Geo Challenge: West Africa

December 3, 2024

Correlation to State Content Standard:

7.4:  Students analyze the geographic, political, and economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan  civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.

7.4.1: Study the Niger River and the relationship of vegetation zones of forest, savannah, and desert to trade in gold, salt, food, and slaves; and the growth of the Ghana and Mali empires.

ELD Standard:

P1: A1, A2, A3, C10, C12

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

 I am learning about the geography of Africa by:

1. Understanding the diverse topography of the continent.

2. Identifying key topography areas of the continent.

Common Core Literacy Standard         

  RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from   prior knowledge or opinions.

RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

            RH7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts 

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

WHST 6: Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiency.

WHST 8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources (primary and secondary sources).

WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.)

       SDAIE: TPS/EQ/Chunked Reading: Starter:  Students will read a chunked passage from the History Channel "This Day in History" and answer the essential question by annotating the evidence in the passage.  If no evidence is there to answer the passage, students will answer "Not enough information."

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

           SDAIE: Close Read/Direct Teach/Annotate/Talk to Text/Video Clips: Geo Challenge West Africa: Teacher will lead students in a close reading of the geographical challenge of West Africa. After each paragraph teacher will use Talk to the Text to help students annotate.  Teacher will clarify the passage and provide more information during the lecture. After each short passage, teacher will show a short video clip that goes along with the reading

Guided Practice (10 min.)

          SDAIE: TPS: Geo Challenge West Africa: Teacher and students will go over the answers to the annotations, storyboard, essential questions.  Students will make corrections as needed on their graphic organizer.

Independent Practice (20 min.)

    SDAIE: Visuals/Sentence Stem: West Africa: Students will revisit the four paragraph and create a storyboard that visually represents the claim of the paragraph.  Then students will answer the essential question by going back into the reading, identifying what paragraph they got their answer and completing the sentence stem.

SDAIE: Visual/EQ: Africa Map Skills: Students will use their textbook pages 212-213 to complete this section of their graphic organizer.  Students are being asked to identify the topography, rivers, oceans, city, and surrounding continents within Africa.

Homework.

            Ed Puzzle: Valle of the Whales, due Friday December 6, 2024 by 5 p.m.

Closure (3 min.)

1.     Clean up.

2.     Dismiss Class.

Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students

EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.

RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.

GATE:  Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.

January 10, 2022

Correlation to State Content Standards
            7.4:  Students analyze the geographic, political, and economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan  civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.

7.4.1: Study the Niger River and the relationship of vegetation zones of forest, savannah, and desert to trade in gold, salt, food, and slaves; and the growth of the Ghana and Mali empires.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

         Students will be able to:

1. Identify and Describe the physical features, vegetation zones, and the importance of rivers in Africa.

2. Compare and Contrast Africa's geography to that of the other sites of encounters that we have covered. 

Common Core Literacy Standard

RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

WHST 9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.):

        SDAIE: Whisper Read/Chunk: Starter: Students will work on their starter test.  They will read the chunked version of "This Day in History" and then explain the Topic of the paragraph.

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

        SDAIE: Close Read/Direct Teach/Annotate/Talk to Text: Geo Challenge West Africa: Teacher will lead students in a close reading of the geographical challenge of West Africa. After each paragraph teacher will use Talk to the Text to help students annotate.  Teacher will clarify the passage and provide more information during the lecture.

Guided Practice (10 min.)

         SDAIE: TPS: Geo Challenge West Africa: Teacher and students will go over the answers to the annotations, storyboard, essential questions.  Students will make corrections as needed on their graphic organizer.

Independent Practice (20 min.)

         SDAIE: Whisper Read/Metacognition/Annotate/Visuals/Chunking: Geo Challenge Africa:  Students will read sections of the introduction to the geography of Africa.  The chunked reading introduce students to the location of Africa, the types of vegetation zones it has, how humans have adapted to living there, and finally the pros and cons of Africa.  Students will then complete a storyboard section in which they will identify a picture to the main topic of each of the paragraphs.

Homework

         EdPuzzle: Africa Introduction due by Friday, January 13, 2023 at 5 p.m.

Closure ( 5 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Take question/comments/announcements

3.     Reset Edpuzzle for those needed.

4. Dismiss Class.