African Archaeology in Support of School Learning Publications
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Item Une journée sur le Nil : vivre dans une ville en Nubie(2024) Balabuch, AllisonDans cette ressource 1. Étude de cas : Ville de Sai – Introduction 2. Calcul de l'échelle 3. Comparaison des pyramides 4. Dessins à l'échelle 5. Calcul des distances 6. Texte : Une journée à Sai 7. Lecture : tirer des conclusions 8. Écriture : Fiction historiqueItem A day on the Nile: Living in a town in Nubia(2024) Balabuch, AllisonIn this resource: 1. Case Study: Sai City - Introduction 2. Calculating Scale 3. Comparing Pyramids 4. Scale Drawings 5. Calculating Distances 6. Text: A Day In Sai 7. Reading: Drawing Inferences 8. Writing: Historical FictionItem Comment le passé africain peut inspirer des réponses alternatives au changement climatique : une expérience d’écriture créative(2024) Balabuch, AllisonDans cette ressource: 1. Texte : Le futur était maintenant 2. Texte : Le murmure des potsItem How African pasts can inspire alternative responses to climate change: A creative writing experiment(2024) Balabuch, AllisonIn this resource: 1. Text: The Future Was Now 2. Text: The Whisper of PotsItem Learning From Our Past(2023) Balabuch, Allison; Attiogbe, Esther; Stahl, Ann B.; Kwasi, Sampson Attah (trans.)This middle school learning resource focuses on the history of livelihoods and lifeways in the Banda District of Ghana, West Africa. Today a rural district in west central Ghana, Banda has long been a crossroads of trade and a place where people from different backgrounds settled and formed communities. The fascinating history of how Banda area people interacted with neighbouring communities, responded to changing climate, and drew on local knowledge and resources to sustain their families comes from studying archaeology, oral histories and textual sources. Among the topics covered in this open-access resource are trade and the effects of global connections on rural life; the science and innovation behind local industries like potting and metallurgy; the role of weaving as a technology that transformed local materials into valued goods; and the range of ways in which people provided for their families through farming, fishing and hunting. The resource combines background information with suggested hands-on activities that support learning. The resource is available in English and in Nafaanra, which is one of several languages spoken in the Banda District.