Summary
In this lesson, students will explore how imperialism affected Africa by analyzing a map, an illustration, and by completing a reading. Students relate the production of rubber to imperialism then summarize how imperialism impacted Africa. This is a multimodality lesson, which means it includes face-to-face, online, and hybrid versions of the lesson. The attachments also include a downloadable Common Cartridge file, which can be imported into a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Canvas or eKadence. The cartridge includes interactive student activities and teacher's notes.
Essential Question(s)
How did imperialism affect Africa?
Snapshot
Engage
Students examine a map of Africa during the Age of Imperialism.
Explore
Students analyze an illustration that depicts the colonization of Africa by European countries.
Explain
Students use the Stop and Jot strategy to complete a reading about imperialism in Africa.
Extend
Students watch a short video about the history of rubber and how it relates to African colonization.
Evaluate
Students summarize how imperialism affected the continent of Africa and African people.
Instructional Formats
The term "Multimodality" refers to the ability of a lesson to be offered in more than one modality (i.e. face-to-face, online, blended). This lesson has been designed to be offered in multiple formats, while still meeting the same standards and learning objectives. Though fundamentally the same lesson, you will notice that the different modalities may require the lesson to be approached differently. Select the modality that you are interested in to be taken to the section of the course designed for that form of instruction.
Materials
Lesson Slides (attached)
Picture Deconstruction handout (attached; one per student)
Imperialism in Africa handout (attached; one per student)
Engage
10 Minute(s)
Use the attached Lesson Slides to introduce and guide the lesson. Display slide 3 and introduce the I Notice, I Wonder strategy to students. Provide a few minutes for students to examine the maps on the slide. Then, have students discuss with a partner something they notice and something they wonder from the maps.
After providing time for discussion, have several students share what they noticed and wondered. Move through slides 4–5 to review the essential question and learning objective.
Explore
20 Minute(s)
Display slide 6 and pass out the attached Picture Deconstruction handout to each student. Introduce students to the Photo or Picture Deconstruction strategy. Tell students to write down words, symbols, or people they see in each quadrant of the picture. Move through slides 7–10, pausing on each slide so students can write down what they see. Display slide 11 which shows the full picture. Have students write down words, symbols, or people they see in the full image.
Have students partner up to compare what they have written down. Move to slide 12 and provide time for students to discuss what the caption and description (Sleeping Sickness, Cutting a Continent Out From Under Him) of the picture might mean. Inform students that the reference to Sleeping Sickness might have been connected to an illness that was caused by the tsetse fly and was very common when the image was created.
Explain
20 Minute(s)
Pass out the attached Imperialism in Africa handout to each student. Display slide 13 and introduce students to the Stop and Jot strategy. Provide time for students to read the handout and take notes, then partner students up and have them share what notes they took on the handout.
Extend
10 Minute(s)
Display slide 14 and introduce students to the Surprising, Interesting, Troubling strategy. Move to slide 15 and have students use it as they watch a short video about the history of rubber. Play the video, How Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism.
After the video, move to slide 16. Provide time for students to talk to a partner about something they found surprising, interesting, and troubling about the video. Have several students share their thoughts.
Evaluate
10 Minute(s)
Display slide 17 and introduce students to the Six-Word Memoirs strategy. Have students write a six-word summary about how imperialism impacted the continent of Africa on a sticky note or piece of notebook paper. Review the responses to check for understanding of the lesson content.
Resources
K20 Center. (n.d.). I notice, I wonder. Strategies. https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/180
K20 Center. (n.d.). Photo or picture deconstruction. Strategies. https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/140
K20 Center. (n.d.). S-I-T (Surprising, interesting, troubling). Strategies. https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/926
K20 Center. (n.d.). Six-word memoirs. Strategies. https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/75
K20 Center. (n.d.). Stop and jot. Strategies. https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/168
PBS Origins. (2017, November 8). How your rubber ducky explains colonialism [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWjzOcIIxgM