Georgia SS7G1.b
The Standard
Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Locate selected features of Africa.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the six assigned countries on both world and regional maps of Africa. They use coastlines, borders, nearby countries, and physical features as location clues.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately label all six countries on an unlabeled map. They can also describe each location using clues such as region, coastline, or neighboring countries.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often confuse the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Republic of the Congo, Nigeria with Niger, and Sudan with South Sudan. Some treat South Africa as only a region rather than a country.
How to Assess It
- Give students blank world and regional maps with a six-country word bank. Ask them to label each country correctly on both maps.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs laminated maps, dry-erase markers, and country-name cards to place and check using an atlas.
Ask students to write directions for finding one assigned country using borders, coastlines, regions, or nearby physical features.
Play a map relay where teams take turns placing one country label correctly on a large blank map.
Provide six recent news headlines, then have students pin each story to its country on a classroom map.
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