1. SOCIAL STUDIES GRADE SEVEN – AFRICA
Natural resources
Geography
Specialized economies vs. diversified economies
Africa
Government instability
Current Issues
Geographical features and their effect on people of African countries
Environmental Problems
Disease/health concerns
Cultural Conflict
History
The Brochure
Project
UN help to struggling African countries
Effects of imperialism, slave trade, colonization, and independence on African countries
Cultural traits of different African countries as they compare to each other and our country
Debate responsibility of world to aid
Essential Understandings/Concepts:
• CT.CK Evaluate the cultural contributions of a variety of past and present civilizations.
• CT.CK Analyze how cultural differences sometimes contributed to conflict among civilizations or nations.
• CT.CK Identify selected countries and determine the advantages and challenges created by their geography.
• CT.CK Examine geographic factors that help explain historical events and contemporary issues.
• CT.CK Assess how ideas/religions affected migration in different regions (e.g. Crusades, South African trek, founding of Israel).
• CT.CK Evaluate the positive and/or negative impacts of mass human migrations on both people and a nation/ region.
• CT.CK Analyze the factors that led to the rise of different types of governments worldwide.
• CT.CK Analyze and critique examples where governments in other nations have changed through violent or peaceful means.
• CT.CK Analyze how resources or lack of resources influenced a nation/region’s development (e.g. diversification vs. one-crop economies).
• CT.CK Identify economic resources in the world and analyze their relationship to international trade.
• CT.CK Analyze the impact of specialization on production and trade.
• CT.CK Analyze the relationship among culture, government and social systems in various countries.
Vocabulary:
Imperialism Colonization
Ethnic/ethnicity Tribal
Genocide Nile River
Congo River Rainforest
Sahara Desert Sahel
Rift Valley Desertification
Erosion Famine
Malnutrition Developing
Developed Specialized economy
Oral tradition Swahili
Infant Mortality Rate Apartheid
Nelson Mandela Diversified economy
Slave trade Triangle trade
Subsistence farming Foreign aid
United Nations Underdeveloped economy
Humanitarian Diversity