Africa Mini-Inquiry

Each year Hillcrest/LEADS has Culture Day.  Each classroom chooses a culture to study, and Room 408 chose Africa.

We immersed ourselves in sources about Africa and recorded our learning.

We recorded our facts on data sheets.

We loved sharing our learning with each other!

We especially loved reading the Anansi tales...stories about the trickster spider in African tales.

We also read a book about the places, people, animals, and life in Africa.

An eye-opening book was definitely The Water Princess by Susan Verde.

We realized that many people in our world do not have access to water.

Here is the story behind the book.

Here is a read aloud video of the book. 

Next, we each chose a flag of an African country to post on our classroom door.

What cultures have you experienced?