Platinum Social Sciences
Grade 6
Teaching Plan
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GEOGRAPHY
Annual Teaching Plan Term 1
Topic 1 Map Skills
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Latitude and longitude
4 hours
Scale
4 hours
Atlases, global statistics and current
events
4 hours
Unit 1 Latitude and longitude on a globe (degrees)
Unit 2 Hemispheres
Unit 3 Latitude and longitude on a map (degrees) –
from a globe to a flat map
Unit 4 Concept of scale
Unit 5 Measuring straight-line distances 4 hours
between cities on a South African and world
Unit 6 Atlases, global statistics and current events
Unit 7 Our province in an atlas: What information can
a map give about a province?
Unit 8 Global statistics
Unit 9 Locate major current events or places in the
news on a map
Term assessment exemplar
3 hours
Annual Teaching Plan Term 2
Topic 2 Trade
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 Why people trade
Why people trade
2 hours
Unit 2 What people trade
Why people trade
2 hours
Unit 3 Resources and their values
Resources and their values
4 hours
Unit 4 Fair trading
Unit 5 The human cost of unfair trade –work and
exploitation
Fair trading
Term assessment exemplar
4 hours
3 hours
Annual Teaching Plan Term 3
Topic 3 Climate and vegetation around the world
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 Climate around the world
People and provinces in South Africa
3 hours
Unit 2 Tropical rainforests
Tropical rainforests
3 hours
Unit 3 Hot deserts
Hot deserts
3 hours
Unit 4 Coniferous forests
Coniferous forests
3 hours
Term assessment exemplar
2 hours
2
Annual Teaching Plan Term 4
Topic 4 Population: why people live in different places
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 People and provinces in South Africa
People and provinces in South Africa
3 hours
Why people live where they do (South
Africa)
5 hours
People around the world
4 hours
Unit 2 Why people live where they do
Unit 3 Rural and urban areas
Unit 4 People around the world
Unit 5 The city of Rio de Janeiro: a case 4 hours
study of a city
Term assessment exemplar
3 hours
HISTORY
Annual Teaching Plan Term 1
Topic 1 An African kingdom long ago in southern Africa: Mapungubwe
Units
Unit 1 Changes in societies in the Limpopo Valley
Unit 2 Mapungubwe: the first state in southern Africa
1220 – 1300
Unit 3 Golden rhinoceroses and other golden objects
‘symbols of royal power and political leadership’
Unit 4 Trade across Africa and across the Indian
Ocean and beyond
Unit 5 Today: World Heritage Site and Order of
Mapungubwe
Unit 6 Great Zimbabwe
Unit 7 A European explorer: Marco Polo
Topic
Changes in societies in the Limpopo
Valley between 900 AD and 1300 AD
Settlements in the Limpopo Valley
before Mapungubwe: K2 and Schroda
Mapungubwe: first state in southern
Africa
Time Allocation
1 hour
6 hours
Change and continuity in the East
Coast trade with settlements inland
1 hour
Great Zimbabwe
European explorer in Asia at the same
time as Mapungubwe was at its height
Term assessment exemplar
3 hours
3 hours
Annual Teaching Plan Term 2
Topic 2 Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 Reasons for European exploration
Reasons for European exploration
Unit 2 Case studies: The contributions of Leonardo
da Vinci and Galileo
The European Renaissance
8 hours
Trade and making a profit
4 hours
Unit 3 New ideas and knowledge
Unit 4 Trade and making a profit
Unit 5 The Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Term assessment exemplar
3 hours
3
Annual Teaching Plan Term 3
Topic 3 Democracy and citizenship
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 How people govern themselves in a
democracy: our national government
How people govern themselves in a
democracy: our national government
7 hours
Unit 2 Rights and responsibilities of citizens in a
democracy
Project: Research and write a biography
History research project for Grade 6: A
biography of a South African who has
contributed to building democracy
Unit 3 Children’s rights and responsibilities
Children’s rights and responsibilities
2 hours
Unit 4 National symbols
National symbols since 1994
2 hours
Term assessment exemplar
2 hours
Annual Teaching Plan Term 4
Topic 4 Medicine through time
Units
Topic
Time Allocation
Unit 1 Indigenous healing in South Africa
Indigenous healing in South Africa
3 hours
Some modern western scientific
medical discoveries
7 hours
Link between holistic and western
forms of healing today
2 hours
Unit 2 Some modern Western scientific medical
discoveries
Unit 3 Case study: A breakthrough in surgery: the
first heart transplant
Unit 4 Link between holistic and Western forms of
healing today
Term assessment exemplar
3 hours
4