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The beginning of the world and the first Oba

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Benin (900 to 1300CE) Religion

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Objectives

History

  • Study a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.
  • Children should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

English

  • Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.

Art

  • Use sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.

Lesson Planning

Find out about and role play the Edo speaking people's myths about the start of the world, and the beginnings of Benin. Take turns sketching the scenes that are acted out in sketchbooks.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about Benin's creation myths.
  • To act out the creation myths of Benin.
  • To sketch the role-played scenes.

Children will:

  • Use a sketchbook to record a scene in a dramatisation.
  • Improvise a short play based on historical information.
  • Explain what the people of Benin believed about how the world and Benin came into being .

Provided Resources

  • The Creation myths of Benin
  • How to use a sketchbook

You Will Need

  • A book
  • A bag of money
  • A snail shell
  • Sketchbooks

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