Akan Cultural Symbols Project 

 

AKAN CULTURAL SYMBOLS PROJECT
LESSON PLANS


Gold pendant encoding the biribi wo soro - there is something in the heavens symbol

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The Asante Golden Stool (Sika Adwa)

 

 

Akokonan - Chicken feet
Adinkra cloth symbol


Adwo - peace
Adinkra cloth symbol

 


Young weaver using a simple loom

 

This web site has been provided as educational resource site. We offer here some few samples of lesson plans for use by schools. Some of these links require the use of Acrobat Reader. 

If any one has any lesson plans they want to contribute to this project, kindly send that together with any comments and suggestions to akanart@marshall.edu. Your contribution will be acknowledged accordingly. Thank you.

Here are some lesson plans from the web:

Stephanie Hnesh:   
Textile convey meaning through the use of pattern and color 
2nd Grade Art and Social Studies

Rhonda Sternhagen
Symbols in Textiles
2nd Grade Art

Lori Powell
African textile designs are created by weaving or stamping
Kindergarten Art

M. Mihalopoulos
African patterns and symbols
K-6 Art

N. Wehrheim
Ceramics - making clay containers
5th and 6th Grades Art

Created and developed by:
Joan Cohen Jones, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
with
Diane Ashe, Atlanta Public Schools
Priscilla Golley, Georgia State University

Craft patterns and Geometry
3rd-5th Grades Mathematics

Tabitha Ward
Ancient Africa Lesson Plans
Various Grade Levels

Building a Loom for Weaving Kente Cloth: This is a guide to building a strip-cloth loom as used by Kente weavers in Ghana.

Africa in our curriculum
Annie Sirkin
African Crafts
Various Grade Levels

Louise Meyer
Weaving
Various Grade Levels

African Symbols and Folktales in Language Arts.
Middle and High School Grade Levels

Adinkra-Inspired Pillows Lesson Plan
Grade Level: Secondary

The Art of African Storytelling
Grade Level: Secondary

Making a Ghanaian Adinkra Cloth
Grade Level: Secondary

Ashanti Adinkra Symbols
Grade Level: K-5

Adinkra Cloth Designs
Grade Level: Various grades

 


 

 

 

AKAN CULTURAL SYMBOLS PROJECT

Date last edited: 10/14/2009