{"id":7341,"date":"2011-12-01T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?page_id=7341"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:48:46","slug":"which-continent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/teachingresources\/geography\/which-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple and powerful lesson opener: Which Continent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Help your students questions the assumptions they have about Africa using a simple photo viewing activity.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ask students to call to mind the world’s continents. \u00a0(You might have them list the continents and brainstorm words or pictures they associate for each continent in their learning logs.)<\/li>\n
  2. They will view photographs in either of the linked powerpoint below and attempt to identify the continent in which the photograph was taken. \u00a0This is a silent, written activity. \u00a0Have them number their papers based on the number of pictures. \u00a0You can tell them that some of the photographs may seem easy to identify and others more of a challenge, but simply to make the best educated guess they can using clues in the pictures.<\/li>\n
  3. Project the photograph and ask students to share their answers, and what clues in the photograph contributed to their responses. \u00a0(Here’s a good place to work in movement: Stand up if you thought this photo was Europe…)<\/li>\n
  4. Students will eventually discover the pattern: \u00a0all photographs are from Africa!<\/li>\n
  5. What made some photos easy to identify and others a challenge? \u00a0Another pattern typically surfaces: rural village scenes are generally correctly identified as Africa, whereas urban settings and images of wealth are attributed to Europe or North America. \u00a0What does this tell us about our current images of Africa? \u00a0Where do our images come from? \u00a0 Are these sources reliable? \u00a0What questions arise from this activity for further inquiry?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “Which Continent?” copyright 2011 Amy Lake. \u00a0Contact lake@kelloggschool.org<\/p>\n

    Which Continent? Powerpoint File \u00a0by Amy Lake,<\/a>\u00a02011, This file uses photos from Egypt and Tanzania, the two nations visited in 2010 with Fulbright\/Hayes Group Project studying Islam and Muslim Communities.<\/p>\n

    Which Continent? Powerpoint File updated by Elsa Wiehe, 2022<\/a>\u00a0This file uses photos from across the continent.<\/p>\n

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    Photos featured from Egypt and Tanzania by Amy Lake:<\/p>\n

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    Help your students questions the assumptions they have about Africa using a simple photo viewing activity. Ask students to call to mind the world’s continents. \u00a0(You might have them list the continents and brainstorm words or pictures they associate for each continent in their learning logs.) They will view photographs in either of the linked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15169,"featured_media":0,"parent":11181,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23865,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7341\/revisions\/23865"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}