Mask with Headdress, Deangle, We/Dan, Côte d'lvoire or Liberia, 20th century

SUGGESTED PROJECTS 1. Geography and Topography Using photocopies of an African map, have students color in the different regions of West, North, East, and Central Africa and the Sahara Desert. Using supplementary materials such as atlases and encyclopedias, further discuss the characteristic geographies and topographies of these different regions. For more advanced students, also discuss ways that the environment in which a certain ethnic group lives shapes that group's way of life and the art they produce. 2. Library Skills For more advanced students, have each student (or a groups of students) select an African country and, using encyclopedia references, compile information about that country. Have students make oral presentations to the entire class about the different countries they researched. Pass out photocopies of an African map. At the start of each student's presentation have the rest of the class color in the particular country being discussed. 3. Diversity of Africa For younger students, do a story time with the book Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (see bibliography). While reading the book, locate on a large map of Africa the homelands of the different ethnic groups. Impress upon children the diverse characteristics of the various ethnic groups. PART 1-PAGE 4 OF 4

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