{"id":2722,"date":"2021-10-01T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:25:25","slug":"africa-unit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Africa Unit Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Africa Unit Study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Materials Used<\/strong><br>Art History Vol.1, Stokstad (Other research options will work as well)<br>National Geographic World Atlas (Any Atlas should work as well)<br>Trail Guide to World Geography, Geography Matters, Wiggers<br>Geography through Art, U.S and International Art Projects for Kids, Jeffus &amp;Aramini<br>Eat Your Way Around the World<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Day 1<\/strong><br>Trace the Continent of Africa &#8211; Atlas<br>Research answers to Question from Day 1 (Week 14 Africa) from Trial Guide to World Geography.  Use answers to label information on the traced continent of Africa.<br>Used Trail Guide Points of Interest to label traced African Map<br><br><strong>Day 2<\/strong><br>Spend a little time  on line researching African Masks.<br>Read out loud from Art History book about Egypt Mythology.  (I was pleased to hear how much JV remembered from the Ancient Egypt Pocket Book project and from the Story of the World Book 1. )<br>Geography Though Art- Make a paper mache African Mask- We used plaster strips.  You can find these at Hobby Lobby or on-line.  <br>Cooked Gebna Makleya (Egypt) from Eat Your Way Around the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Day 3<\/strong><br>Hieroglyphics from Geography through Art<br>Egyptian Style Drawing from Geography through Art<br>Paint African mask if  dry.<br>Cooked Biram Ruz from Eat Your Way Around the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Day 4<\/strong><br>Finish African Mask<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Geography Art and Kids Cooking | Eat Your Way Around the World\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9PJTMFazKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Africa Unit Study Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_4om0WTIvMQ?start=21&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Highlights or our week of Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in a brief four day introduction to Africa Unit Study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[91,92,94],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum","category-homeschooling","tag-art","tag-geography","tag-kids-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}