Lesson Planning
Use your sketches to model a replica shrine or religious scene.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To apply their knowledge of Benin's religion to making a model.
- To make a model of a religious scene.
Make a religious scene
Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of
Benin (900 to 1300CE) Religion
Objectives
History
- Study a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.
Art
- Use sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
- Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials, (for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay).
Provided Resources
- Some making techniques
You Will Need
- Sketchbooks
- Photos of the Igue Festival you recreated
- Mod roc
- Balloons
- Paint and PVA glue
- Red tissue paper
- Needles and thread
- Cardboard
- Newspaper
- Air-drying clay
- Old coat hangers
- Thin wire
Weblinks
How the brass plaques from Benin City are displayed in the British Museum from upload.wikimedia.org
Image of an ancestral altar to Oba Ovonramwen (the Oba who was sent into exile by the British in 1897) from africa.si.edu
