Chart reading exercises. Math tasks include mean, median, range and mode, and selecting appropriate intervals for graphs. |
| Unit: Lions (elementary/ upper elementary) |
Reading comprehension questions (multiple choice and true/false), math, word fun, and more - all related to the topic of these "great cats"! |
| Word Search: Egypt |
A word search to reinforce vocabulary for other Egypt lessons. |
| Word Wall: African Animals (pictures) |
From "African buffalo" to "zebra". These vocabulary building word strips with pictures are great for word walls, sentence strips, spelling and vocabulary practice. |
| Comprehensions: African Countries (elem/upper elem) |
In this unit, Liz gets postcards from pen pals in ten different African countries. Each postcard contains a few facts about the country. This unit can be used in a variety of fun ways to introduce Africa. Review questions include map labeling, comprehension questions, creative writing, and more. |
| Desk Tag: African Animal - Bongo |
Pattern of this rain forest antelope's skin. |
| Desk Tag: African Animal - Cheetah |
Pattern of this grassland big cat's skin. |
| Desk Tag: African Animal - Giraffe |
Pattern of this grassland animal's skin. |
| Sign: The Continents - Africa Map |
Map of Africa with the countries labeled. |
| Desk Tag: African Animal - Zebra |
Pattern of this grassland equid's skin. |
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