Lesson plan
African Regions and their Folk Tales
GeoLiteracy
ELL
Description
In this lesson, students will use research skills to compare the characteristics of three major natural regions of Africa: the desert, the rain forest, and the savanna. Students will also establish how the people who live there have affected these regions. Then students will listen to African folk tales from the three regions and describe the setting of each story.Duration
2-4 class periodsAuthor
Cheryl
Wiens
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information4: The physical and human characteristics of places
5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
7: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface
8: The characteristics and distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface
14: How human actions modify the physical environment
Teacher Instructions
WiensAfricaT.pdf
(216.42 KB)
Student Materials
WiensAfricaS.pdf
(131.43 KB)
AFREG.pdf
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AFREGNM.pdf
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WiensAfricaStuEx.pdf
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Materials To Assist Teachers and English Language Learners
WiensAfricaV.pdf
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