Georgia SS7G1

Social Studies7th GradeAfrica

Georgia Standard (Element Cluster)

Locate selected features of Africa.

Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies

Cluster contents

SS7G1 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students locate the Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest, major rivers, lakes, Atlas Mountains, and Kalahari Desert. They also locate Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a blank map and word bank, a student places each feature and country in the correct area with few or no errors. The student can describe locations using terms such as north of, south of, inland, coastal, and along a river.
Common Misconceptions: Students often swap the Niger, Nile, and Congo rivers or treat river names as countries. They may blur the Sahara, Sahel, and savanna into one region, or confuse Sudan with South Sudan. Some also confuse the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Republic of the Congo.
How to Assess It: Give students a blank Africa map and a word bank with Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Nile River, Congo River, Sahara, and Lake Victoria. Have them label all eight and write one relative-location sentence.

Lesson moves

On a printed outline map, use blue yarn for rivers, textured paper for deserts, and labels for countries, mountains, lakes, and regions.
Ask students to explain how they would distinguish the Sahara, Sahel, savanna, and tropical rain forest on an unlabeled map.
Run a map relay where teams draw a location card, place it correctly, and earn a bonus point for a relative-location clue.
Plan a Cairo-to-Cape Town route, then mark which listed countries, rivers, deserts, lakes, and vegetation regions travelers might encounter.

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