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Resource Centre
The resource box contains a huge variety of information and artefacts from Ghana that can be used with many areas of the national curriculum. It also contains worksheets, quizzes and schemes of work (list of contents). The resource box can be hired on a weekly basis allowing the whole school to benefit.
The children are able to get a real feel for African culture and traditions. They are able to use all their senses in the experience; see the wide range of photographs covering landscape, family life, food and school (see Chief Chebe's village); hear the lively highlife and reggae music, traditional drumming and xylophone; touch the texture of the wooden crafts and masks, woven fabrics and wide selection of beads and jewellery; smell the variety of dried African foods that are used in stews and taste African dishes (Ghanaian recipe booklet is included), exotic fruits and experience the taste of fair-trade chocolate. The children will even be able to try on different African costumes and national dress and hats and head scarves worn by Muslims.
Details of Resource Box Hire
The cost of hire is £95 for one week hire. The total cost of delivery and collection to anywhere in the UK is £20. To hire the resource box please email or phone (01236 823869 or 07876 772022).
Hire the resource box for a week and then culminate the experience with an African drumming workshop. The children love playing the djembe drums; they quickly gain confidence in their own ability and really enjoy learning the different beats and playing in a circle.
The children can also showcase their own work from the resource box and ask any questions. The whole African experience will increase awareness of this diverse world and encourage respect for all.
Please download our Teachers Pack (Adobe Acrobat) with information on family life in Ghana, word search (foods found in an African market), market crossword, music decode worksheet, colouring sheets and Ghana quiz:
Links with the National Curriculum
The resource box can be used in all subjects of the national curriculum especially in the area of inclusion and respect for all.
Some examples from the QCA are listed below:
Masks and batik work (key stage 2)
Respect for all: African arts (key stage 3, years 7 to 9)
Citizenship (slideshow African School)
Useful website links for teachers:
Oxfam's Cool Planet for Teachers
Oxfam's Cool Planet for teachers has lots of information about Ghana and issues such as fair trade and sustainability. The children and diversity section has Wake Up World! which compares the daily lives of children in Ghana, Russia, Brazil and India.
www.globalgang.org.uk/planetteacher/fairtrade Christian Aid website for teachers discusses the fair trade of chocolate from Ghana and also snail farming: www.globalgang.org.uk/planetteacher/health
www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html stories from around the world including three anansi stories (Anansi and the turtle; Anansi firefly story & Anansi tries to steal all the wisdom in the world)
Journey through Africa and learn about the animals and people of the desert, savannah and rainforest.
www.pbskids.org/africa/ My world shows a secondary school in Accra, Ghana; play a thumb piano; make an African mask and folktale.
www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm Anansi website with an on-line game.
Pupils at Kanton Secondary School, Ghana
Cape Coast Castle used by the British during the slave trade.
List of Contents of Resource Box
African arts and crafts: selection of wooden masks and crafts, fertility doll, pottery figure and batik picture.
African jewellery: stone necklaces, bangles, earrings and a selection of African glass trade beads with information sheets on how the beads are made.
Clothing: head scarves and hats worn by Muslim women and men, selection of African outfits for pupils and teachers, smock dresses worn in the north of Ghana and a sample of kente cloth the traditional material of the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. Folder and activity sheets for Ghanaian cloth.
Music: small hand drum, calabash shaker, basket shaker, selection of cd’s and tapes on African music (traditional drumming, xylophone, highlife, reggae, and popular Ghanaian artists and bands).
Languages: List of the most common Ghanaian languages and some text books in Sissali (language spoken by the Sissala tribe in Northern Ghana)
Books and educational materials: Activity folder (Daily Life in Ghana, Market Day, African Beads, African Masks, Chocolate and Fair Trade) map of Ghana, pictures for photocopying, selection of Ghanaian textbooks and story books for schools, Ghana The Bradt Travel Guide by Philip Briggs.
Food: List of common goods found in an African village market, Ghanaian recipes, selection of dried African foods, grinding bowl, cooking pot, washing cloth, key soap.
Photographs: wildlife, traditional dress, music and dance, types of housing, village markets and foods, schools and education, arts and crafts, farming and crops, other types of employment, beaches and fishing, castles, tourism in Ghana. Click here for photos of life in an African village.
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Tel: 01236 823869 Mob: 07876 772022
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