International Trade Including Slave Trade

Curriculum details

Strand

Europeans in Ghana (Strand 3)

Sub-strand

International Trade Including Slave Trade (3.2)

Content standard

B2.3.2.1 - Understand that trade was the major reason why the Europeans settled in Ghana

Indicator

B2.3.2.1.1 - Describe how early trade was carried out between Ghanaians and Europeans

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

History Curriculum (Basic 1-6), 2019, p. 13

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Enquiry route: How was trade with the Europeans first carried out? How did the method of trade change with time? What items were traded? What towns emerged out of the trade between Ghanaians and Europeans?
1. Describe how early trade was carried out between Ghanaians and the Europeans
2. Organise learning corners with real items or pictures of items brought by the Europeans such as Gin, Gun, Gun Powder, Textiles, Tobacco, Iron Bars, Elephant tusks, Ivory, Gold.
3. Role play the barter trade in those items.
4. Use internet to identify countries with the items they brought that remained part of everyday Ghanaian life. e.g. the Dutch and wax prints.
5. Name the towns that emerged on the coast as a result of European trade with Ghanaians.