Thursday, February 1, 2018

Booklists for World Geography: Africa

I stayed up late last night working on my upcoming main lesson block, which is World Geography: Africa.

Africa is the traditional subject for the 7th grade World Geography block in the Waldorf curriculum. I haven't taught this particular block before, so I was spending my hours busy gathering notes about resources.

I can also use some of my notes from the Grade 3 Housebuilding block to help me choose resources for the younger group:

Housebuilding notes - Africa:

    Traditional Houses from Around the World by A.G. Smith is good background information for the teacher. It is a Dover coloring book but you can use the illustrations and background information to help you plan. Somba clay houses in Benin, Masai houses in Kenya, Dogon cliff dwellings in Mali, Moroccan brick houses in North Africa, painted mud houses in Nigeria, and a Baobab tree house in Sudan are all included.

    How Do People Live? by Philip Steele (based on the Hungarian original by Lajos Boglar) is also a nice resource, which includes Tuareg animal skin tents, mud houses in Nigeria and Mali, wood and mud buildings around Lake Chad in West Africa, branch and cowhide huts on the Africans plains, mud brick houses in the Nubian desert, and the thatched huts of the Dogon people. The illustrations are really lovely. They would be great for a chalkboard.

    Wonderful Houses Around the World by Yoshio Komatsu includes Togo and Senegal. Photographs of the exterior and drawn diagrams of the interior are featured.

    I also really love A Ride on Mother's Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World by Emery & Durga Bernhard. It includes the Mbuti, Tuareg, and Mandingo.

Here are my initial picture book and chapter book lists. If anyone has other suggestions, please share!


Brainstorming Book Lists: Younger


Brainstorming Book Lists: Older


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Eva said...

Thanks for sharing! That looks like lots of work.

February 2, 2018 at 10:07 PM

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