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Activities

Let´s create !

Now that you´ve met some women explorers it´s time to work in groups.

  • Each group has to choose one of them and create a multimedia poster (you can use  platforms like Glogster) or a presentation. In your project you have to gather information about her journeys: route map, transport, main incidents, her point of view about colonialism, her achievements....... Develop your creativity.
  • Your presentation could be assessed on the following rubric:

Element

 Excellent Accomplished Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
      Information        

 very relevant information

  relevant information  some relevant information          not relevant information      
Organisation  

  very clear

  and well organised              

   adecuate connection among ideas       weakly organised

 unorganised and  

 confusing
Format

 varied grammatical structure         

 without errors

 quite varied grammatical structure

 few errors

 repetitive structures 

 several errors

  difficult to understand 

 numerous errors
Creativity

 great creativity

 considerable creativity

 modest creativity

  little or no creativity

Put yourselves in their shoes

Each group member has to write a reflection as if you were the woman explorer you´ve worked about. It may be a letter to someone or to an institution, a page of a diary....it´s up to you. You can include your favourite one in your poster.

Think About It

When you compare your letters, do you find any differences between your reflections based on the mere fact of being a girl or a boy?

A Step Ahead

Because of our Euro-centric view of History, we forget all too often the wealth of other cultures in the world.The power of curiosity led our women explorers to distant lands but... what about your curiosity? We talk all the time about the European powers, but do you know that the Mali Empire was the largest in West Africa and  influenced profoundly the culture of West Afica through the spread of its language, laws and customs? Read about this African power.